Invasion of Aguni, a village in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Battleships at sea during invasion of Aguni in Ryukyu Islands in Japan on 9th June 1945. Artillery fired from the ships. Landing crafts carrying 8th Regiment Combat troops approach the island. The troops holding guns, advance on the island. The soldiers fire guns. The soldiers move under cover. The Japanese civilians come out of their hiding in underground shelters. A civilian and few others come out of their hiding place. The Japanese civilians being held. Women and children standing on the road. The native women prostrate before a soldier. The soldier offers them cigarettes to calm their fear. Soldiers with the women and children.
U.S. Navy vessels in the Philippines. American float plane OS2U lands in slick. Destroyer underway at sea. Many antiaircraft bursts in air in the background. Battleship fires 14 inch guns at Japanese enemy targets. Many auxiliary ships and Landing Ships Tank (LSTs) in Lingayen Gulf on "S" Day. Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) and many other landing crafts underway. Destroyer bombards beach, LCIs in background. LCIs near beach fire. An island in the background. (World War II period).
The sea voyage of the victory ship Hannibal Victory from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands during World War II. The locomotive on a railroad station. Men seated in the engine of the locomotive. A man standing near the locomotive and talking to them. The engine moves on the railroad station. A ship underway at sea.
Japanese installations in the Philippines during World War II. Corregidor island in the background. The coastline of Bataan and mountains in the background. Generals walk on a dock. Two Generals look over harbor and skyward while walking. Wrecked Japanese installations. A fortress on a hill in the background. Wrecked Japanese equipment on the dock.
The invasion of Mindanao in the Philippines by United States soldiers during World War II. Soldiers of the 31st Division on the deck of a Landing Ship Tank (LST) off the coast of the islands. They rest, read, and talk on the deck, under tents and tarps erected for protection from the sun. One soldier holds a carved wooden artifact that the soldiers examine.
The invasion of Mindanao in the Philippines by United States Army soldiers during World War II. Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs) and Liberty ships underway at sea off the coast of the island. Vehicles, soldiers, and equipment on the deck of an LST. The convoy heads for Mindanao.
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