Site of the first Nike-Hercules missile installation in Taiwan. Beachcraft Corporation Engineer, John A. Stroot, briefs a Chinese and an American officer on operation of the U.S. ARMY MQM-61A drone plane. Mechanic uses a machine to rotate the propellers of the drone. Men near the drone plane.
Animation depicts various means of detecting sneak attack craft and protecting harbors. It illustrates ways of detecting a sneak torpedo through means like multi terrain loop and short pulse herald. A man in a control room speaks on a phone. A human torpedo underwater. A torpedo dives under the water. Detection device used to detect the presence of torpedoes in water. A technician works on the control panel of the detection device. A graph being printed. Short pulse herald technique being used to to detect torpedoes underwater. A radar detects the presence of torpedoes in sea. A torpedo underway on the surface and underwater. Effectiveness of torpedo nets. (World War II period).
United States Marines Corps in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Dead Japanese soldiers on a beach. U.S. Marines inspect the dead bodies of Japanese soldiers. The Japanese prisoners seated under palm trees in a field. Captured Japanese soldiers behind a fenced area. Japanese prisoners being made to march. A U.S. Navy medical Corpsman examines the prisoners, some of whom look starved, thin and emaciated. A Japanese soldier enters the fenced area. Japanese prisoners seated in a field. One of them smokes a cigarette.
U.S. Marines in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Men in a field as they work to fill bomb crates. A Marine keeps a vigil as he looks through a pair of binoculars. The men fill up bomb craters. A roller levels the earth to make an airstrip. An aircraft comes in for a landing. The aircraft on the strip with the Marines gathered around it. U.S. Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz lands and is greeted by officers.
An Allied campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Mechanics work on a U.S. Marine Corps SBD Dauntless aircraft. A man loads a gun aboard the aircraft. Bombs lying in a field. A man fuels the aircraft. A pilot gets in the cockpit of the aircraft. The aircraft takes off from a field. Men load a bomb under the wing of an SBD Dauntless aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off. A U.S. Navy F4U Corsair aircraft lands and taxis on a field.
A United States campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II. U.S. Navy Admiral Chester W. Nimitz decorates U.S. Marines. He pins up medals on to the Marines. The Marines lined up as they are being decorated.
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