U.S. ships in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Survivors of USS Bunker Hill in water. A destroyer escort underway.
A U.S. Navy aircraft burns on the deck of a ship underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A United States Navy F6F Hellcat aircraft lands on the deck of a ship and explodes in flames. Fire fighters rush to the aircraft. They spray chemical foam and water on the fire and the burning belly tank.
Atrocity victims in Tinian, Mariana Islands during World War II. A dead body in water. Mutilated semi naked dead bodies on rocks. More dead bodies. U.S. 4th Division Marines near a jeep on which a loudspeaker is mounted. A Japanese interpreter in civilian clothes speaks into a microphone. Marines around him.
United States 4th Marine Division in Tinian, Mariana Islands during World War II. Marine Corps officers walk forward. Marines standing nearby. United States Marine Corps Major General Clifton Bledsoe Cates salutes. USMC Lieutenant General Holland Smith and U.S. Navy Admiral Raymond Spruance also salute. The officers converse.
Opening scene shows an M8A1 75mm Howitzer motor carriage (variant of M8, using M5A1 Stuart tank chassis). It moves slowly toward the camera along a dirt road on Saipan during World War 2. Closeup shows short gun barrel and driver in turret above, speaking on radio. Bodies of many Japanese soldiers are seen, recently killed in final attacks culminating in their organized suicide assault (AKA "the Tanapag Plain banzai attack") on July 6th and 7th, 1944. A marine throws a hand grenade at a clump of foliage. (Note: Principal American defenders included units of the 105th Infantry, that bore the brunt of the assault, together with 165th Infantry; 23rd Marines; 24th Marines; 25th Marines; 20th Marine,Engineers; and 10th Marines, plus supporting artillery units.
Camera pans past body of fallen Japanese soldier to U.S. Marines spread out along a shoreline as landing craft maneuver nearby and an American aircraft flies low overhead. Japanese prisoners along with women and children walk in a line. Glimpse of body of a dead Japanese soldier. Another group of Japanese prisoners and civilians. Several stand near American soldiers looking out at the small craft maneuvering offshore. A man (interpreter) speaks into a microphone, giving instructions to the Japanese persons on the shore. Body of dead Japanese woman. Bodies of numerous dead Japanese soldiers along the shore. Japanese prisoners with shovels begin recovering the bodies, placing them on makeshift litters and carrying them away.
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