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Ammunition transferred from USS Tennessee, BB-43, to USS Phelps, DD-360, during invasion of Saipan in World War II

Battleship USS Tennessee, BB-43, crew handles lines as a destroyer comes alongside during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands, in World War 2. Ammunition transferred from the Tennessee to destroyer USS Phelps, DD-360. Sailors carry projectiles and slide powder cases down a plank to the USS Phelps.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, June 18
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035314
An American Marine handles a Japanese gun sighting device and Japanese light machine gun during invasion of Saipan

An U.S. Marine handles a captured Japanese gun sighting or artillery sighting device device during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. Marine with captured Japanese light machine gun on the ground.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, June 15
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035337
Story of the U.S. Navy Seabees (Fighting construction men). History, recruitment, training, and deployment of the Seabees.

History and story of the Seabees. Admiral Moreell, chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks speaks in his office in Washington, DC. A view of the U.S. Capitol building through his window. He gives a brief history of the Seabees and introduces the film. Retrospective footage shows a formation of Japanese warplanes. Views of Honolulu, Hawaii, Midway, Taviti, and Wake Islands. U.S. civilian construction workers. Hickam and Wheeler fields, in Hawaii, being bombed by Japanese airplanes during attack on December 7, 1941. U.S. Navy ships in Pearl Harbor burning. U.S. casualties on stretchers. American soldiers raising the flag with fire and smoke behind them. Seebee recruitment poster. Volunteers going to enlist. Navy Seabee trainees learning military and construction skills. Practicing methods of rapid construction for combat zones. Trainees negotiating obstacle courses. Amphibious assault training. Seabee units parading in dress whites, followed by Seabees in some of their combat vehicles: DUKWs, construction graders, and bulldozers. U.S. Navy sailors loading onto railroad train cars as a newly trained battalion of Seabees leaving training camp by train. A band plays seeing them off. Seabees loading up at a port of embarkation. A troop ship seen. The troop ship moving away from the wharf, with help from tugboat. (World War II period).

Location: Davisville Rhode Island USA
Date: 1944, December
Duration: 7 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044964
U.S. troops fire artillery guns, rockets and grenades to take out enemies hidden behind pillboxes in Garapan on Saipan.

The joint force assault by the American Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force against Japanese on Garapan, the capital city of Saipan in the Mariana Islands, during World War 2. U.S. artillery guns are fired at Japanese forces. U.S. troops carry their injured men under cover of a tank. Rockets are fired to take down enemy snipers. Incendiary grenades are fired to smoke the enemies out of their pillboxes. A Japanese soldier is taken as prisoner.

Location: Garapan Saipan Mariana Islands
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050446
U.S. marines on Saipan after securing it during World War II

U.S. Marines on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War 2. A shirtless U.S. marine poses in front of a truck. A wounded marine carried on a litter to a dock. Marines and vehicles seen at base of so-called "Suicide Cliff" on Saipan. Marines gathered on and around a U.S. M3 Gun Motor Carriage (75mm). Two marines carry a fallen comrade (completely covered on a litter). View of marines gathered on the beach, around several Japanese prisoners seated beneath some sort of Japanese structure supporting a scale.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, July
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050870
U.S. forces raise American flag over Saipan and senior U.S. officers converse afterwards, during World War II

Scene opens showing American troops assenbled in a clearing on Saipan for a formal flag raising ceremony, following the defeat of Japanese forces defending the island in World War 2. Camera pans over the assembled officers and troops. All salute as the flag is raised by military police. View of the American flag atop the flag pole. After the ceremony, Some of the senior American officers present stand about conversing. Admiral Raymond Spruance, Commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet, is seen wearing a pith helmet. Close to him is Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, Commander, V Amphibious Corps. Also seen, in fatigues, is Major General Sanderford Jarman, Commanding General, U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division. The remainder of the film shows them and other senior officers mingling and conversing with one another.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, July
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050871
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