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Animated map shows U.S. Aircraft Task Force bombarding Tinian and Saipan Island in the Mariana Islands.

Animated map shows Saipan, Marian Islands. Animation shows U.S. forces acquiring the island from the Japanese during World War II. Aircraft Task Force 58, 52 and 53 approach Tinian and Saipan islands. Aircraft destroy anti aircraft guns, sugarcane fields, coastal areas, buildings and communication centers on the islands.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064872
Animation shows U.S. aircraft bombing Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II.

Animated map shows Saipan in the Marian Islands. Animation shows U.S. forces acquiring the island from the Japanese during World War II. Pictures of American ships approaching the island. Marines aboard a ship look at maps. Animation shows United States aircraft bombing Saipan island.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064874
Crewmen examine a B-29 bomber of U.S. Air Force at a base, damaged during bombing mission in Nagoya Japan, during World War II.

B-29 bombers of the United States Army Air Force at Isley Field base in Saipan, Mariana Islands, during World War II. Crew members examining a B-29 bomber after its return from a bombing mission over Nagoya in Japan. Crew members climb scaffolds to reach to the engine. The damaged engine of the bomber. Crew members examine damage caused to one of the wings. A man looks at a hole made by bullet strike in the fuselage of the plane.

Date: 1945, January 14
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036245
American forces capture the city of Garapan on Saipan in the Mariana Islands.

The capture of Garapan on Saipan in the Marianas Islands, by the Americans. American Naval and artillery bombardments destroy the last Japanese strongholds in cliffs north of Garapan city in the Mariana Islands. Infantrymen and tanks advance. An enemy sniper is burnt out. A Japanese bunker is destroyed. Machine gun crew fires and throws grenades at the enemies. Enemies on a cliff shot down. Some of the Japanese troops (and island civilians fearful of American forces) jump off cliffs to commit suicide. Troops line up the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers. Japanese troops surrender. A U.S. 2nd Marine Division cemetery. View of the names of the marines on the gravestones. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050448
B-29 Superfortress aircraft of the U.S. 314th and 73rd Bomb Wings during World War II

Aerial views of B-29 Superfortress of the 314th Bomb Wing, displaying the Square P tail code of the 39th Bomb Group. It is in flight and flying around the coast of Guam, Marianas Islands, during World War 2. In the far distance, a B-29 is seen taking off from North Field, Guam airstrip. In separate sequence, a B-29 from the the 73rd Bomb Wing, displaying Plain T tail code of the 498th Bomb Group, lands at Isley Field, Saipan, and taxis behind a follow-me jeep. B-29 of the 497th Bomb Group, with tail code Plain A, seen parked on the field.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067206
B-29 bomber lands on a cloudy day at Isley Field base of U.S. Army Air Force at Saipan in Mariana Islands, during WWII.

B-29 bombers arrive at Saipan in Mariana Islands during World War II. B-29 bomber aircrafts of the 11th Commanding Unit of the United States Army Air Force land at landing strip of their base at Isley Field in Saipan. B-29 bomber makes a landing contact with the landing strip on a cloudy day. Clouds in the sky of Saipan are visible.

Date: 1944, October 12
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036183