German officers stand next to a large barrage balloon with German cross on it. The balloon has a basket on it and holds a German soldier. It is released from ground and it rises up. German soldier watches balloon through binoculars. Another soldier talks over phone. They sight enemy position with aid from balloon. German officer reads map. Scenes of German soldiers firing artillery at enemy targets from large caliber artillery guns. They push a small rail cart filled with artillery shells toward a Krupp K5 railway gun. Views of the Krupp K5 railway gun moving its cannon into position and firing shells. Shells exploding at enemy positions on land across a waterway. (World War II period).
Fleet of German Heinkel HE-111 bombers in formation over Soviet territory. Soviet fighter plane in flight. German aerial gunners at their positions fire machine guns at fighter plane. German pilot, co-pilot and aerial engineer seated in aircraft. Heinkel HE-111 bombers drop bombs. Bombs away. Explosions on ground. Aerial view of the city below, targeted by German aircraft, with explosions and smoke. (World War II period).
U.S. Marine Corps forces landing at Tarawa during World War II. United Sates Navy Carrier fighters F6F Hellcats headed for landing in the Tarawa Islet a Japanese base. Scenes of Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) ferrying U.S. Marines to the beach. View from inside LVT of Marines preparing for beach landing. Views from moving LVT of many other landing craft on their way to beach during Battle of Tarawa.
U.S. Marines Corps soldiers crawling on beach at Tarawa during World War II. Landing Ship Tank (LST) on shore and smoke at a distance are seen. Marines following a low wire on the beach. U.S. Navy Destroyer (DD) firing. Marines taking position and advancing during Battle of Tarawa.
U.S. Marines Corps wounded during World War 2 Battle of Tarawa. Marine lying on stretcher while blood is transfused into his body by a medic. Wounded Marine is carried by corpsmen on stretcher and lowered to a rubber boat while a plane passes over the island.
U.S. Marines wounded during Battle of Tarawa in World War 2. Injured soldiers carried to shore from LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) while other men advance. A soldier is carried on stretcher while another soldier shows bullet hole in his helmet. U.S. Marine on a stretcher with a large wound on his right leg.
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