United States Marines Corps leave United States to invade Solomon islands during World War II. A ship pulls away from the San Francisco harbor. San Francisco skyline in the background. Ship passes under the Golden Gate bridge. Marines on the deck of the ship. Ship underway in the Pacific Ocean. Men at anti aircraft guns during a drill aboard a ship. Admiral Halsey confers with Marine officers. Troops on the bridge of the ship as it arrives at a harbor in Australia. General Vandegrift and other officers disembark from the ship and are greeted by other officers. Soldiers climb down the gangplank.
United States Marines Corps arrive in Australia to invade Solomon islands during World War II. Marines come ashore and march to the staging area. Marines get into camp tents at the staging area. Marines read a newspaper. Officers outside a building.
United States bombers bombard Japan during World War 2. U.S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs over Tokyo, Japan. View of Mount Fuji in Honshu Island, Japan. Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 21st Bomber Command in flight. Aerial view of bomb dropping into a Japanese town. Industrial zone being hit by bombs. General Henry H. Arnold shakes hands with an officer in Washington D.C. A message written on a bomb. Message on the bomb reads “TO THE WARLORDS OF JAPAN WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN- THE B-29’S WILL REMIND YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!”. Buildings in Tokyo, Japan. A map of Saipan. B-29 aircraft land at an airstrip in Saipan. B-29 take off for a mission. Bombs being dropped over Japanese town.
Makeshift tents by United States Marines on Iwo Jima after its capture by American forces during World War II. Coconut trees in the background. A man drives an army green bulldozer. Camera pans to show dirt road on the right. Soldiers and carpenters build wooden structures on the island. A soldier hammers a wooden frame in the heat. The soldiers raise wooden frame up. They hammer nails into the frame.
Physician of the 1st United States Marine Corps Medical Battalion performs surgery on a wounded U.S. Marine in a tent at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, within the Solomon Islands archipelago. Surgeon prepares instruments for operation. Patient is given anesthesia via inhalation. His back shows large cut swabbed with antiseptic. The patient is given intravenous injection. Surgeon performs a thoracotomy incision on patient's chest to remove shrapnel from his thoracic cavity. The lung is visible in the wound as a retractor is placed to expose the inside of the chest. The surgeon removes the shrapnel and places it on piece of cloth. Surgeon reapproximates the ribs using wire suture. Chest tube is inserted. Doctors dress the wound with gauze. Attending medical staff wipe face of patient and doctor with clean cloths. X-Ray of the patient shows pieces of shrapnel in his chest.
Boats and ships in the "The Narrows" (tidal strait for Hudson River between Upper and Lower New York Bay) in New York. They pass under The Verrazzano Narrows Bridge. Ground Level views of the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge from Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island.
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