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U.S. campaigns against Japanese in Marshal Islands, New Britain, and Rabaul, in the Pacific during World War II

U.S. offensives against Japan in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. A United States Carrier Task Force in the Pacific Ocean. Fighter planes and dive bombers on the deck of the Task Force. Sailors push trolleys containing bombs. A map shows Marshall Islands. Douglas Dauntless dive bombers take off to strike against the enemy. U.S. Navy fighter planes engage defending Japanese aircraft and down many of them, as seen in gun camera footage. The first wave of Douglas Dauntless dive bombers returns to its carrier for refueling, rearming, and debriefing. Sailors on the aircraft carrier man anti-aircraft guns to defend against attacking Japanese aircraft. Black flak fills the sky and a number of Japanese aircraft are destroyed by the anti-aircraft fire. A Japanese bomb explodes near the flight deck of a carrier. (Narrator notes that 85 Japanese aircraft were destroyed in this one operation.)An animated map shows New Britain Island. U.S. Major General William Henry Rupertus, Commander of U.S. Marines on a ship. He looks through a pair of binoculars as a U.S. planes (B-24 Liberators) drop bombs on Rabaul. U.S. warships launch an attack at the enemy positions. Fire and explosions. The Marines load into landing craft and move towards the shore. They land behind an intense naval bombardment. Marines head ashore from beached LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large), number 343. M 16 tanks, equipment, and artillery roll ashore from Landing Ships Tank (LSTs). . The tanks lead the way through the jungle terrain and the marines advance behind them. Marines fire mortars as they advance. They flush out Japanese from trenches and bunkers. A damaged Japanese Mitsubishi fighter plane and wreckage of others. Some dead Japanese soldiers. The Marines wade through deep water as they push on to Rabaul. Others advance through deep mud. More views of them slogging through mud.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033572
Pacific islanders dance, repair fish nets, and sail boats while being photographed by motion picture cameramen.

Cameraman takes motion pictures of natives using movie camera in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A Pacific native climbing palm tree. Small sailboat underway in a shallow harbor. Huts among palm trees. Natives cross footbridge with fishing nets and repair the nets. Men watch the native girls dancing. Women and children watch the dance. Natives walk with poles on shoulders. Man plays guitar while two native girls sit and listen to him.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064073
Many tracer bullets visible and attack on a Japanese freighter in the Pacific Theater.

Strafing of Japanese freighter in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Many tracer bullets visible. Land visible in the background. U.S. gun camera footage.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1945
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040463
Large bomb explosion in a river in the Pacific Theater.

A large explosion in a river in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Fire and smoke visible. U.S. gun camera footage.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1945
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040465
Strafing a beached Japanese ship in the Pacific Theater.

Attack on a beached Japanese ship in the Pacific Theater during World War II. U.S. gun camera footage.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1945
Duration: 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040466
Strafing a Japanese seaplane base and a bomb explosion in the Pacific Theater.

Strafing a Japanese seaplane base in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A bomb explosion in water. A ship close to the beach catches fire. U.S. gun camera footage.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1945
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040467
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