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General Twining congratulates Pilots of U.S. Air Force who shot Japanese planes, in Guadalcanal Solomon Islands during WWII.

General Twining arrives to congratulate fighter Pilots of the U.S. Air Force, in Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II. General Nathan Twining steps out of his jeep and walks towards a group of Air Force Pilots. He congratulates Captain John Mitchell and then speaks to Pilots of the 339th Fighter Squadron. General Twining and other Pilots stand in front of a P-38 fighter airplane and talk. Pilots who shot three Zero Fighters and three bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJNAS) over Ki hill Airfield near Munda Point. The three Pilots, Captain Thomas Lamphier, Jr.,, Lieutenant Busby Frank Holmes and Lieutenant Alex E Barber pose for a photograph. (These three would later participate in U.S. Operation Vengeance, on April 16, 1943, in which they engage a group of Japanese aircraft, including one carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack. He would perish when they down the Mitsubishi G4M bomber carrying him.) Pilots leaving in a jeep. A Pilot stands on the wing of P-38 fighter, besides its canopy.

Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036188
U.S. Air Force runway strips and airfields at islands of Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II.

U.S. Air Force runway strips and airfields at islands of Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II. A new runway strip at Carney airfield being constructed for U.S. Air Force fighter aircrafts nearby the sea shore of the island. Landing strip between dense forests with coastal trees. equipment and trees cut down for the runway. Another landing strip with few planes parked and houses near side the strip.

Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036194
Various general activities of the U.S. Air Force at Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II.

Various general activities of the U.S. Air Force at Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II. P-38 planes take off among palm trees and tents of the U.S. airmen. P-38 patrolling the sky as seen from a watch tower. A single engine plane flying among clouds in sky.

Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036197
P-40, P-38 and P-39 airplanes of the U.S. Air Force at its base in Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II.

Air base of the U.S. Air Force at Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, South Pacific during World War II. Fighter airplanes taking off from the runway. P-40 of the U.S. Air Force with jaws painted on its nose takes off. Following it, the P-38 and P-39 airplanes also take off from a runway among palms of the island.

Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036200
U.S. President Truman and military Generals at official ceremony of raising the American flag in Berlin, post World War II.

President Harry S Truman of the United States visits Berlin after World War II. An official ceremony of raising the U.S. National Flag in Berlin. Military commanders and soldiers at the ceremony. President Harry Truman, Secretary Henry Stimson, General Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley, General Patton, General Clay and General Parks at the ceremony. The U.S. National Flag is raised and soldiers salute. Officials and Generals talk to each other.

Date: 1945, July 20
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036266
U.S. Military officers at North Field base on Tinian , Marianas Islands, pose in front of the B-29, Enola Gay

Atomic bombing mission in Japan by the United States Army Air Force, during World War II. A U.S. military base in North Field, Tinian Island in Mariana Islands, South Pacific. A group of U.S. Navy and Army Air Force officers stand in front of a B-29 bomber and talk to each other. The name of the B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay' painted on the nose of the bomber.

Date: 1945, August 14
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036275