U.S. Marines climb into landing crafts from USS Bayfield (APA-33) during amphibious exercises at White Beach, Okinawa, japan. Sailor using a sledge hammer knocks away a hook on an anchor chain on the deck of USS Bayfield (APA-33). The anchor chain is let out through the hawser pipe. BMC (Chief Boatswain's Mate) gives a signal up on the upper deck of the ship. An officer with a grey helmet gives orders to sailors on the weather deck. One sailor gives a signal for the lowering of boats. LCMs (Landing Crafts, Mechanized) lowered from USS Bayfield (APA-33). Sailors on the deck tend to lines during the lowering of the landing crafts. The deck crew puts over a cargo net so that the marines may disembark into the landing craft alongside. 1-JV telephone talker on the deck. The marines climb down cargo nets into landing crafts alongside USS Bayfield. A coxswain in one of the boats.
U.S. landings on the Utah Beach for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. A line of Liberty ships scuttle to form a breakwater. Barrage balloons in the background. U.S. soldiers march on a pontoon causeway. (World War II period).
U.S. fleet heading for Iwo Jima beaches for invasion during World War II. Fleet of ships and boats off the beaches of Iwo Jima. A U.S. DD (destroyer ship) fires guns at Iwo Jima, Japan. LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) moves towards a beach, smoke rises from the beach. Landing crafts and LVTs underway toward a beach.
Invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan by U.S. forces during World War II. A U.S. BB (battleship) shells the beach. Mount Surabachi being attacked by shell fire. Smoke rising from Iwo Jima island.
Massive evacuation of American forces from North Korea during the Korean War. U.S. Army women nurses dressed in heavy winter garb, pose in a group as they await evacuation by sea, from Hungnam Harbor, North Korea. A group of U.S. Marines boarding a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI). A crane at the port, raising a net filled with personal gear of evacuating soldiers, and depositing it aboard a ship.
Evacuation of Hungnam involving the safe withdrawal of the bulk of UN forces in eastern North Korea. Korean refugees disembarking from boats, near a U.S. Landing Ship Tank (LST). They line up along the shore, where many others are already gathered. Another larger boat approaches, filled with more refugees. An adjacent boat displays the Republic of Korea flag. View from deck of the LST, through front loading doors, as a U.S. Marine Corps M-5H-6 International Harvester 2 1/2 Ton 6x6 Cargo Truck drives aboard. It slowly climbs the LST ramp. Scene shifts to deck of the LST Where a truck pulling an air compressor, arrives at top of ramp to join other trucks parked on deck. View downward from LST deck where more trucks are driving onto the ship's ramp. A stack of 55 gallon steel drums is seen on shore. More boats arrive carrying refugees. Those on shore move slowly aboard the LST. Many are seen lining the railings of the ship's deck.
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