Camera pans walls of a Republican army base. Several statues stand on pillars between sandbagged fortifications. Barbed wire is seen in some locations. Camera pans down face of tall building showing shell holes in places. Sign next to elaborate entrance door refers to general mobilization. A Red Cross car displaying white flag rushes down empty street toward place where smoke is rising from rebel shelling. Another scene shows civilians running and one falling during a shelling attack. A shell explodes near the camera with black smoke billowing. The Red Cross car rushes to another location. City dwellers walk about near rubble from shelling. Boys look for shell fragments in the rubble. A woman holding a baby runs for cover. Another shell explodes nearby. Two civilians lie where they have fallen, victims of the shelling. (Narrator ascribes the shelling to German artillery.) A cyclist in uniform walks his bicycle through broken glass as he steps past the dead pair of victims.
Activities of the U.S. Navy during the Battle of Iwo Jima in Japan during World War II. U.S. Navy Admiral Richmond Turner and U.S. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal on flag bridge reading messages. They watch the target area through binoculars. Mount Suribachi, flag locker in the foreground. Smoke column rises from the base of Mount Suribachi. Soldiers fire gun from a destroyer. Smoke arising from explosions.
Activities of the U.S. 5th Marine Division at Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II Cruisers and destroyers bombard the beach. Marines aboard landing craft advancing towards the beach. Mount Suribachi in view. Explosions on the Iwo Jima beachhead. Explosions near a landing craft. Heavy columns of smoke arises from the base of Mount Suribachi.
Activities of the U.S. 5th Marine Division at Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Beach in view as troops advance up knoll. Marines pinned down by enemy fire on the beach. Smoking base of Mount Suribachi in the background. Troops advance towards the beach. Flame throwers crawl forward on the beach. Heavy columns of smoke arise due of firing.
Activities of the U.S. 5th Marine Division at Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Iwo Jima under bombardment. Shells burst including phosphorous shells. Mount Suribachi under bombardment. Smoke rises from the base. Phosphorous shells burst over Iwo Jima, Landing Ship Medium (LSMs) and other landing craft.
Activities of the United States Marine Corps 5th Division at Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. U.S. Marines aboard landing craft underway at sea. Various marines prepare to debark from the craft. Marines debark via landing net to small boat alongside. The base of Mount Suribachi under fire. Landing Ship Medium (LSM) loaded with troops, American flag flies from a flag mast as it gets underway for beach. Soldiers fire from battleships in the foreground. Smoke arises due to firing.
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