Horse carriages at Mackinac Island, Michigan. Men board a carriage and move away. No Auto edict prohibits driving of autos in the Island. A spinning optical film effect shows heavy traffic on streets of a city. Shot of a policeman holding up his hand in traffic as the camera zooms in. A horse carriage moves past a number of carriages lined up on the street on Mackinac Island.
The capture of Garapan on Saipan in the Marianas Islands, by the Americans. American Naval and artillery bombardments destroy the last Japanese strongholds in cliffs north of Garapan city in the Mariana Islands. Infantrymen and tanks advance. An enemy sniper is burnt out. A Japanese bunker is destroyed. Machine gun crew fires and throws grenades at the enemies. Enemies on a cliff shot down. Some of the Japanese troops (and island civilians fearful of American forces) jump off cliffs to commit suicide. Troops line up the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers. Japanese troops surrender. A U.S. 2nd Marine Division cemetery. View of the names of the marines on the gravestones. (World War II period).
The Aleutian Islands Campaign of World War II. Three soldiers on Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Soldiers read a bulletin board. Soldiers queue up to receive daily meal. They eat food and clean their utensils. A soldier distributes letters. Two soldiers play with a ball. A soldier plays a mouth organ while another writes letter.
U.S. chemical warfare tests on San Jose Island, Panama during World War II. Close-up view of U.S. 6th Air Force B-25 Mitchell bomber flying low over islands near San Jose Island. More distant shot of formation of B-25 bombers in flight. A field located near San Jose shows a bomb dump. U.S. airmen load bombs on a bomber aircraft. A technical group consisting of U.S. NDRC (National Defense Research Committee) scientists, trained officers of United Kingdom's Army and Navy and U.S. Army Air Force officers attend a meeting in front of a chart.
U.S. naval operations off Enewetak Island in the Marshall Islands during World War 2. A Vought OS2U Kingfisher float plane, with sailor standing in its cockpit, is hoisted on a crane. Camera focuses on a U.S. Porter Class Destroyer moving to the right, and then pans astern, to another one headed in the opposite direction and several destroyer escorts. Next, a Northampton CA class heavy cruiser is seen. Closeup of 3-inch being fired aboard a warship. Scene switches to Five-inch 25 caliber guns being fired from Northampton class cruiser. Camera pans horizon. Scene shifts to deck of Northampton CA class cruiser and catapulting of its OS2U Kingfisher observation plane. Smoke rising from Naval gunfire striking the island. landing craft seen in the water. Image temporarily obscured by heavy smoke.
The sea voyage of the victory ship Hannibal Victory from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands during World War II. The ship underway in the Pacific ocean. A man standing at the deck of the ship. Animated map locates the Hawaiian Islands and Eniwetok. The ship passes Diamond Head in the Hawaiian Islands. It joins a large convoy anchored at Eniwetok.
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