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Allied soldiers eat food and clean mess gear aboard a ship underway in the Pacific Ocean heading

Allied troops aboard a ship heading towards Manus Island in Papua New Guinea during World War II. Allied soldiers in a mess line aboard the ship underway in the Pacific Ocean. Mess gear in the hands of the soldiers. The soldiers eat chow. Tablets on a table. One being given to each soldier. The soldiers eat food. They clean the mess gear aboard the ship.

Date: 1944, March 20
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057671
A Weasel M-29C tows a 40 mm anti aircraft gun on a beach in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

U.S. Weasel M-29C in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A Weasel tows a 40 mm anti aircraft gun as it unloads from a landing craft at a beach. The Weasel tows the gun along the beach. Supplies loaded on to the Weasel in Leyte island. It also carries personnel. A jeep being winched from mud as a Weasel tows it.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057689
United States 6th Army soldiers aboard a ship as they prepare to invade Los Negros in the South West Pacific.

The American campaign against the Japanese in the South West Pacific during World War II. U.S. 6th Army soldiers aboard the ship talk. Ships in the background. A silhouetted soldier looks through binoculars towards a coast. A naval gun being manned. A man at the controls in the engine room of the ship. An officer briefs the troops before the invasion of Los Negros, Admiralty Islands. An officer speaks on a wireless. Naval guns and rockets bombard the coast at night. Smoke rises due to the bombardment.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059149
Wounded men and German U boat crew being transferred aboard USS Guadalcanal from whale motor boats in the Atlantic Ocean.

USS Guadalcanal escort carrier captures German U boat-505 while underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. A motor whale boat along the side of USS Guadalcanal as a patient in a stretcher being hoisted aboard the ship. Island of USS Guadalcanal with five German flags marked on it. A motor whale boat heads towards the ship. The motor whale boat along the side the ship as a German U boat-505 crew member climbs up a Jacob's ladder. German crew comes down a catwalk on the deck of the escort carrier. The motor whale boat underway. It is alongside USS Guadalcanal as men climb up a Jacob's ladder. The bridge of USS Guadalcanal with five German flags marked on it. Three destroyer escorts underway. A motor whale boat underway. A destroyer escort on the horizon. The captain of USS Guadalcanal leans over the side of the flying bridge. German U boat-505 underway at sea. Bow and conning tower of the U boat. USS Guadalcanal attempts to come along side the U boat. Men on the signal bridge of the ship. U boat -505 and a motor boat at sea.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059324
Crew members of captured German U boat -505 aboard USS Guadalcanal in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.

USS Guadalcanal escort carrier captures German U boat-505 while underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. U.S. sailors on the bridge of USS Guadalcanal. German U boat-505 under tow. U boat underway with the American flag on its conning tower. Pilots gathered on the deck of the ship as they talk. The U boat underway. Island of USS Guadalcanal. A motor whale boat alongside USS Guadalcanal as German prisoner of war climb up a Jacob's ladder as they come aboard the ship. A wounded on a steel stretcher being hoisted aboard the ship. USS Guadalcanal underway with a U.S. Navy TBF Avenger flying overhead. German prisoners on the main deck of USS Guadalcanal.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059326
Bombing of Tokyo by United States 21st Bomber Command's B-29 Superfortresses during World War II.

View of B-29 superfortress aircraft, of 21st Bomber Command,flying over Tokyo,Japan, with Mount Fujiyama clearly visible. Bombs falling from the B-29s. Near ground view of street and smoke rising from bomb strikes. In Washington, DC, General Henry (Hap) Arnold, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Air Forces, and Lieutenant General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Assistant Chief of Staff , give a sendoff to crew of a XXI Bomber Command B-29 bound for the Pacific Theater. The B-29 crew write a message in chalk on a bomb, reading: "To the Warlords of Japan. We have not forgotten--the B-29s will remind you Again and Again and Again!!!" Views of the city of Tokyo, Japan, showing streets, buildings, cars and pedestrians. Animated map fades to Saipan Island. B-29s of the 21st Bomber command,73rd Bombardment Wing, 497th Bombardment Group,landing at Isley Field, Saipan, watched by airmen at the base. Animated map showing B-29 access to Japan, itself, from Saipan.Formation of B-29s in flight, and bombs falling over Japan.

Date: 1944, December
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060195