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U.S Navy aircraft carriers and destroyers in Hawaii.

Aerial view of aircraft carrier underway. Aerial view Navy destroyer parting wave with bow in heavy seas. Aircraft carrier entering Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Grumman Panther jets seen on deck. Hula dancers alongside ship in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Navy engine room engineer turning wheel. Sonar and radio operators in Navy. Orderly in hospital attends to a patient's foot. Quarter master at helm of ship. Two destroyers side by side at sea.

Date: 1949
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071363
American Undersecretary of War speaks to difficulties facing Allies in confronting Germany and Japan in World War II

Undersecretary of War, Robert Porter Patterson, Sr. speaks about a report from the General staff outlining the needs for combating Germany and Japan in World War 2. He cites Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, as an example of what will be needed. He continues to narrate in the background as an animated map appears showing the buildup of supplies and Allied forces in North Africa; Allied air forces flying 60 thousand sorties over Sicily and, the direct amphibious assault using 3,200 vessels. Map also depicts opposing forces of 12 (“unwilling”) Italian Divisions and 3-1/2 German Divisions. View of Allied troops carrying some of their 31 thousand casualties on stretchers from field ambulances. Allied medics attending to the wounded. Some are seen lying on stretchers in a row on the ground near a wall. Interior of a field hospital where surgeons and other medical personnel treat the wounded. Animated map shifts to Europe with Germany at its center, showing , in contrast to Sicily that was only an “outpost,”, the heavily fortified perimeter of Axis controlled areas; the axis industrial might; and the disposition of 300 German Divisions (mostly on the Eastern front) defending the region. Next, the map illustrates Japan’s defended regions in the Pacific Image returns to Undersecretary Patterson i n his office, speaking of the Allied offensives planned for next year (1944), and emphasizing their challenge and difficulty. Scene shifts to General Jonathan Wainwright and his garrison at Corregidor, in the Philippines, surrendering to Japanese forces in 1941. Japanese military camera pans over the Americans being taken prisoner. Other Americans and Filipinos are seen being marched together under guard. Scene shifts to classic views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. View of Japanese soldiers executing two Chinese civilians in 1937. Dangling bodies of persons hung by Nazis during Operation Barbarossa in Russia, in 1941 A Russian soldier comforts a little girl as he escorts her across a snowy landscape. Time bomb left by German forces retreating from Naples, Italy, in 1943, blows up a Post office building . Views of damage to building and bodies of victims. American Military Police assisting a victim. American soldiers carrying an injured civilian on a litter. Scene shifts to British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, and U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, entering a hall in the Spiridonovka Palace, during the 1943 Moscow Conference in Russia. Close-up of the American, Soviet, and British flags on a table. View of many delegates seated around the table. Close-up of Molotov, Eden, and Hull signing conference document.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058395
Various views of Waikiki Beach in Hawaii prior to attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II.

Life in Honolulu, Hawaii prior to Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. American people enjoy swimming, surfboard surfing, and horse riding at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu. The statue of King Kamehameha in Kapaau, Hawaii. U.S. Capitol building in Washington DC. A dramatization shows a man enacting as Uncle Sam and other man as an American citizen. They talk to each other. The American man leaves and Uncle Sam sleeps. Views of Polynesians in Hawaii, Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060936
Loading of P-47s on aircraft carriers and 19th Fighter Squadron men embarking on ships at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor.

The Pacific campaign on the Island of Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. P-47 Thunderbolt planes loaded aboard carriers in Ford Island, Pearl Harbor. P-47s of the 318th Fighter Group, 19th Fighter Squadron , are loaded aboard the two aircraft carriers, USS Manila Bay and USS Natoma Bay, at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor. Among the aircraft seen are: P-47 named "Big Baduzi;" P-47 number 42-75783 named "Little Rock-ette;" one named "The Wicked Wench;" and one with serial number 43-2530. Various views of aircraft being loaded on carriers from dock area. Crane in operation. Plane being swung over onto the deck where it is pushed on the elevator and moved down into the hold of the ship. Air Force mechanics working with Navy personnel moving planes and placing them below deck. Navy personnel pushing the aircraft around into position above and below the deck of carrier. Sailors cut loose the mooring lines. Several officers and sailors standing on deck of a carrier as they move out of the harbor. View across Pearl Harbor at Diamond Head mountain in background. Remaining ground crews, support personnel, and others of the 318th Fighter Group assembled on the pier, ready to embark on a troop ship, June 6, 1944. They commence boarding via a gangplank, being checked off as they board.(This third convoy, departs on June 7th.) Various sections of ship with views looking out across at land and ships parked in the harbor.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 5 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047534
United States Army soldiers arriving and advancing towards their camps in Hawaii. View of Lt General Walter Short.

(Before the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War 2). United States Army soldiers arriving in Hawaii. A truck convoy on a road. The soldiers aboard the trucks. Supplies and equipment loaded on the trucks. The soldiers arrive at U.S. Army camps. Soldiers running in a line in the camp. Soldiers include some who appear to be of Japanese-American descent or Hawaiian descent. They carry their luggage on shoulders and stand outside the tents. Closeup view of U.S. Army Lieutenant General Walter Short on a street in front of a staff car, confers with a civilian. (This is before General Short's reduction in rank to Major General which followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. General Short had been responsible for the defense of U.S. military institutions in Hawaii at the time of the attack.)

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061751
The salvage crew team works on ships after the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

Aftermath of attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. An animated map shows Japan in the Pacific Ocean. Nagasaki, Kobe and Otaru in Japan. Radio announcements of attack on Pearl Harbor made in Japan. Capsized and damaged ships. United States naval officers and staff work on salvage repair. Engineers and personnel recruited. Divers get into scuba diving suits and go under water to collect salvage. Destroyed USS Nevada, USS West Virginia, USS California. Salvage crew work aboard these ships. The Alho Clock Tower. Sailors stand with Lurline ship in background. People on a beach. Empty streets. (World War II period).

Date: 1941, December 7
Duration: 5 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043850