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U.S. Navy successfully engages Japanese fleet at Battle of Coral Sea and Battle of Midway early in World War II.

U. S Mahon class destroyers speed through the water in the Pacific Theater in World War II. Closeup of one passing the camera ship. Distant head-on view of a North Carolina class U.S. Battleship. The American aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CV-6), with aircraft on her deck. Animated map shows the Coral Sea and Midway Island, in the Pacific, where the U.S. Navy successfully engaged the Japanese in major naval battles. Glimpse of sailor with binoculars at railing of an aircraft carrier with many Douglas Dauntless dive bomber aircraft on her deck. View, looking back from an airplane, toward the aircraft carrier, USS Intrepid (CV-11) underway in the Pacific, with aircraft crowded forward on her deck. A South Dakota class battleship underway and firing guns astern while defending against attacking Japanese aircraft Black flak clouds are visible low in the sky. Aircraft carrier and other U.S. warships under aerial attack. An American aircraft carrier tilting as she maneuvers sharply under fire. U.S. ships firing 1.1 inch quad anti-aircraft guns. Japanese bombers maneuvering and attacking amidst numerous black flak clouds. Skies filled with tracer rounds of ammunition. An airplane crashes into the water. Sailors reloading their quad anti-aircraft guns. Glimpse of a destroyer firing her anti-aircraft guns while racing behind an aircraft carrier. A Japanese bomber heading toward a U.S. ship, through heavy fire, is hit in the left wing and plunges into the sea. Black smoke marks its impact. Two Japanese aircraft hit by anti-aircraft fire, trail fire as the aircraft crash into the sea. More scenes of combat. Glimpse of a disabled Navy F4F airplane on a carrier deck. Sky littered with black flak smoke clouds. The sound of an engine on one Japanese aircraft begins cutting out. Two observers with binoculars point toward the plane as it falls into the sea. A PT boat is seen underway carrying Japanese airmen rescued from the sea. A sailor guards them with a Thompson machine gun. More rescued Japanese airmen are seen stepping from a Higgins boat, and then walking , while trying to avoid the cameras. Some prisoners crouched together smoking cigarettes provided by a U.S. soldier. At end of film, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, decorates American aviators and sailors at a formal award ceremony aboard an aircraft carrier.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051758
Wounded soldiers treated aboard hospital ship USS Bountiful (AH-9) during Pacific campaign of World War 2

Portrays the suffering of wounded U.S. soldiers in action during a Pacific campaign in World War II. Shows naval air transport plane in action for transporting severe cases to hospital in the Pacific Theater. Wounded soldier being carried on a stretcher. Wounded soldiers loaded aboard army transport aircraft parked on an airfield. Wounded soldier lying on stretchers and beds aboard hospital ship USS Bountiful (AH-9) at anchor off the coast. Nurse and doctor examine wounded men. A wounded soldier gets a head massage. Operation theater aboard hospital ship and soldiers with severe wounds on arms and legs being operated by surgeons. Patient on wheel chair being pushed on deck of USS Bountiful. Wounded soldiers on deck of ship relax and smoke. Blood stained faces of soldiers.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060306
United States warships in the Pacific attacked by Kamikaze planes of Japanese Air Force, Pacific Theater of World War II.

The Pacific Theater of World War II. A United States Navy ship cruising towards Iwo Jima attacked by Kamikaze planes of Imperial Japan. Kamikaze planes dive bombing toward US Navy ships. Huge ship anti aircraft guns on warships fire at the Japanese planes. Explosions on the ships and in the ocean. View as kamikaze aircraft is hit by anti-aircraft fire but continues on its path and strikes the USS Saratoga (CV-3), causing large explosion and smoke billowing upward. US Navy sailors fight fires and try to extinguish fire.

Date: 1945, February 21
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036364
Japanese Kawasaki Ki-32 (Mary) aircraft operating early in World War II

Japanese armorers carry a large bomb on their shoulders and place it on the ground next to a line of other bombs at a Japanese airfield in the Pacific region, early in World War 2. A Japanese pilot, carrying a katana (samurai) sword, climbs on the wing of a Kawasaki Ki-32 (Mary) light bomber and into its cockpit. Another crew member seen getting into rear cockpit. A flight of two Kawasaki Ki-32s airborne on takeoff from an established airfield. Both aircraft display wheel pants and white stripes and star-shaped images on their tails. View of pilot in forward cockpit. Six Kawasaki Ki-32s flying in loose formation.

Date: 1941
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675041083
U.S. troops land on an enemy island under bombardment during Pacific campaign of World War II, Pacific Ocean Theater.

Film titled ‘Remember These Faces’ shows U.S. troops land on an enemy island during a Pacific campaign of World War II. U.S. warship fires guns towards an enemy island in the Pacific Ocean. Landing craft underway as they head for beach. Supplies, troops, and equipment being readied to be transported on beach. Troops disembark from ship onto LCMs (Landing Craft, Mechanized). LCMs head for the beach. Warship’s gun fire at shoreline. Enemy bombers in flight overhead as they attack the U.S. troops heading for the beach. Amphibious vehicles of U.S. army hit the beaches. Troops advance inland under bombardment. Dead bodies of soldiers on beach. Troops with rifles advance inland.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060302
Wounded U.S. soldiers being treated during Pacific campaign of World War II, Pacific Ocean Theater.

U.S. soldiers land on an enemy island and being wounded in action during a Pacific campaign of World War II. U.S. troops care for wounded soldiers being hit during initial enemy attacks. Another wounded soldier being carried on a stretcher inland. Wounded soldier being placed on a jeep. Shell blasts on the island. Jeep pulls away. U.S. tanks advance on island. Wounded soldiers of U.S. army being brought at a field hospital. First aid and plasma being given to wounded soldier by medics. Leg of a wounded soldier affected by gangrene being treated. Wounded soldiers being loaded into ambulances and evacuated. Enemy shells fire on island as smoke rises from explosions.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060303