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Operation of United States Coast Guard in Okinawa and Iwo Jima, Pacific Theater during World War II

Overseas activities of United States Coast Guard in World War 2. February 19, 1945, U.S. Marines invade Iwo Jima in Pacific Theater. Naval guns and aircraft bombard Iwo Jima. Mountain in the background. Aircraft in flight. Marines and Coast Guardsmen aboard landing craft. Marines landing on Iwo Jima under heavy Japanese fire. Destroyed landing ships litter water's edge. Marines hunkered down and treating wounded, under fire. LSTs and other ships at established beachhead. Vehicles drive onto beach. April 1, 1945, Marines attack Okinawa. Navy warships bombard Okinawa with heavy guns and continuous rocket fire. Beachhead is established against light resistance. Japanese kamikaze aircraft attack American invasion ships. Several ships are hit and sunk. Surviving sailors are helped aboard rescue boats. Antiaircraft fire from American ships fills sky with smoke and flak. A kamikaze aircraft crashes in the sea. Sky filled with American bombers. Aerial view of Atomic bomb explosion over Nagasaki Japan on August 9, 1945. Raising American Flag on Japan homeland.

Location: Iwo Jima
Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041749
U.S. Army aircraft bombing raids on Japanese cities in 1945, and atomic bomb explosion in World War 2.

Air raids and battle in Japan in the Pacific Theater near the end of World War II. A cemetery of United States military soldiers in the Japanese island of Okinawa. Memorial at the tombstone of Ernie Pyle built by the 77th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. General Doolittle, General Henry Arnold, General George Kenney, General Ennis Whitehead and other officers during a discussion standing before planes at the 48th Air Force base. B-29 aircraft advances towards Tokyo. Bomber aircraft dropping of a number of guided bombs towards their targets. Targets include Japanese airplane factories, shipping industry, military supply chains in the cities of Tokyo, Nagasaki, Nagoya, Okinawa and Yokohama of Japan. Explosion and smoke arises from bombed targets on ground. Aerial wide and close up views of a B-29 aircraft in flight. Narrator notes that on 05 August 1945, Enola Gay, a B-29, carries the atomic bomb and flies towards Hiroshima. Atomic explosion seen signifying the one in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, but narrator indicates the image seen is that of the first atomic explosion (the Trinity test) during on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico. Immense cloud of smoke and light. This atomic explosion, the first of two, was pivotal in compelling Japan to surrender unconditionally. Film ending includes public service announcement image "Buy Bonds. Hold Them. Victory Loan."

Location: Japan
Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036307
United States 6th Army soldiers aboard a ship as they move to invade Los Negros in the South West Pacific during World War II.

The American campaign against the Japanese in the South West Pacific during World War II. United States 6th Army troops assembled on a dock before the invasion of Los Negros in the South West Pacific. A convoy of United States ships underway in the Pacific Ocean. Soldiers aboard a ship as they clean weapons, sew and play a car game. African American soldier cleaning a rifle. A soldier shaves as another one eats his meal aboard a ship off the coast of Hollandia. Three African American soldiers sit together and view a letter that the middle soldier is reading. Two soldiers read as others write letters. An aircraft lands on the deck of the ship.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1944, February
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059148
A section of a map shows the islands around Guam in the Mariana Islands

United States Army Air Force operations in the Mariana Islands during World War II. A section on a map of the South Pacific. The islands around Guam on the map.

Location: Mariana Islands
Date: 1945, September 13
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067208
Animation about the spread of malaria among the Allied soldiers in Asia and Private Snafu being bitten by Anopheles Annie.

Animation depicts the spread of malaria among soldiers fighting during World War II. Anopheles Annie speaks about how she managed to spread malaria in South Pacific, India and North Africa . A sign on a door reads ' Off limits'. A soldier reads a book titled ' Malaria Discipline'. Anopheles Annie bites a man and spreads malaria. Malaria control measures being adopted and Anopheles being killed. Patients suffering from malaria in beds. A graph shows the numbers of malaria cases. Anopheles Annie looks at pictures of Private Snafu. Anopheles attacks Snafu.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059191
U.S. Military officers at North Field base on Tinian , Marianas Islands, pose in front of the B-29, Enola Gay

Atomic bombing mission in Japan by the United States Army Air Force, during World War II. A U.S. military base in North Field, Tinian Island in Mariana Islands, South Pacific. A group of U.S. Navy and Army Air Force officers stand in front of a B-29 bomber and talk to each other. The name of the B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay' painted on the nose of the bomber.

Location: Tinian Marianas Islands
Date: 1945, August 14
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036275
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