Landing crafts and battleships underway off the shore of Iwo Jima during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II. Formation of U.S. Navy Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft in flight overhead. Landing crafts and battleship underway. Mount Suribachi in the background. Battleships fire on the island. Explosions and smoke rise over the island.
Beachhead activities in Iwo Jima, Japan during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II. Bulldozers move along beach, bow of LST (Landing Ship Tank) in the background. Damaged equipment on beach. U.S. soldier struggles with marine diesel motor. Beachhead scenes show general activities of LSTs on beach.
U.S. Army Engineers and their role in the preparations for the atomic bomb tests on Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Sandstone in April-May 1948. View of site for nuclear bomb testing. Engineer personnel leave the site and are transported by landing crafts. Landing crafts comes along side a ship. Crew climb cargo net up and come aboard the ship. Bombs explode on the site and smoke cloud rise during tests. Detonations shown include Test X-Ray, Test Yoke, and Test Zebra. The scenes that follow are all from before the tests, as engineers and personnel work to prepare the test site. Engineers work. Palm trees are removed. Crew works at construction site. Crane hoist construction material. Cubic yards of material are hoisted and placed by crane. Airstrips are built. Planes in flight. Various units in Joint Task Force 7 are recognized for their efforts in contributing to the success of the United States nuclear testing program in Operation Sandstone.
U.S. Navy Seabees (Construction Battalion) work at a beachhead in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Construction equipment uproots a tree. Seabees work at a camp area. Truck and crane drive on a muddy road. View of muddy road. Seabees load crates of material on to trucks. Beachhead, ships anchored in the background. LST (Landing Ship Tank) and LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry) on a reef off beachhead. Trucks being towed through shallow water in the foreground.
U.S. Navy Seabees (Construction Battalion) construct Bailey bridge in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Seabees push Bailey bridge across a stream. Bailey bridge in position. Seabees work on a Bailey Bridge. They carry reel and place it down. They work at the construction site. Trucks and vehicles pass down a road.
U.S. Navy Seabees (Construction Battalion) work on beachhead in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Seabees unload supplies from LST (Landing Ship Tank) at a beach head. Seabees on ramp of LST. They pull supplies for a constructing bridge. Fire burns fiercely on the deck of LST as it underway. Two LSTs underway.
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