Bombardment by U.S. 3rd Marine Division on Iwo Jima. Hospital ship USS Samaritan (AH-10) in foreground. Other ships in the bay. Fire in the background. An invasion fleet off Iwo Jima. Fire burns on the island. (World War II period).
D-Day on Iwo Jima, Japan. Beach area of Iwo Jima. U.S. destroyer in bay of Iwo Jima. Personnel on deck of destroyer. Guns on deck. Ships in the background.
D-Day on Iwo Jima, Japan. Beach area of Iwo Jima. U.S. Marines fire 155 Howitzer from gun emplacement. Navy personnel untangle a Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel(LSVP) from a Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM). Jeep floundering in surf. Personnel try to push it. Army personnel pull LCVP up on the beach. (World War II period).
D-Day on Iwo Jima, Japan. Beach area of Iwo Jima. U.S. Army and Navy personnel untangle a Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) from a Landing Craft Mechanized. Marine engine untangled from wreckage of LCVP. Troops on a Landing Ship Tank (LST). Gun crew fire 155 Howitzer. (World War II period).
Wreckage and debris in Munda, New Georgia Island, during World War 2. Workers clear field at Munda Point. Air Force construction team clear area using power shovel and road graders. Supply and ammunition base of the island. TBF planes taxi on runway. C-47 crew unload bomb carriers. Loaded bomb carriers move out towards flight line. Control Tower operators look at a P-39. It taxis and takes off. B-25 (Mitchell Bomber) makes forced belly landing.
A B-24 Liberator bomber with nose art painted name "Laden Maiden,"of the USAAF 5th Bombardment Group, sits with engines running,on Munda Point airfield, New Georgia Island, preparing to take off to bomb Japanese shipping near Truk, during World War 2. Broader view shows two squadrons of B-24s preparing for the mission as a rain storm sweeps the island. The aircraft begin taxiing for takeoff. One with nose art name "Tim-ber," shows 25 bombs, for missions, painted on its fuselage. One departing B-24 is seen to use a long takeoff run. Narrator describes difficulties encountered by one B-24 that had to ditch during the mission. Sequence shifts to post-mission scenes the day after the planes returned to Munda.Injured crew members from the ditched B-24, who had been rescued by a Navy PBY, are being transferred to a C-47 aircraft for evacuation to a medical facility. A B-24 is seen taking off on a new mission to bomb Japanese Naval base at Rabaul. View of control tower with several B-24s in formation overhead.
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