D-Day + 7 on Iwo Jima during World War 2. View of Japanese wooden crate in debris and sea grass. A bottle of Saki sits next to it. A U.S. marine examines it closely and finds a wire connected to the crate (a booby trap). He cuts the wire, removes the bottle, and ties a red warning flag by the crate. Camera focuses on a wrecked Japanese 75mm wooden-wheeled mountain gun with several shells on the ground nearby, and then on the breech of, what appears to be a wrecked 10cm wooden-wheeled cannon with a shell in the sand next to it.
A U.S. Marine holding a container of blood plasma, administers a transfusion, to a wounded marine in a stretcher on sands of Iwo Jima, during World War 2. Closeup of the wounded marine. Closeup of another marine having his wounds dressed with bandages. Closup of a smiling, but weary, marine. Smoke rising near the shore.
U.S. Marine infantry in defensive positions along a sand berm on Iwo Jima, during World War 2. Marine speaking on SCR-300 portable radio, and another looking through binoculars. In distance, marines are seen moving about on a broad barren stretch of land. They advance in groups to take up positions in hilly terrain. A Japanese shell bursts, followed by several more.
Formation of U.S Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers, flying over Iwo Jima during World War 2. View from one of the aircraft of Japanese air field below. Nightime view of American anti-aircraft fire directed at Japanese bombers attacking Saipan. Explosions and fire silhouetting American aircraft on Saipan's Isely field during Japanese air raid. Burning U.S. B-29 bombers. Scene changes to Japanese aircraft destroyed on the ground at the air base on Iwo Jima. Bodies of dead Japanese airmen on the air field. Later view of P-51Ds from the 21st Fighter Group at Central Field on Iwo Jima, in the summer of 1945,after the field had been substantially upgraded to allow B-29 operations. A B-29 is seen displaying an "F" tail code. A formation of B-24 Liberator bombers in flight on a bombing raid. Waist gunner inside a B-24 firing at attacking Japanese fighter aircraft. A Japanese fighter going down in flames at night. View from a B-24 of another, off its left wing, flying in formation with its number 3 engine shutdown and propeller feathered. View from B-24 bombing oil facilities at Balikpapan, Borneo. Bombs bursting on the ground. Glimpse of B-24s in formation. Aerial views of bomb bursts carpeting target areas below. Aerial view of B-24s flying above smoke rising rapidly from bombs bursting below. View of bomb craters left below (probably from later reconnaissance flight).
President Harry S. Truman, in shirt and tie, without his jacket, and wearing a sailors hat, strolls along the deck of the heavy cruiser, USS Augusta(CA-31) as she makes way in the Atlantic headed toward Europe, following the end of World War 2. A member of his party points out something of interest on the deck. The Augusta test firing her 5 inch guns. Turret 3 main battery 8 inch 55 caliber guns fire one salvo. Views of bow waves and ship's wake astern, as the Augusta and accompanying ships proceed at 27 knots.
United States Marine Corps raid on Japanese posts at the island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. U.S. Sherman tanks drive down a hill. Marines carry their injured Group Commander on a stretcher. Colonel Cushman Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion points out targets to Captain Schmidt. Officers study maps and plan strategies in a trench.
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