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Japanese fire knee mortars and rifles and launch Banzai attack in Corregidor island, Philippines during World War 2

Japanese troops in Corregidor island, Philippines during the Battle of Corregidor in World War II. Japanese fire knee mortars. Japanese snipers fire rifles in the jungle. Artillery being fired as Japanese infantry advance. Group of Japanese soldiers yelling a Banzai battle cry together from atop a mountain. U.S. prisoners standing next to a Japanese soldiers and a jeep beside a bridge.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675067857
2nd Marine Division aboard transport ships headed to Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, during World War II

U.S. Marines boarding troop transport ships in World War 2. A line of the transport ships underway in the Pacific, en route to Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. The Destroyer, USS Frazier (DD-607) seen close to port, astern, with a line extending to the transport ship. A sealed packet of orders for the transport and the Marines is delivered over the line. Scene shifts to an officer briefing marines with help of a large relief map of Betio in the Tarawa atoll. The map is complete, in every detail, down to models of structures there. Marines are seen belting machine gun ammunition and test firing their weapons. Marines on deck exercise doing calisthenics. Officer briefing Coast Guard and Navy coxswains who will be operating landing craft during the amphibious assault. Religious service being conducted on deck by a military Chaplains, on evening of November 19, 1943. Catholic chaplain, Father Francis W. Kelly, Chaplain, U.S.N.R. saying Mass, for marines. (Narrator comments that many of these Marines were killed the next morning.)

Date: 1943, November 19
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069058
LCMs (Landing Craft Mechanized) underway in sea and Corregidor in the Philippine Islands is under bombardment.

Bombardment on Corregidor in the Philippine Islands during World War II. LCMs (Landing Craft Mechanized) underway at sea. Corregidor under bombardment in the background. Other ships underway at sea in the background. Mountains in the far background.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070640
U.S. Marine Corps take and send messages in radio receiving central truck at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands (WW2)

United States Marine Corps Communication activities at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in World War II. Radio receiving central truck in operation. Marine with earphones while typing and taking messages. Truck has open sides and canvas top. Radio receiving set, Marine copying message on typewriter. Marine sends message on telegraph, other Marine's hands in foreground. Marine operates radio receiver. Antenna wires. Radio receiving central truck in field.

Date: 1943, January 1
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071781
U.S. Marine Navajo Code talker operates TCS radio in MZ radio jeep, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in World War II.

U.S. Marine Corps communication activities at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in World War 2. Radio retransmittion station. Two Marines operate BC-659 radio. View of radio length hook up, and output antenna. Native American Indian Navajo code talker speaking on TCS radio set in the back of a U.S.M.C. MZ radio jeep.

Date: 1943, January 1
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071782
Switchboard operator works and Marines at command post area rest and talk on telephone at Peleliu, Palau Islands.

U.S. Marine Corps communication activities at Peleliu, Palau Islands. Switchboard at Division Command Post (CP). Switchboard operator sitting in the foreground. Wiring diagram showing disposition of wire, switchboards, and code name of units. Marine stringing wire on tree which has a large number of wires loading to switchboard, already attached to it. Group of CP Marines sitting around and resting. They talk and smoke. Tent in the background. Area around CP. Marines sitting around shelter, tent pitched, ocean in the background. Marines in dugouts. A Marine uses field telephone.

Date: 1945, June 30
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071784