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8th Fighter Group lowers trucks with supplies into an LST and a ship lays a smoke screen in the Philippines Sea

U.S. Army Air Force 8th Fighter Group aboard a ship underway in the Philippines Sea during World War II. The deck of the ship. A ship convoy underway at sea. Leyte Island in the background. A Landing Ship Tank ( LST ) is lowered from the starboard side. A ship lays a smoke screen to cover the convoy. Soldiers lower the LST into water. The soldiers lower a truck over the starboard into the LST. A hoist pulls a truck from the hold of the ship. GIs in a lading craft anchored to the ship. Lowering of a truck over the side into a landing craft. A truck loaded with supplies is lowered into the LST. Trucks and soldiers in the LST. Another truck with supplies is lowered into the LST. The soldiers cover the trucks on the LST. Soldiers aboard the LST underway towards Leyte beach.

Date: 1944, November 8
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068914
Highlights of the Allied New Guinea campaign and other Pacific battles against the Japanese in World War II

The Allied campaign across New Guinea and onward to the Philippines during World War 2. U.S. warships firing their guns at night. Flashes illuminate the blackness. Bombs dropping from an aircraft bomb bay. Bombs exploding on stretch of jungle near water. A U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 bomber in flight View rearward from very low flying USAAF bomber as it bombs it drops explode behind. U.S. troops making amphibious assault on New Guinea. Map showing path of Allied attacks from Australia, across New Guinea from Port Moresby to Buna and on to the Admiralty Islands, cutting off Japanese-held Rabaul, New Britain. Map shows Allied forces moving towards Japanese strongholds at Wewak and along the North shore of New Guinea and bypassing Wewak to strike at Hollandia. General Douglas MacArthur is seen aboard a U.S. warship conferring with American and Philippine officers. Annimated map shows Allied assaults on Japanese positions along the coast from Hollandia, to Warde, Biak, and beyond, stepping along towards the Philippines. Views of numerous fallen Japanese soldiers numbering more than 150 thousand dead. Crosses in battlefield cemetery at graves of some of the more than 13 thousand Allied military who lost their lives during the campaign. A soldier paying respects at one of the gravesites. Admiral Chester Nimitz with members of his staff at his headquarters in Hawaii. U.S. Navy F4F aircraft launching from an American aircraft carrier. American aircraft bombing Japanese positions on an atoll. U.S. warships bombarding Japanese positions with their heavy guns. Admiral Nimitz standing with Admiral William Halsey. More Navy gunfire and amphibious assault scenes. Map showing places where Allied forces had to battle the Japanese, including, Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, Kwajalein, in the Marshals, Saipan, and Guam in the Marianas, and Palau to complete the "bridging" of the Pacific to the doorstep of the Philippines.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028169
Men aboard the ship underway at sea using the semaphore signaling system.

The sea voyage of the victory ship Hannibal Victory from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands during World War II. The ship underway in the Pacific ocean. A map locates Philippine Islands and Leyte. The ship convoy underway. Men standing near the deck gun. The semaphore signaling system is being used. A man wearing earphones standing near the deck gun.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062883
Douglas DC-3 airplanes loaded aboard the deck of USS Philippine Sea for polar expedition.

Relates to the U.S. Antarctic expedition,Operation High Jump. Shows Douglas DC-3 airplanes (R-4D in U.S. Navy) loaded aboard the deck of USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) at a U.S. naval base in Norfolk, Virginia. U.S. sailors spot an iceberg in the Southern Ocean. Christmas celebrations held aboard U.S. ships. Scenes from the Central Group underway. Cruzen and other officers gather for a conference. Views of Scott Island and waves crashing on its rocks. The ships reach the Scott Island in Southern Ocean. Cruzen transfers his flag to the USCGC Icebreaker Northwind to become the lead boat in cutting channels for the group.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029538
Japanese soldiers clean their weapons and prepare for an assault at Limay, Bataan, Philippines (WW2)

Japanese occupation of the Philippines following invasion during World War II. A map shows the various mountains of Bataan Peninsula in Japanese. Japanese infantrymen prepare for an assault on Bataan. Japanese soldiers clean their weapons. The infantry aboard a landing craft at Limay in Bataan. Groups of Japanese landing craft sailing to Corregidor Island.

Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675062389
Buildings destroyed on an island between Motoyasu and Tenma rivers in Hiroshima, Japan as a result of the atomic bomb explosion.

Physical damage caused due to atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Bridge across a river as vehicle moves over the bridge. Island between Motoyasu and Tenma rivers. Rubble spread all over the area with wooden huts. Buildings partially damaged by the atom bomb explosion. (World War II period).

Date: 1946, March 29
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042165