Propaganda film 'The Price of Rendova' documents the taking of Rendova Island in the Solomon Islands during World War II. A naval task force assembles at Guadalcanal. Cargo is hoisted. Animated map shows the strategic importance of Rendova Island and that it is taken in order to facilitate operations against the air base at Munda. General MacArthur with other officers. Face of older officer. Big naval guns fire. Faces of tired and worried G.I.s. Landing crafts with soldiers are unloaded from a ship and they move towards Rendova Island. Amphibious vehicles land on the island. Troops take positions on the island. The island is covered with tall trees. Marines are attacked by Japanese snipers. The troops advance on the island. Coconut logs on the ground. The troops fire artillery. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Dead Japanese soldiers on the ground. Soldiers talk on a radio device. Signal officers wave semaphore flags to signal the troops on a beachhead. Essential materials needed for war, medical supplies and food are unloaded from a ship onto the landing crafts.
A U.S. Naval Task Force takes Munda in the Solomon Islands during World War II. The naval task force underway at sea. Soldiers with guns on landing crafts. The soldiers move towards Munda island. They disembark from the landing crafts. Crates, shells, food, ammunition and fuel drums are unloaded from the landing crafts and are arranged. Big guns and artillery are moved into position on the island. Coconuts trees are fell by using dynamite. Artillery is fired, explosions occur and smoke rises. The material needed for war - iron, rubber, medical supplies and ammunition. Dead lying on the ground. Wounded are evacuated and carried on stretchers to battalion aid stations. The wounded are treated.
Camp Kilmer in New Jersey, United States. Barracks bags lined up outside wooden barracks. U.S. soldiers check tags and place bags in proper order. The soldiers seated on the barracks bags smoke cigarette. Soldiers are wearing helmets and knitted fatigue caps. (World War II period).
Soldiers bound for war: U.S. troops entrain at the New York port for transportation to the European Theater during World War II. Soldiers carrying full field packs and rifles assemble outside barracks and march forward from Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. Interior of a moving troop transport train. A soldier peels and eats an orange. Other soldiers sleep, rest and look out of a window of the railroad train. The soldiers get off the train with their bags in New York. The New York skyline in the background.
U.S. troops prepare to entrain in New York for transportation to the European Theater during World War II. U.S. soldiers toss barrack bags to two sergeants standing on the top of barrack steps. The soldiers rush up the stairs. They take bags from the sergeants and enter the barracks.
U.S. troops entrain at the New York port of embarkation, United States for transportation to the European Theater during World War II. View of cars, a factory, buildings, a river and waving people as seen from a train window, including some in a building with signs, "Electro Dynamic Works Electric Motors, Elco Works Cruisers, Electric Boat Company.:" The citizens and war production workers are waving to the troops on board the railroad train, who are bound for service in World War 2. Factory workers wave from windows to wish the troops well. A suburban rail road station platform. Children near tracks wave to the passing train of troops, including children on steps of East 33rd Street rail station in Bayonne, New Jersey.
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