Us Army Air Forces B-29 Super Fortress of the 73rd Bomb Wing (Tail Code: "V Square 29") comes in for landing. Plane parks on the ramp. U.S. Brigadier General Emmett O'Donnell, Vice-Admiral John Hoover and Brigadier General Haywood Hansell study a map, leaning it against one of the plane's propellers. General O'Donnell walks over to converse with Major Robert Morgan, who is well-known as the pilot of the B-17 "Memphis Belle" that flew 25 missions over Germany in the European theater. He now flies B-29s with the 73rd Wing in the Pacific theater. (World War II period).
Location of Saipan on an animated map. Japanese planes attack B-29 base in Saipan, Pacific Theater. Many United States B-29 bomber aircraft destroyed. Fire and heavy black smoke rises up. Troops try to extinguish fire by throwing water through buckets and hose. Japanese planes attack second time. Jeeps pass on the airfield. Wrecked and burnt planes on base. (World War II period).
Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers bomb factories and other targets in Formosa Island (present day Taiwan) and return to their base in Saipan, during World War II. Crew members attach guided bombs at dawn to the bombers. The bombers take off. Flying over Formosa Island over clouds they drop bombs on Japanese targets. Antiaircraft guns fired. The B-29 lands after a successful bombing mission. Crew of the B-29 'Tokyo Rose', first plane to fly over Japanese positions, honored at the Saipan base. Insignia on the nose of the plane. Brigadier General Hansel attaches medals on the uniforms of the crew members.
United States forces in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. Soldiers advance across the hillside as huge columns of smoke rise. Bomb damaged jungle area. Smoke rises in the background. A flame thrower tank and soldiers advance across the field. A U.S. Marine works on the nose of a Japanese aerial bomb embedded in the ground. Another Marine puts a chain around the bomb and a vehicle pulls out the bomb from the earth. Bomb being loaded into a truck.
United States forces in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. Marines stand outside a damaged building. The U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Division hospital building. A Marine seated on the bonnet of an ambulance jeep. Marines get off the jeep. Another jeep towing a trailer arrives at the hospital. A Marine seated at a desk inside a tent. Marines outside the tent. Men around a jeep. A sign outside the hospital reads 'Receiving'. A jeep ambulance driven away. A jeep ambulance backs up. A wounded Marine on a litter being carried into a first aid tent.
United States forces in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. Wounded U.S. Marines outside a tent at the 2nd Marine Division Hospital. Soldiers in a chow line served food. Injured Marines in chow line. Tents in the background.
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