United States Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress displaying Plain T tail code of 498th Bomb Group, taxis behind a follow-me jeep, after landing on Saipan. Ground crewman assists parking. Crew of the B-29 seen on the parking ramp as they offload their baggage and climb aboard a truck. Other aircraft displaying Plain A tail codes of the 497th Bomb Group are seen parked on field. (World War II period).
Many B-29 Superfortress bombers, of the 314th Bombardment Wing, taxi and take off from North Field Guam during World War 2. Most of them are from the 29th Bomb Group, and display the black square O tail code. (Aircraft numbers: 16;45;24;7 5; and 27, are seen.) One, displaying the black square K tail code and number 9, is from the 330th Bomb Group.
U.S. Marine Corps forces landing at Tarawa during World War II. United Sates Navy Carrier fighters F6F Hellcats headed for landing in the Tarawa Islet a Japanese base. Scenes of Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) ferrying U.S. Marines to the beach. View from inside LVT of Marines preparing for beach landing. Views from moving LVT of many other landing craft on their way to beach during Battle of Tarawa.
U.S. Marines Corps soldiers crawling on beach at Tarawa during World War II. Landing Ship Tank (LST) on shore and smoke at a distance are seen. Marines following a low wire on the beach. U.S. Navy Destroyer (DD) firing. Marines taking position and advancing during Battle of Tarawa.
U.S. soldiers crawling through underbrush. Soldiers carry injured soldiers. Wounded man lying on litter, using helmet for pillow. Soldiers squatting in forest. Loading wounded on litters into ambulance backed up to a plane. Soldier walks towards jeep with "Operations Officer - Acorn l3". Ambulance on field. Ambulance backed up to open door of C-47 loading wounded on plane. Two soldiers rest in the shade of a C-47 wing. Wounded soldiers lie inside plane. (World War II period).
As film opens, Brigadier General William H. Rupertus, Assistant Commander of the First Marine Division (on the left) and Major General Alexander McCarrell "Sandy" Patch (in the center) Commander of the U.S. Army 23rd Infantry Division (the Americal Division) and his Assistant Commander, U.S. Army Brigadier General Edmund Sebree, are seen looking at a map on Guadalcanal, during World War 2. Rupertus converses with Patch and shakes his hand. He then shakes hands with Sebree, as both of them laugh at some comment made. General Sebree salutes General Rupertus, who returns his salute, and the three of them walk away. Close up of General Patch, posing for the camera. He fastens the chin strap on his steel helmet and then releases it. Closeup of General Rupertus, posing for the camera.
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