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United States Destroyer underway supporting Operation Shingle in World War II

Operation Shingle (invasion of Anzio, Italy) during World War 2. View from underneath a gun position aboard a U.S. Destroyer in an invasion convoy of Operation Shingle (Anzio, Italy) during World War 2. Camera pans underneath multiple torpedo tubes. Officer in battle gear looks toward the sky with binoculars. One of the Destroyer's guns fires. View down from upper deck shows many expended naval gun shell casings on main deck. Small boats seen in far distance. Several landing craft seen closer in a line followed by a Destroyer Escort. The destroyer's guns firing and raising clouds of smoke. More views of spent shell casings on deck. Sailors in combat gear and life preservers taking a nap on deck. Sailors examining some of the spent shell casings. Camera pans up to the Destroyer's bridge, showing a gun and American flag flying just above it. Large group of sailors looking over the piles of spent shell casings on the deck. A Mahan Dunlop Class destroyer seen nearby. Sailors looking through binoculars. Glimpse of enemy aircraft maneuvering high overhead.Glimpse of Anzio shoreline in distance.

Date: 1944, January
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051463
Views from a U.S. Destroyer in Operation Shingle convoy (Allied invasion of Anzio, Italy) during World War II

Operation Shingle invasion convoy during Operation Shingle in World War 2. Opening scene shows view from a U. S. Destroyer showing a transport ship with several Higgins boats in water nearby, and some small invasion boats in distance. View from the Destroyer, close to land, as a lancing craft (Higgins Boat) passes in rough water. Next, Sailors on the Destroyer position a battery of 5 torpedo tubes into firing position on her deck. View from underneath the torpedo tubes, with a line of landing craft seen in distance. Sailors man an anti-aircraft gun on deck. Officer looks through binoculars. Several officers look through binoculars. Two sailors discuss a knife held by one. Warships seen in distant background. Sailors maneuver twin Bofors 40m anti-aircraft auto cannons. Destroyer's guns firing.

Date: 1944, January
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051464
U.S. Destroyer operating in support of Operation Shingle, during World War II

Views from a U.S. Destroyer, one of the warships supporting Operation Shingle (invasion of Anzio, Italy) during World War 2. View from bridge as Destroyer fires her guns. Heavy black smoke rising from two Allied ships bombed by enemy aircraft. Another view of the Destroyer's guns firing. A bomb bursting in distance. A formation of enemy aircraft seen momentarily overhead. Dense black smoke rising from bombed ship nearby. Two burning convoy ships in distance.

Date: 1944, January
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051465
USAF General Henry Arnold meets crew of a U.S. B-29 at Bolling Field, Washington, DC (WW2)

USAF General Henry Arnold meets crew of U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Super Fortress at Bolling Field, Washington, DC during World War II. C-47s lined up on the flight line. General Arnold, Lieutenant General Barney Giles and Brigadier General Lauris Norstad walk on the field. Crew members lined up in front of B-29. General Arnold in the foreground. General Norstad introduces the Aircraft Commander, Lt. DO Horsfall of Kalamazoo, Michigan, who salutes and shake hands with General Arnold. Lt. Horsfall introduces members of his crew who step forward, salute and shake General Arnold's hand. General Arnold tells the crew that U.S. bombers from China bases had been unable to reach the Japanese heartland. But B-29s from the Marianas would now be able to strike places like Hokkaido and Kyushu. He dictates a message for Horsfall and crew to write on a bomb. Crew members gather around bombs as the pilot writes the message, reading: 'To the war lords of Japan we have not forgotten. The B-29s will remind you again, again and again!'

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051679
U.S. Army Air Force Major General Haywood Hansell welcomes a B-29 and crew on their arrival on Isley Field, Saipan

U.S. Army Air Force Major General Haywood S. Hansell, Jr. Commander of the 21st Bombardment Command, welcomes B-29 pilot, Lieutenant D.O. Horsfall, and his crew, upon their arrival at Isley Field, Saipan, after their flight from Bolling Field, Washington, DC, where they had been seen off by the Army Air Forces Chief of Staff, General Henry (Hap) Arnold. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051680
Living conditions of the United States soldiers in Saipan during World War II.

United States soldiers in Saipan during World War II. Map of Pacific Ocean with China, Japan, Saipan. Island of Saipan. Living conditions of the soldiers. Pup tents, dugouts in the area. Runway with ocean in the background. Piles of equipment stacked up. Soldiers lift a crate on to a truck. Man pushes gas drum along rails. Jeep pulls two barrels in a trailer. Piled equipment and tents in the background. Soldiers ride a horse-drawn cart. Row of tents. Soldiers walk along the area. Tents in the foreground.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051681