U.S. 40th Infantry Division maneuvers in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. LVT A-1 (Landing Vehicle, Tracked) moves towards shore. LVTs loaded with troops move on water.
United States Marines Corps on their way to invade the Solomon Islands during World War II. A mail ship arrives and the Marines on the deck of the ship. U.S. Navy F4U Corsair aircraft in flight. Patrol boats underway. Marines on the bridge aboard a ship. The Marines climb down a landing net and come aboard a landing craft alongside the ship. Naval guns bombard Solomon coast. Landing crafts pull away. An aircraft in flight. Smoke rises from the coast due to bombarding. The landing crafts head towards a beach. Crafts arrive at the coast. Men put sand bags around a gun emplacement on the beach. A sign in Japanese. The United States flag being raised on the island.
The Guadalcanal campaign during World War II on the Solomon Islands in South Pacific. Aerial views of the coast line and beaches of Guadalcanal. Dense wild forests and bushes on the island. Japanese ship sunk on the sea shore. Another ship sunk at the shore. Japanese naval ships damaged in water near the shore. Small boats at the beach. A native village at beach between sea waters and the dense wild bushes.
'Recent pictures from Solomon 'Aerial views of destroyed Japanese planes in Solomon Island during World War II. Several ships afire off the beach. A sunken ship in low water off the beach. Heavy black smoke pours from burning ship. Fireboat sprays water from hoses on burning vessel.
Pre-invasion practice by U.S. troops on Gudalcanal, Solomon Islands for invasion of Philippines during World War II. U.S. soldiers unload LCVPs (Landing Crafts, Vehicle, Tracked) at Teters, Guadalcanal. 155mm shells are carried forward and stock-piled on beach. Soldiers form in line and unload rations.
U.S. troops board a large troop transport ship via a gangplank. Troops on an intermediate deck of the ship. Some are sprawled out relaxing. View from above of more troops boarding a ship. Men and equipment on the pier below. American forces at various far flung places where the U.S. Army Services Forces facilitated their transport and logistic support. Fleeting glimpses of troops in: Ireland; Alaska; Trinidad; and South America. Troops jam the upper deck of a transport ship. Army Service Forces officers in a planning meeting. Naval officers on deck of a ship look through binoculars as U.S. Naval ships bombard the coast of Solomon Islands and landing craft carry marines in an amphibious assault. Next, a man is seen annotating a map of North Africa. Secret maps pertaining to Allied landings in Tunisia and Algeria. Animated map illustrates amphibious landings on North African coast, highlighting Casablanca, Oran, and Algeria. Landing craft carry troops and supplies that are piled up in the sand beach. Soldiers moving military supplies ashore, in fire brigade fashion. Soldiers working at desks in Offices of the Army Service Forces. Filing cabinet in background. Trucks on the move in remote locations. Supply ship being loaded at a terminal. Fuel drums and army vehicles a being loaded aboard ships. Officers seated at a conference table. Ordinary American enlisted soldiers in a griping session at an Army post in the United States. Camera pans over large formation of soldiers. Animated chart shows more than half of servicemen who are part of Army Service Forces (ASF), are unaware of that. Troops marching in review at a tropical location, where reviewing officers wear pith helmets. Chart illustrates lack of unit pride in ASF. Images of various ASF logos. Chart shows results of polling data from soldiers and service members. Signal Corps and Engineers elements of ASF have the greatest unit pride. But most think better of other branches of the Army. More troops marching, in steel helmets and carrying rifles with bayonets affixed. Troops marching overlaid by "50%" indicating that half don't believe their contributions to the war effort are significant. Troops lined up (for pay?). More charts expressing concern about low morale. A heavy gun firing. German paratroopers jumping from a formation of Junkers Ju 52 aircraft. Charts expressing prevailing U.S. troops view that Germany wouldn't be too hard to defeat. Chart showing lack of understanding about why the U.S. is fighting Germany. Image of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill seated in front of their key military officers at Casablanca Conference in World War 2. Chart shows U.S. soldiers believe that the greatest war effort is expended by the U.S. followed by Russia, with China and Britain providing little. Chart illustrates that only half U.S. troops want to get overseas and fight. Chart shows U.S. War Department films can correct this problem.
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