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United States Marines stack shells and fire a howitzer at Japanese positions in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II.

United States Marines in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. The Marines set up a bumper log for a pack howitzer. One of the Marine digs in for the bumper log. The carriage of a 75 mm howitzer on the ground. The muzzle of the howitzer as it is fired. The Marines in the foreground with ear phones on. A Marine unloads crated 75 mm shells off DUKWs (Amphibious vehicles). They stack the shells.

Date: 1944, July 21
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064606
U.S. Marines demonstrate captured Japanese artillery, machine guns and flame throwers in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.

A film about Allied campaign against the Japanese in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. U.S. Marines demonstrate Japanese weapons. A Marine fires a Japanese flame thrower. A Japanese artillery piece. The Marines fire machine guns and artillery.

Date: 1944
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066964
Aircraft spotters spot Japanese bombers and they are shot down in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II.

A film about Allied campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific, at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Colonel Thomas of the United States Marine Corps briefs U.S. Marines about an operational plan. The Marines loaded in jeeps and command cars advance inland. They move across a jungle and then onto a hilltop ridge that later was named "Blood Ridge" due to fierce fighting there. A man looks through a sighting instrument at an observation post. Gun emplacements and foxholes are established. A Marine looks at a picture of an American girl that he has at his campsite. U.S. Marines fire a 105 mm gun. An aircraft spotter looks through a sighting instrument and spots Japanese aircraft in flight. Japanese bombers in flight. Antiaircraft guns are fired by American forces. Japanese airplane is hit. The airplane plunges toward the ground with smoke streaming behind it and the airplane crashes. Machine guns being fired at the Japanese aircraft. Another Japanese aircraft is hit and the aircraft crashes into water. Men at Henderson Field. Wrecked American aircraft. Aerial view of Henderson Field.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066966
Soldiers on a U.S. war ship destroy Japanese aircraft flying off the coast of the Northern Mariana Islands.

A U.S. Task Force destroys Japanese aircraft in the Northern Mariana Islands during World War II. The Japanese aircraft in flight. A U.S. war ship in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. soldiers at a gun barrel. Explosions in the air. A Japanese aircraft catches fire and plunges in the sea.

Date: 1944, March 20
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067067
Peleliu, Palau Islands, during WW II. U.S. Marine gun crew cleans M1A1 155 mm gun. A marine reads a letter.

Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. United States Marine gun crew push swab through the bore of their M1A1 155 mm gun to clean it. The marines,stripped to the waist, push the swab back and forth. View down a line of marines, cleaning the gun with swab on a pole. Hands of a marine as he cleans parts of the gun. Marine with the earphones on while reading a private letter. He jumps and starts waving his letter with joy after getting the news that his wife gave birth to a baby. Marines crowded around him as they pat and congratulate him. The marine with earphones on and letter in hand gives cigars to other marines. The marines laugh.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067107
U.S. Marine Gun battery firing M1A1 155mm long gun at Japanese positions in darkness in Peleliu, Palau Islands.

U.S. Marines operating in Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. Blackness of night interrupted by occasional flashes from United States Marine Corps gun battery firing M1A1 155mm long gun at Japanese positions in hills to the North.

Date: 1944
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067108