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The Guadalcanal campaign in World War II
Major General Alexander Vandegrift, USMC, who, as Commanding General of the 1st Marine Division, also commanded other U.S. military units involved in the invasion of Guadalcanal in World War 2. He discusses those joint U.S. military operations. The U.S. Destroyer, USS Blue (DD-387) seen bombarding Guadalcanal.A B-17 bomber overhead. U.S. Marines decend rope net into landing craft of the attack transport, USS George Clymer (APA-27), later seen with the USS Harry Lee (APA-10) and numerous landing craft around them. A landing craft from the Harry Lee arriving and Marines jumping out. Many U.S. troops wading ashore from landing craft. Troops carrying supplies ashore. Officers salute as American flag is raised on rugged flag pole. Numerous Japanese prisoners of war marching and in outdoor confinement. Japanese prisoners being processed. Japanese soldier using shoe clamps to quickly climb a tall palm tree. Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr.decorating a flyer with the Distinguished Flying Cross. View of the medal.Halsey decorating marines, including Major General Alexander Vandegrift, USMC, seen wearing the Navy Cross. Sign on palm tree reading: "Hospital Station C-1-Med." Wounded inside hospital tent. Troops gathered for religious service. U.S. troops dug in and moving along jungle path. Fallen Japanese soldiers on shore of Guadalcanal.Smoke rising from Japanese bombing of Henderson Field and construction continuing with heavy equipment. A B-17 bomber landing on the field. Names on B-17s at the field, including: "Spook," "Leis-Lady,"and "Boomerang." A Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft taking off from Henderson field. Film concludes with parade of warships and overflight of warplanes (including a biplane).
U.S. military transport aircraft operating from primitive airfield in the Aleutians during World War II
U.S. military personnel gather around the door of a Navy R4D (Navy DC-3) parked on marsden matting ramp at an airbase in the Aleutian Islands (possibly Adak) during World War 2. Camera shifts attention to U.S. Army P-47E aircraft parked near the runway. Tents are pitched nearby and mountains are in the background. The P-40s display the characteristic yellow propeller spinners of the 11th Pursuit Squadron, “Aleutian Tigers,” but do not display more elaborate tiger markings. Back at the R4D, one of the Navy crew is checking passenger names as they board the aircraft. Next, the R4D transport plane is seen starting number 1 engine (#2 is already running). It takes off raising considerable dust as it gains speed. Its identification number, 4-R-107 is visible below the cockpit. After takeoff, it flies past a nearby mountain and circles back and buzzes the field, flying over the runway at about a thousand feet, as it proceeds on its way
Casualties are taken to a UH-1D Iroquois helicopter to take them to a station hospital in Vietnam.
Evacuation of casualties of the 173rd Airborne Brigade to a field hospital in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Men standing outside medical tents. Wounded on litter carried into a medical tent. Other injured patient is taken into the tent. The casualties are carried to a U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter which will take them to a station hospital. Men carry a litter patient with a medic holding a jar of glucose.
Activities of American troops on the Italian Front during World War II.
The U.S. Fifth Army in Italy during World War 2. Heavy rains slow advance of American forces. Soldier rides on hood of a jeep as Army vehicles make their way along flooded roads in Italy. A truck pulls a jeep back onto the road after it slid into a gully. Views of rivers that have become roaring torrrents. A pontoon bridge being destroyed by heavy currents. American troops assisting one who was injured in the floods. Infantrymen digging mud without much success until they get help from a construction caterpillar tractor with a large blade. A Red Cross worker struggles through the mud to carry a box filled with donuts for the troops. A carries the box, for her as she struggles to continue slogging through the muddy field. Lieutenant General Mark Clark, Commander of the Fifth Army, is seen eating one of the donuts, while standing in front of a tent, as the Red Cross worker also hands one to a Captain standing nearby. Red Cross worker passes donuts to other soldiers. Glimpse of a Roman Catholic mass being conducted by an Army Chaplain. Nearby, a camouflaged 155mm long tom gun fires at German positions on Mount Camino. American soldiers loading the gun. Other American soldiers watching the gun firing, from a somewhat sheltered position. Explosion is seen in distance from direct hit atop Mount Camino. American forces moving about during their own artillery barrages and firing mortars and bazookas. American wounded being brought on stretchers to a field hospital set up near the battle front. Doctors and medical corpsmen attend to patients in tent treatment areas. One carries supplies of blood plasma. A patient being given a transfusion. Women drawing water from a well in sight of the hospital. American infantry advancing through a gulley. A Truck carries American troops cautiously into an Italian village. German prisoners of war, under guard by American soldiers, wade through a stream on their way to the rear. Ambulances and jeeps gather near a medical reception area in a village, where wounded soldiers are brought on litters. Glimpse of local Italian civilians mingling with American soldiers.
U.S. troops and their improvised movie theaters in combat zones during World War II
A U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 airplane carrying movies among its cargo bound from New Caledonia to troops stationed at Bougainville, Solomon Islands, during World War 2. Views inside the airplane cabin, where troops sit alongside the cargo. Glimpse from cockpit of aircraft on final approach to land on the airfield. Troops unloading canisters of movie films from the C-47. (Handing the movie reels out of the C-47 is Russ Laming of the 13th Troop Carrier Squadron, a.k.a the Thirsty 13th.) Army truck carrying mail bags and movie films driving away from the airfield. U.S. soldiers walk to their makeshift movie tent from foxholes and fortified positions. Sign on the tent reads: "Bougainville Roxy, Tonights feature." Movie projector seen inside the tent, as soldiers enter. Views of movie theaters made out of logs and other available materials at various locations in the Pacific theater of operations. They range from simple and rugged to more elaborate, at rear locations, away from the front lines. U.S. servicemen racing to get the best seats in a theater, as the doors open for a movie. Servicemen walking into an open air theater. They are called to attention as the unit commander arrives and takes his seat. View of wounded soldiers recuperating in a hospital,where a movie camera is being set up in the ward. They are tended by a French nurse wearing a "flying nun" hat (possibly North Africa). Servicemen and women being seated in an outdoor theater, and other places, waiting to watch movies. Allied troops join Americans to watch U.S. movies. A theater sign announcing the week's movie program at a Royal New Zealand Air Force post in the jungles. Courier carrying film canister from a jeep into a jungle theater. Soldier mounting the film on projector. U.S. troops watching a movie outdoors, during rain storm.
Hideki Tojo in hospital after attempting suicide and Japanese people reads bulletins regarding Japanese defeat in Japan.
Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo attempts suicide in Japan. People walk outside a hospital. A sign board reads' U.S. 98th Evacuation Hospital'. Sergeant John Archinal gives blood to save Tojo. The doctors perform blood transfusion. A close view of Sergeant John Archinal. The gun from which Tojo shot himself. The troops look out from a window. The doctors treat Tojo in the hospital. A close up view of Tojo. Tojo on a bed in the 98th Field Evacuation Hospital. 1st Lt. Rebecca Schmidt, Hideki Tojo’s nurse, stands by his bedside. A view of the damaged buildings. The troops look at the damaged Imperial Diet building 1 Chome-7-1 Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan). Japanese Emperor Hirohito visits the damaged city before the surrender in World War II. The emperor looks at a chart on a table. His sub ordinates stand in the background. The U.S. troops read a sign which reads 'No Trespassing The Emperors palace'. Japanese boys bowing in front of the Imperial Palace. The Japanese people read bulletins. A woman distributes newspapers on the street in Tokyo. People crowd outside a movie theater. Japanese moviegoers buy tickets from a booth. A Japanese elderly man walking. The people wait for a tram or trolley or streetcar. They get in the tram. American troops ride the tram. Admiral William “Bull” Halsey rides a white horse. Admiral Halsey stands beside the horse and smokes. He sits on horseback and rides the horse.
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