View of Angaur island at sunrise at start of Battle of Angaur in World War II. Aerial view of aircraft carrier. Conning tower on USS Essex. Crew member speaking on on radio headset. Pilot in cockpit of Grumman F6F Hellcat. Fighter planes gathered on deck of the USS Essex (CV-9) near the Palau Islands. Grumman F6F fighters on board start after signal from crew in conning tower. Fighters take off from flight deck. Another Grumman F6F fighter is raised to deck using aircraft lift and takes off. Fighters in formation in the air. Battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43) and four cruisers bombard Japanese positions in Angaur. Explosion on top of a hill. Trees destroyed on the coast as seen from a United States Navy ship. Naval artillery firing at Angaur. Landing craft being deployed from ships to land on Angaur.
United States 81st Infantry Division troops relax in the middle of the Battle of Angaur in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Naked servicemen bathe and wash clothes. 81st Infantry Division “Wildcats” soldiers prepare a meal from a portable camp stove. Two of the soldiers are smoking cigarette and pipe. The soldier stirs from the metal can. He scoops some soup to taste. The soldier makes an “OK” hand gesture after tasting the soup. A soldier picks up a stray goat. They smile as they hold and pet the goat. A group of soldiers play with a Japanese record player. They laugh at the high-pitched warbled music from the record player.
United States 321st Regiment, 81st Infantry Division board LSTs for Peleliu Island during the Battle of Angaur in World War II. A ship leaves the port while soldiers wait for another ship. Infantry troops clear the jungle while searching for Japanese snipers on Angaur Island. A soldier hacks away tree branches. 81st Infantry Division “Wildcats” troops clear away leaves, branches, and vegetation. Bulldozers clearing bushes, debris, and soil. A road roller with spikes flattens ground. A soldier spins the propeller of a Piper L-4 Grasshopper scout plane to start it. The plane taxiing and taking off from the newly built airfield.
Aerial view of Peleliu Island during the Battle of Angaur in World War II. Map pointing to the location of Suicide Hill on Angaur Island. 81st Infantry Division “Wildcats” troops moving up a narrow gauge railway leading away from phosphate works into a narrow gorge called “Bloody Gulch”. Smoke from Japanese artillery is seen above the gorge. United States infantry soldiers advance along with tanks through Bloody Gulch. Tank operator talking through a radio microphone. Dramatized audio simulates tank communications while in Bloody Gulch. Infantry soldiers trail behind tanks. A tank is hit by Japanese artillery. Soldier runs past moving tanks. Wounded soldiers crawl and lay down in Bloody Gulch. Medics remove a casualty, running to avoid snipers. Infantry troops taking cover. Soldiers assemble a satchel charge. Soldiers run as explosion in front of tanks to clear the gulch. The second battalion resumes their advance. The second battalion splits up to start an encircling maneuver. Soldiers climbs while wearing flame thrower on his back. Machine gun fire towards Suicide Hill.
Faces of United States 81st Infantry Division “Wildcats” soldiers after the Battle of Angaur in World War II. A soldier smoking a cigarette. A tired soldier holding a rifle with bayonet. Soldier scoops food from GI ration and eats. A soldier chewing. A soldier sleeping at the foot of a tree. Medics dressing wounds of a heavily bandaged man. A young soldier eating while sitting on fallen tree trunk. An injured soldier with both eyes covered by bandages is led away. Soldier lying down. Medics evacuate injured patients. A soldier looks to the camera as medics treat his wounds. Soldiers sitting on top of a moving tank. Injured soldiers with dirty faces look to the camera. Logo that reads "Buy War Bonds--The Mighty 7th War Loan" superimposed over photo of the flag raising at Iwo Jima.
Manufacturing Edison batteries (also known as nickel-iron battery or NiFe battery) in West Orange, New Jersey, United States. View of the Edison Storage Battery Company Building (177 Main Street, West Orange, New Jersey, USA), the manufacturing facility for Edison batteries. Smoke emanates from vats. Motorized ceiling rack carries cylinders receiving nickel flake via electro plating. Aerial view of battery tube steel manufacture. Factory workers working in assembly lines to assemble batteries. The workers pack batteries for shipment. The four main parts of an Edison battery- negative plates (steel), container (steel), electrolyte (alkaline), and positive plates (steel)- on display. The steel positive plate and perforated steel tube which hold Nickel Hydrate on display. A finger touches the carbon steel ribbon that runs through a perforating machine to create battery tubes. A pen points to the perforation of the carbon steel ribbon. Machines nickel plate steel ribbons. Man places reels of steel ribbons in a tub. Men pushes the tubs into an automatic machine. A machine winding steel ribbons into tubes. Closer view of the steel tube showing its spiral pattern. Hand holding a steel tube. The manufacturing of nickel flake by an electro plating process. Metal sheet cylinders lifted out from vats of nickel. The cylindrical rolls of metal sheet are lowered to alternating vats of copper and nickel. Man unfolds a nickel-copper sheet. A machine cuts the nickel-copper sheet into small pieces. The copper in the nickel-copper pieces is chemically dissolved in a electro plating vat. The positive tubes are loaded with alternate layers of nickel hydrate and nickel flake. Man fits the tubes into a metal mold. Nickel hydrate and nickel flakes are fed into a machine. The man takes off the metal mold, taking the tubes. Cross section of a steel tube. Steel rings on a machine. Man counts the 8 steel rings of the tube. A woman mounts the tubes and presses them into a permanent position in a nickel-plated steel grid. A finished positive plate. A man mounts positive plates on the pole piece. He screws them into place. View of the negative plate, showing its perforated steel pockets holding iron oxide. Machines fold the perforated steel ribbons into Negative Pockets. A worker inserts Negative Pockets into a metal mold. A machine fills the Negative Pockets with iron oxide. Worker mounts the Negative Pockets in a nickel-plated steel grid. A machine secures the Negative Plates by a pressure of 120 tons. The Negative Plates are equidistantly spaced on the negative pole piece. Worker assembles the positive and negative plate groups together. A woman inserts additional insulation between each plate. The container is made of a nickel-plated steel sheet folded and welded to form one piece. Workers carefully inspect and insulate the assembled elements before the elements are permanently sealed in the container. Workers wearing goggles fill the finished battery cells with alkaline solution. Man closes the Filler Cap of the battery cell. Two terminals are seen on top of battery cell. Quality control inspectors check the finished products. A Weston DC voltmeter. A man dips battery cells into an insulating preservative compound. He places the battery cells in trays. Another man connects the cells in trays.
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