A U.S. Navy training film about the treatment and recovery of soldier wounded in Saipan during World War II. United States Marines advance on the island. Marines fire a gun. Injured Marine on a field. Supplies in a sling being unloaded. Water canes being unloaded. Medical supplies arrive at a shore and being unloaded. Carts, jeeps being used to carry supplies inland. Fatigued and war weary Marines arrive at a clearing station for rest and relaxation. Wounded Marine being examined by a doctor.
Pictures taken by military and news cameramen during World War II. The Battle of Midway, June 1942: A fleet of U.S. warships underway off the Midway Island. U.S. aircraft bomb the Island. A Japanese ship is hit. The ship on fire. Black smoke rises from the wreckage. U.S. soldiers fire deck guns at Japanese aircraft. Pacific Theater: U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrains or Dakotas in flight over the battlefield. Allied parachute troops and supplies dropped from the aircraft in New Guinea. Parachute troops descend towards the ground. Allied aircraft carriers underway. U.S. aircraft on a carrier deck. Airmen prepare the aircraft for take off. The aircraft taxi and take off. U.S. B-24 Liberators drop bombs. Explosions as deck guns are fired. Explosions near a ship in the water. A U.S. carrier under kamikaze attack by a Japanese aircraft. The hit aircraft descends towards the ship and into the water.
Vierstabers rocket standing on its four legs on Lindwerder Island in Lake Tegel, Berlin. Men gathered around as the rocket is being fueled. Fumes from condensation seen. The rocket is fired and rises a considerable distance in the air before falling into the lake. Sketches of the rocket. Heavy steam fumes rising where the rocket has fallen into the water, because the motor appears to be still burning. Two more sequences of rockets launching from the island and falling into the lake. Men in a motorboat retrieving a rocket from the water. Another test launch of a Vierstabers rocket from a boat in the Schwielowsee (lake) in Germany. A motor launch traveling out on the lake, with a Vierstaber rocket on its deck and flying the German national flag. The launch next to a larger boat in the lake. The rocket launches high in the sky and falls into the lake.
Mercury control stations all over world. USAF Rose Knot at sea. At rose knot station: a man on machine, official communicates with Friendship 7. Men at work. People with camel carts outside the station at Canary Islands. At Kano station, people work on transmitting station. At Muchea station, officials talk on headphones, an official smokes cigar. Rotating Earth. Satellite dish. Men, operating control panel at station and talking on headset at Canton Island and Hawaii. Officials work on giant machine at Mexico. In California, men are ready to track John Glenn. In Texas, officials talk on headsets. Personnel operate station at Corpus Christi. In Cape Canaveral, two men control the space flight of Mercury. An official gets printout. Official transmits the information on transmitters Officials on giant machine to Mercury control.
Japanese propaganda newsreel, narrated in accented English. Fall of Hong Kong: Map shows Hong Kong and offensive from Kowloon to Hong Kong. Japanese artillery fired at British forces. Japanese attack over Hong Kong by artillery, by aircraft, and with landing forces. Explosions over targets from aircraft. British ships at sea under attack. Naval guns shell the island. Japanese troops on troop carriers ready for invasion of the mainland. Ships at sea. Mountains in the background. View of oil tanks on land. Japanese bombers in flight target ships and oil tanks. Pilot in bomber. Aerial view of Island and city. Smoke rises from oil tanks on Hong Kong. Artillery is fired. Ground forces scale ladders of an oil tank facility. (World War II period).
Japan - China conflict pre-World War II. Views from a Japanese patrol boat along the Sungari River (Songhua or Sunghwa River). Japanese on patrol boat. Plane in flight. Smoke arises from the boat. Animated map points out stops at Tungho, Kiamusze (Jiamusi, Heilongjiang), Fuchin, and a Japanese immigration village. They are searching along the Sungari River for guerrillas. Japanese officer gives order to soldiers. They launch several boats of soldiers who assault an island in the river. The Japanese Navy flag. Soldiers on the boat. They watch through binoculars and ship fires its deck gun at island. Japanese soldiers seen at guerrilla camp site. Japanese soldiers get off the boat and enter the immigration village.
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