Marines and enlisted personnel on the deck of USS Bayfield (APA-33) during amphibious exercises at White Beach, Okinawa, japan. The marines stand on the deck of USS Bayfield. Navy enlisted personnel lined up on the deck.
Various activities of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Teams in Okinawa, Japan. Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team dispose shells and explosives into the ocean. Barge front gate lifting. A man closes the front gate on landing craft loaded with shells. Landing barge leaving shore. View of the barge as it travels out to sea. Water splashing on front of sailing landing barge. United States personnel on the barge are throwing shells and land mines overboard. Other men watch the personnel throwing shells. Shirtless personnel pick up a shell and throws it overboard. Men tossing shells and landmines into the water.
Burial of dead U.S. Marines, from battle of Peleliu, Palau Islands against Japan in World War 2. (Location is likely, island of Bliliou near Village of Teliu.) The covered bodies of fallen Marines are set out on litters. Later, Marines, wearing arm length black rubber gloves, lower the bodies into graves. A caterpillar tractor with bulldozer attachment smooths earth over the line of grave sites each dug in a row.
Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. Battleships and Portland class heavy cruiser bombard Peleliu island in Palau. Two Battleships underway at sea. Flash and smoke seen as battleship fires 14 inch guns.Fire and explosions on the island. Large smoke column rises over the beach.
Wrecked trees in Marshall Island, Pacific. Wrecked Japanese landing crafts and tanks on the Island. Soldiers stand near a jeep. A soldier ascends on a tree and picks a fruit from the tree. (World War II period).
The damage caused due to an atom bomb test during Operation Crossroads on Bikini Atoll in Micronesian islands, Marshall Islands. An aircraft carrier sinks. Damaged aircraft carrier. Damage caused to Bikini atoll. A damaged destroyer. Some of the damage of the destroyer. Aircraft on the carrier and water being sprayed on it. A destroyer and the fire fighting equipment in operation. Aircraft carrier tilting on one side. Aircraft carrier sinks.
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