Refine Your Search

Okinawa Ryukyu Islands 1944 stock footage and images

- Showing 4537 to 4542 of 9548 results
Wrecked Japanese artillery and tanks on Saipan in World War II

Views of wrecked Japanese artillery pieces and a knocked out Type 95 light tank, on Saipan during World War 2. U.S. marines walk past the tank and pause near another one, still smoking. View of dead Japanese soldier lying next to another destroyed tank.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028056
U.S. marine armor and infantry advancing on Saipan in World War II

A U.S. Marine M4 sherman tank advancing across a field, rakes foliage to its left, with machine gun fire, during battle of Saipan in World War 2. Marine infantry follow quickly after the tank.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028057
U.S. Marines and wrecked Japanese tanks on Saipan, during World War II

Several U.S. marines conversing as they stand near several knocked out Japanese Type 95 light tanks on battlefield in Saipan, during World War 2. One of the tanks is still smoldering. Another has its turret blown off. The turret is seen laying on the ground.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028059
U.S. Marines pushing forward after amphibious landing on Eniwetok Atoll during World War II in the pacific.

U.S. Marines are hunkered down in sand on Eniwetok, as a shell fired by a nearby tank bursts. They then get up and follow the tank forward. Camera focuses on several Landing Vehicles, Tracked (LVT) AKA amphtracks moving across desolate landscape of broken trees and debris. Marine infantry moving across the area past an overturned vehicle and searching for remaining Japanese defenders. Two marines fire their rifles into a heap of debris. Four marines carry a wounded comrade on a litter. Others administer blood plasma to a wounded marine lying on the ground. An M3 Stuart light tank moving slowly with some marine infantry behind it. Slate is interjected reading: "Snipers are blasted from their holes." Marines are seen poking rifles into hiding places and preparing grenades for use. Grenade charges exploding.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041091
American comedian Bob Hope and troupe arrives at the Mullinex field

American comedian Bob Hope arrives at the Bonriki airfield, also known as Mullinex field, during World War 2. A PBY-5A Catalina lands and taxis. Bob Hope and his USO entertainment troupe exit the plane. They are greeted by officers and men. The troupe enters jeeps. PBY-5A Catalina warms up. Stage and Navy sailor and soldier spectators for the Bob Hope show. Bob Hope and troupe in plane.

Date: 1944, July 29
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041126
U.S. forces searching Saipan for holdout Japanese defenders in World War II

Camera follows American troops as they comb through hiding places at the end of the battle for Saipan in World War 2. Small children hiding among some boulders. Next a Japanese woman and four small children are seen seated on the ground. A U.S. soldier bandages the arm of one child. A group of American soldiers searches for Japanese soldiers near a cave. Two soldiers seen firing at a suspected Japanese enemy position. Next, they search the underbrush and retrieve a box of canned goods next to the body of a dead Japanese soldier. A dead Japanese soldier floating in a stream. U.S. infantrymen continuing their search for Japanese holdouts. One retrieves an abandoned Japanese rifle. Another holds a Japanese grenade. One GI displays a Japanese long Arisaka Type 38 rifle with a Type 30 bayonet. (The rifle is 4 feet, 2 inches long and the bayonet 20 inches, making it almost 5-feet in overall length.) Camera pans across misty landscape near the shore, with so-called "suicide cliff" in background. A woman and small girl sitting beneath a rough shelter.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050872