Remains of United States Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress that crashed in Tinian, Northern Marianas Islands during World War 2. It was B-29 number 42-65283, nicknamed "Big Wheel," from the 9th Bomb Group, 99th Bomb Squadron. Opening scene shows remains of two engines and bent propellers from the crashed B-29. Ocean and a B-29 coming in for a landing are seen in background. Two destroyed engines and props along with partially intact empennage, are the only recognizable parts of the airplane. Aircraft debris is scattered close to the beach. Three U.S. Army Air Force personnel stand looking over the wreckage.
General Carl Spaatz in Tinian, Mariana Island during World War 2. A Military Police officer salutes as a jeep arrives. U.S. Army officers step from the jeep. Four officers stand under a tree. A U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) B-29 aircraft with a sign on the fuselage that reads ' Goin Jessie. ' General Carl Spaatz , USAAF Chief of Staff, pins a Legion of Merit medal on Master Sergeant Einar (Curly) Klabo. Klabo salutes the General. Crew men lift Klabo on their shoulders. ( Note: "Goin Jessie" flew 50 combat missions with the 9th Bomb Group, 5th Squadron, while M/Sgt Klabo was her crew chief. She never had an abort.)
Supplements from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War 2 Beach at Makin island with damaged palm trees and debris. Hulks of sunken Japanese ships in water. A damaged Japanese building at the coast. A fuel dump camouflaged by palm trees. Wrecked Japanese buildings. United States troops, of the 27th Infantry Division gathered in a wrecked Japanese building. A soldier stands near a medium caliber Japanese coastal gun. He picks up a shell and holds it over his head.
Supplements from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. troops of the 27th Infantry Division advance along the water front in Makin Island. Dead Japanese soldiers lying on ground. LST (Landing Ship Tank) and a LSD (Landing Ship Dock) at anchor. Dead Japanese soldiers lying in an anti tank trench. A soldier stands with a native as he points at the trench.
Supplements from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A bulldozer hauls equipment on a beach at Makin Island. Bulldozer hauls material in cargo nets out of LSM (Landing Ship, Mechanized). A fighter flies overhead at night. Silhouetted palm trees.
A flotilla of U.S. landing craft, filled with U.S. Army troops from the 27th Infantry Division approach the beach at Japanese-held Makin Island during World War 2. Some of the landing craft (Higgins boats) are from the Attack Transport ship, USS Leonard Wood (APA-12) and others are from the USS Calvert (APA-32). A Benson-Livermore class (AKA Benson-Gleaves class) Destroyer is visible offshore. As the landing craft beach, the troops wade ashore, with difficulty, through hip-deep water, in places. Back on one of the transport ships, sailors lower a bulldozer for transport to the beach. They also lower rolls of matting over the side. These cargoes are seen at the beachhead, as well as a Sherman tank moving through the surf onto the rocky shore.
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