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United States Marine Corps 1st Marine Division soldiers march on a dirt road in Talasea,New Britain during World War II.

United States Marines of 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, invade Talasea, New Britain, Papua New Guinea in World War 2. A Marine digs on the ground with a knife and uncovers a Japanese Model 93 ("Tape-measure") mine. He picks it up and scrapes mud from around the cover of the detonator. Marines walk on dirt road carrying equipment. Marines firing M2 60mm light mortar. Long line of heavily laden Marines slogging along jungle path.

Location: Talasea New Britain Papua New Guinea
Date: 1944, March 7
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063811
Aerial attack of Tobera Airdrome by United States bombers (WW2)

United States bombers attack Tobera Airdrome, an Imperial Japanese aerodrome located near Rabaul, Papua New Guinea during World War II. Aerial view of Tobera. A thick pillar of smoke and explosion rises from Tobera. Shadows of multiple aircraft are seen on aerial view of Tobera Airfield. Aerial view of the coast of Keravat, near Tobera Airfield. A group of bombers in flight. Five United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers flying away.

Location: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079840
U.S. soldiers relax aboard a ship underway in the Pacific Ocean heading towards Manus Island during World War II.

Allied troops aboard a ship underway in the Pacific Ocean heading towards Manus Island in Papua New Guinea during World War II. Silhouette of men at the rail of an LST (Landing Ship Tank). LCMs (Landing Crafts Mechanized) and ships of a convoy underway in the Pacific Ocean. A convoy of ships at anchor. Soldiers on the deck of a ship load ammunition boxes. A sailor scans the horizon with binoculars. A sailor uses a sextant. Men on the bridge of the ship. Soldiers play chess, sleep, play harmonica, rest, play cards and read magazines.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1944, March 20
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057670
Allied soldiers eat food and clean mess gear aboard a ship underway in the Pacific Ocean heading

Allied troops aboard a ship heading towards Manus Island in Papua New Guinea during World War II. Allied soldiers in a mess line aboard the ship underway in the Pacific Ocean. Mess gear in the hands of the soldiers. The soldiers eat chow. Tablets on a table. One being given to each soldier. The soldiers eat food. They clean the mess gear aboard the ship.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1944, March 20
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057671
Brief wartime scenes from Pacific Theater during World War II

First scene shows a raging fire on an island in the Pacific during World War 2. Next, the dense smoke cloud is seen from a boat offshore as it covers all of the sky. A landing ship Tank nearby is silhouetted against the light sky. U.S. medics are seen bending a wounded soldier lying on the ground, as they administer first aid to him. Change if scene shows natives preparing to dig a dead soldier out of mud. U.S. Marines push wounded away from a shore on an inflated raft. Natives help a blinded Australian soldier wade through water and mud in jungles of Papua New Guinea. Australian soldiers, in rain gear, stand in a battlefield graveyard containing several rustic crosses. One of them reads from a document, as the others stand with heads bowed. Closeups from camera panning around the group of soldiers. Next, one is seen reading from a small prayer book. More closeups from various views of the mourning soldiers.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071830
Battle of Papua New Guinea in World War II

Animated map shows New Guinea and Papau. Areas occupied by American and Australian Forces , seeking to dislodge Japanese Forces, at Buna and Gona, are shown. General Douglas MacArthur, arrives at Papua. He strolls through an American/Australian milltary camp in the jungle. He is dressed in a perfectly pressed uniform, smoking a cigar. (Narrator states he arrived to take personal charge of the offensive.) Closeup of MacArthur. American troops flown in from Australia, advance toward the Japanese positions at Buna. Another scene shows Australian troops making their way through jungles as they advance over the Owen-Stanley mountain range toward Gona. Australian troops fire mortars and one seen firing a Bren light machine gun. An American soldier firing an M1919 Browning machine gun. More views of Allied soldiers firing rifles and machine guns, including a water-cooled Browning M1917 gun. A bomb or shell explodes at a Japanese position. Scene shifts to Allied Military Headquarters in New Guinea, where staff plot information on large status maps about Japanese reinforcements arriving in the Bismark Sea, to bolster the enemy’s defenses. An Australian pilot runs to his Spitfire airplane, and American pilots rush to their B-25 Mitchell bomber, named “Dirty Dora.” An Australian Douglas A-26 invader airplane taking off. The B-25, Mitchell bomber (Dirty Dora) taking off. A USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress bomber taking off. More Allied aircraft taking off and in flight, including a formation of Australian A-26 invader airplanes. An Australian Airspeed Oxford training aircraft is seen diving . View from cockpit of an A-26 Invader airplane firing machine guns at Japanese ship. View of Allied warplane dropping bombto skip a Japanese ship. Bombs explode. Aircraft strafing Japanese ship. Various views of smoke rising from struck many Japanese ships. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Location: Papua New Guinea
Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051761
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