U.S. Navy and Marines engaged in live fire amphibious assault exercise. Explosions on beach as Navy and Marine aircraft fly overhead and a wave of landing craft carrying marines approaches. Next, the landing craft arrive at the beach and marines storm ashore and proceed over hills and rough terrain toward their objective. Numerous views of Marines charging over sand berms. Armor and vehicles being driven from landing craft through the surf. An M48 Patton tank comes ashore through the surf and drives toward the camera and then very close past it. tankers in top and forward hatches are seen. As it passes, a pair of wading vents can be seen on its rear deck. Closeup of its treads. Several tracked landing vehicles drive in a line along the edge of the beach. Closeups of some. Marine riflemen charging across the terrain. Fires burning. explosions occuring beside Marines running from their landing craft. Marines charging from parked helicopter as explosions occur nearby.
U.S. forces battle against the enemy on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II.. Animated map shows United States troops arriving on Green Beach. The troops fire at Japanese cave entrances. They advance with tanks. A captured Japanese anti aircraft gun. Soldiers open crates of captured mortar ammunition. Fire and explosions. The soldiers load and fire artillery.
U.S. forces battle against the Japanese on Saipan island, Mariana Islands during World War II. United States 2nd and 4th Marine Infantry Divisions advance with rifles in hand. Tanks fire on Japanese targets resulting in fire and explosions. Japanese women and children come out of caves. Japanese people jump off from cliffs to commit suicide. The tanks fire at Japanese caves.
U.S. forces battle against the Japanese on Saipan island, Mariana Islands during World War II. United States Marines get their ammunition ready and fire at Japanese positions resulting in fire and explosions. Dead Japanese inside a hut. United States soldiers raise the American flag. The soldiers salute the flag. Captured Japanese soldiers being taken in custody. They walk in a line on a dirt road. A fleet of aircraft in flight.
View of U.S. Army transport ship, "El Aquario," at dockside in San Francisco, California, preparing to get underway in support of the Army Air Corp Alaska Flight Project, in 1934. Views from aboard the El Aquario, as it makes its way out of San Francisco. View from amidship, forward to the pilot house. Views of surrounding scenery as the ship makes way in protected inland waters from Seattle Washington through Vancouver, British Columbia, and Southern Alaska. View on deck as the ship rolls while underway.. View in ship's dining hall during meal as she rolls slightly (not enough to upset the dishes). An isolated waterfront house seen along the way.
Views of harbor at Ketchikan, Alaska, from deck of the "El Aquario," supply ship supporting the U.S. Army Air Corps Alaska flight project in 1934. Camera pans across the harbor showing a steamship at dock and the settlement town of Ketchikan. A passenger steamship is seen with smoke from her stack, underway. A smaller steam ship underway. Crew members of the El Aquario, fish from her bow. One pulls in a small fish. Another one poses with a large fish. views of glassy calm waters from the El Aquario, underway after refueling at Ketchikan, followed by scenes as she moves into more open waters. Hills with snow on their tops.
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