The invasion of Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. Japanese prisoners carry Japanese wounded on a stretcher. The wounded Japanese on the stretcher on the ground. Japanese prisoners sit near the wounded. U.S. Army troops arrive as a relief. The soldiers stand and talk. The troops carrying guns march through mud.
Pre-invasion activities of United States Army Rangers in Weymouth, England during World War 2. The rangers walk past an American Red Cross tent, adjacent to Greenhill Gardens, Weymouth, where they receive coffee and doughnuts before sailing. A sign at the tent reads: "From the folks back home through the American Red Cross." A U.S. guard and a British guard patrol Weymouth Seafront, beside a gun emplacement on the esplanade in front of the Jubilee Clock Tower. An insignia on the ramp of Landing Ship Tank 357 (LST-357) reads '357' and shows a stork carrying a baby with the words 'We Deliver'. The ramp is raised.
Naval activities in the English Channel during World War II. U.S. soldiers carry dead on litters along a dock area. Ambulances in the foreground. The bodies of the dead on a warship. The dead and wounded are carried ashore. Legs of a dead soldier visible in an ambulance. The soldiers near the ambulances.
Naval activities in the English Channel during World War II. Ambulances in a dock area. A warship carrying soldiers arrives at the shore. U.S. soldiers load the wounded soldiers into the ambulances. The soldiers carry dead on litters.
Smoke rising from bombs exploding almost obscures bombs dropping from B-29s on a large Japanese city, on a river, during World War 2. B-29s seen passing through the smoke, as viewed from the camera plane flying above them. Scene shifts to an airfield, where a P-51D Mustang fighter plane is landing, while another is taxing the opposite way, along the other side of the runway. Other U.S. Army Air Forces warplanes seen in the background include: B-29s and B-24s. The P-51 lands, while watched by a group of airmen standing by with crash equipment and fuel trucks, parked next to a large tent. It pulls off the active towards the group of airmen. Another P-51 lands as two take off from midfield. Several airmen watch the operations, atop a hill where they are silhouetted against the sky.
The construction of the Golden Gate Bridge spanning the Golden Gate in the United States. Workers paint suspensions of the bridge. Strands are wrapped with wires. The strands are lifted in a hydraulic jack. The strands on a cable saddle. The strands are adjusted at an anchorage. A strand shoe used to fix a strand in a perfect position. A solid pin is inserted by workers to fix the strand. Air circulation provided between the strands. Men come in a carriage after the completion of the bridge. Engineers stand on the bridge. A cable compacted by a machine. A steel ring clamped to the strands compact the cable. Workers work on compaction. An engineer checks the dimensions of the compacted cable. A cable casting tied over the strands.
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