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U.S. 1st Marine Division invades the Palau Islands during World War II.
Film opens with animated map showing places in the Pacific near the island of Palau. A formation of U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers is seen in flight. Glimpse from the air of the Palau archipelago. Aerial view from a B-24 of its bombs exploding on the center of a Japanese airfield below. Aerial view of a U.S. Independence-class Aircraft carrier of Task Force 58. Officers and sailors on carrier island watch as a Grumman F4F Wildcat aircraft takes off .from the aircraft displays geometric marking on its tail, known as a "G-symbol." In this case it is a large white diamond containing the airplane number inside another diamond. (The United States Navy Pacific Fleet, assigned G-Symbols to the CV and CVL class carriers of Task Force 58. These were assigned to each carrier and appeared on all aircraft operating from it. ) A formation of Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft flying above clouds. Closeup of one with diamond G-symbol and number on its tail. Broad view from the air of TBF Avenger aircraft in flight and Navy warships maneuvering in waters below. Sea level views of some warships in the Third Fleet. One is a Portland-class Cruiser. Wide aerial view of ships in the task force. Cruisers and battleships bombarding Palau and nearby targets. Closeup of heavy cruiser USS Louisville (CA 28) firing her port side 5 inch 25 caliber guns and 40 mm A/A guns from the stern.. A TBF Avenger dive bombs a shore target. More views of warships with shells bursting in background. Shells bursting at the shoreline. Closeup glimpse of marines in landing craft U.S. Marine Corps LVT(A)4 Amphibious Tanks heading toward the beach on September 15, 1944. An LCI(L) Landing Craft Infantry (Large) firing close to shore. Shells striking shoreline installations. View from aircraft of landing craft speeding toward the beach and many more maneuvering offshore. Closeup of marines moving about on the shore of Palau with smoke rising and sounds of gunfire. A marine running through foliage at the shore. Marines manning a command post and communications center in the jungle. Marines firing rifles from a tree line. One firing a Browning M1919 machine gun and another throwing a hand grenade. Marines firing rifle grenades. Marines move forward and encounter a dead Japanese soldier lying next to his flame thrower. They reach the edge of the airfield, where two Japanese aircraft are just barely seen. They walk past dead Japanese at a machine gun emplacement. More views of Marines fighting at the edge of the airfield, and entering into the open area of the field, where fires are burning. .Wrecked Japanese aircraft are seen on the field. Marine infantry cross the field behind an M4 Sherman tank. Barges are seen carrying construction cranes and equipment to the island. A tracked crane drives onto the airfield. Bulldozers work on the edge of the airfield. A power shovel fills trucks with coral deposit material for resurfacing the airfield. Trucks dumping their contents at the field. Bulldozers and earth scrapers level the airfield surface. A TBF Avenger aircraft is the first to land on the unpaved airfield.
8th Fighter Group aboard a ship and a ship convoy underway in the Philippines Sea.
U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group aboard a ship underway in the Philippines Sea during World War II.. A destroyer underway in the sea. Soldiers on the ship's deck look over the rail at destroyers coming towards the ship. A ship convoy underway in the sea. The port side of Philippines visible from the ship.
Harry S. Truman with his guests on a boat goes fishing in the Great Sound and swims in Bermuda.
U.S. President Harry S. Truman on USS Williamsburg in Bermuda. A fishing party boards a boat and pulls away into the Great Sound. The boat underway in the Great Sound. Another group boards a boat and pulls away. Men on the deck wave. Men of the fishing party come back and board USS Williamsburg. Truman in water. He hangs onto a platform on a gangway and then swims around a bit. Truman and other men swimming. USS Williamsburg leaves Bermuda. A blinker signal comes from port director's shack.
German bomber aircraft drop bombs over Norway during Operation Weserubung.
Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway code named Operation Weserubung during World War II. German aircraft in flight. A navigator in an aircraft plots a chart. The aircraft in flight. German troops seated in the aircraft. Seaplanes parked in water. German transport aircraft in flight over trees. The transport aircraft parked at an airfield. German troops disembark from the aircraft. A large group of German troops march in front of a hangar. A German guard. The aircraft in flight. A large fire burns in woods. Smoke rises due to the fire. Transport airplanes and troops in the foreground. German fighter airplanes in flight. A soldier speaks over a radio. The soldiers at a machine gun. Heavy artillery firing. German officers on a range finder. The seaplanes in flight over a Norwegian port. German bombers in flight. Bombing on the coastline in Norway. Smoke rises due to bombing. A pilot at the controls of an airplane.
2nd Marine Division aboard transport ships headed to Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, during World War II
U.S. Marines boarding troop transport ships in World War 2. A line of the transport ships underway in the Pacific, en route to Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. The Destroyer, USS Frazier (DD-607) seen close to port, astern, with a line extending to the transport ship. A sealed packet of orders for the transport and the Marines is delivered over the line. Scene shifts to an officer briefing marines with help of a large relief map of Betio in the Tarawa atoll. The map is complete, in every detail, down to models of structures there. Marines are seen belting machine gun ammunition and test firing their weapons. Marines on deck exercise doing calisthenics. Officer briefing Coast Guard and Navy coxswains who will be operating landing craft during the amphibious assault. Religious service being conducted on deck by a military Chaplains, on evening of November 19, 1943. Catholic chaplain, Father Francis W. Kelly, Chaplain, U.S.N.R. saying Mass, for marines. (Narrator comments that many of these Marines were killed the next morning.)
The small ships being strafed in a harbor and a torpedo bomber TBM Avenger in flight over a ship in the Pacific Theater.
The U.S. Task Force advances in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Aerial view of a small ship at a harbor. The small ships being strafed in the harbor. Bomb hits exploding in water. The building along the dock area being strafed. Smoke rises from the dock area due to explosion. A tramp steamer being strafed in the harbor. The ships in a river being strafed. The tramp steamer being strafed by machine gun bullets. Tramp steamer underway as it is being strafed alongside a port. A U.S. Navy torpedo bomber TBM Avenger in flight over a ship. A coast line in the far background.
