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A tanker burns at Ulithi harbor and a destroyer drops depth charges with explosions behind the ship during World War II

The U.S. task force advances in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2. A tanker burns in the Ulithi harbor. Black smoke pouring up from the ship. Other ships surround the area. The tanker burns. A Destroyer drops ash cans (depth charges). Explosions going off behind another ship.

Location: Ulithi Atoll Caroline Islands
Date: 1944
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069334
U.S. Navy aircraft making use of new airstrip at Ulithi Atoll, during construction in World War II

A quad 50 (4-50 caliber machine guns) mounted on a U.S. Army vehicle at the shore at Ulithi Atoll, during World War 2. A C-47 (Navy R4D) parked on airstrip with Seabees at work with trucks in background. A PBY Catalina amphibian plane being serviced. An F6F parked on sand in makeshift revetment. Another one coming in for a landing. The landing F6F on ground roll as a steam roller passes in foreground. Navy F6F aircraft arriving, from aircraft carriers, and being parked. Numerous Navy aircraft, including SB2C Helldivers and F6F Hellcats, parked with wings folded on the airstrip, while construction work continues. Men recover items from a crashed F6F, as smoke rises in background. They work to prevent fire around the crashed plane. Hoses are stretched around the plane and one man holds a pressure nozzle.

Location: Ulithi Atoll Caroline Islands
Date: 1944, December 6
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069718
U.S. air operations at newly built airstrip on Ulithi Atoll in World War II

During World War 2, three pilots of Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) stand in front of Billboard displaying their squadron symbol of a red devil with spear and cape. It also displays silhouettes of Japanese ships they had struck. View of the newly constructed airstrip at Ulithi, as an F6F aircraft takes off. It is followed, in turn, by a C-47 (R4D),a PBY, and another F6F. Aerial view of Ulithi and the new broad runway running across the atoll.

Location: Ulithi Atoll Caroline Islands
Date: 1944, December 6
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069719
Marines land in Saipan, wounded are treated behind the lines during World War 2.

Recovery of Marines wounded in Saipan during World War II. United States ships underway in the Pacific Ocean during the battle of Saipan in WW2. Naval guns aboard the ship bombard the coast. United States troops aboard transport ships. Landing crafts loaded with Marines move towards the shore. Troops land at the coast amidst heavy firing. Medical Company and Corpsmen arrives at the beach and looks after the wounded Marines. Marines fire machine gun and tanks roll. Injured Marines on stretchers being carried away. Litter patients being placed into ambulance jeep and carried away. Medical officer examines the wounded and provides first aid to them. Wounded U.S. troops on stretchers being placed in a jeep and walking wounded being helped to get into the jeep. Jeep carries the injured Marines to Regimental aid station. Doctor checks the injured Marines and treats them. Tags being prepared for each patient. Records being maintained. Wounded being loaded onto a jeep and the jeep is driven away to a collecting station. At the collecting station Marines at work.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, June 15
Duration: 6 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077536
United States invasion fleet and Japanese suicide motorboat at Kerama Retto (WW2)

United States fleet of invasion craft sail toward the shore of Kerama Retto during World War 2. United States attack transport ships (APA) sailing toward the beach. A Japanese Shinyo-class suicide motorboat passes by a dock at slow speed. Motorboat underway circling along the beach at Kerama Retto. United States soldier opens the engine cover of a docked suicide motorboat. Soldier uses a screwdriver on Japanese suicide boat’s engine.

Location: Kerama Islands Pacific Ocean
Date: 1944, April 5
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079541
U.S. Army Air Forces light Grasshopper aircraft on a reconnaissance mission on Bougainville during World War II.

U.S. and Japanese forces battle during the Bougainville Campaign of World War II. A U.S. Army Air Forces Grasshopper light aircraft takes off to conduct a reconnaissance mission against Japanase forces who hold part of Bougainville, New Guinea. The aircraft in flight over difficult terrain, flying slowly at tree-top height. The pilot spots Japanese positions and radios the ground forces. U.S. artillery is positioned and fired. They blast revealed Japanese positions. Infantry units land near the Jaba River and progress to clean up isolated Japanese troops. A Grasshopper in flight overhead.

Location: Bougainville Island Papua New Guinea
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021886
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