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General Vandegrift describes the Guadalcanal campaign and shows the landing, war scenes and Japanese prisoners in Guadalcanal (WW2)

Guadalcanal campaign in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. U.S. Marine Corps General Alexander Archer Vandegrift describes the Guadalcanal campaign. Ships at sea. Planes in flight. Landing craft heads towards shore. Allied troops disembark landing crafts. Men carry cartons and load onto truck. U.S. flag is hoisted and soldiers salute. Japanese prisoners march and sit on ground. A soldier climbs up a palm tree. Soldiers are decorated with badges. Wounded soldiers are at 'Hospital Station'. Dead Japanese soldiers lying on ground. Smoke trail rises. Air Force personnel beside aircraft. A plane lands. Sign on aircraft: 'Spook', ' Leis Lady' and 'Boomerang'. Aircraft in flight. Fleet underway at sea. A formation of planes in flight.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072039
U.S. Marines fight against fanatical Japanese defenders in the Battle of Tarawa during World War II.

U.S. Marine Corps struggle during Battle of Tarawa, in the Pacific, during World War II. Marines of the United States 2nd Marine Division Corps move carefully and stay low as they advance on the island and fire at Japanese well-entrenched in bunkers and hiding in trees.Marines employ grenades, flame throwers and mortars against the Japanese and occupy some Japanese bunkers. Marine casualties being carried on stretchers. Several Japanese soldiers break out of their fortification and run for safety as marines fire at them. Marines check for snipers and throw grenades, as they advance very cautiously toward abandoned Japanese positions on the Tarawa beach.

Location: Tarawa Gilbert Islands
Date: 1943, November 22
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072663
U.S. army bulldozer, caterpillar, scraper being operated to repair Carney Airstrip in Guadalcanal during World War II.

U.S. Army Air Forces bombers and airmen on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. USAAF B-24 Liberator bombers and trucks parked on a strip. Framework of the hangar. Motor of an aircraft. Two members of crew prepare elevator control of B-24. Reparation of Carney Airstrip in progress. A truck pulls landing strip mats on trailer. A bulldozer in operation. A stationary B-24 in the background. The bulldozer pushes a pile of landing mats. Caterpillar, scraper and power shovel work. A pile of discarded mesh landing mats.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1943, September 7
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074592
Commander of U.S. 13th Air Force General Nathan Twining pins medal on Sergeant Myers in Guadalcanal during World War II.

U.S. Army airmen on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. EMs (Enlisted Men) stand in four columns. Commander of U.S. 13th Air Force General Nathan Twining and officers stand. General Twining reads speech. General Twining pins medal on Sergeant Myers and shakes hands with him. They both salute.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1943, September 7
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074593
U.S. Army Air Forces mechanics work on P-40 Warhawk and P-400 Airacobra fighter planes in Guadalcanal during World War II.

U.S. troops in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War 2. Repair crew works on USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) P-40 Warhawk fighter plane. Mechanic drops wrench twice and another retrieves it from puddle of water. Two ground crew carry cowling of a P-40, with name "Susie III " painted on it, .across a puddle. Crewmen place propeller on P-400 Airacobra. Propeller being adjusted. Jeeps being driven through the mud on the airfield. Pilots in jeep return to operations tent from their planes. Jeep is driven on a muddy field to the operations tent.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1943, March 4
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074690
U.S. Army Air Forces crew work on wrecked planes in repair area of Guadalcanal during World War II.

U.S. troops in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Repair area shows USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) crew removing propeller from P-38 Lightening fighter plane with assistance of a mobile crane. Graveyard where wrecked planes are stripped, shows many damaged parts. Crew removes motor from wrecked P-40 Warhawk fighter plane with the help of a mobile crane. Engine hangs from a crane hook. A P-39 that has been stripped for usable parts after a shelling has damaged it. A damaged P-38. A mechanic tinkers with tail surface of P-40 which was machine gunned and landed with control wires shot up.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1943, March 4
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074691
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