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Aftermath of Japanese air attacks on Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands, in World War II
The aftermath of the Japanese bombing of Dutch Harbor, June 3 & 4 1942, during World War 2. Scenes include the bombed ship, S.S. Northwestern, which was being used as housing for construction crews. The docked steamer was damaged by bombs from "Val" dive bombers launched by the Japanese aircraft carrier "Junyo". Smoke rises from an oil tank as it burns. Bombed & wrecked trucks at the island. Also shown are bomb damage and fires at Fort Mears, Dutch Harbor.
Japanese light cruisers plow through stormy seas in Aleutian waters during winter in World War II
Heavy seas cover foredeck of a Japanese light cruiser making way in Aleutian waters during winter in World War 2. Officers on bridge, one using sextant. Wind drives waves over the ship's ice-covered deck. Ice covers anchor chain and gun barrel. Sailors chop ice from gun barrel,lifelines, deck and base of ship's superstructure. Sailor throws huge chunk of ice overboard. View from lower deck shows another light cruiser astern. Windshield wiper clearing bridge window. Crew members in heavy cold weather gear. A sailor aloft using semaphore flags.
Japanese warships come under attack by U.S. planes in pacific during World War II.
Japanese warship placing mines, during World War 2. Japanese marines board boats lowered from a ship and begin rowing them. Bombs dropped from U.S. aircraft burst in water near Japanese ships and near the Japanese marines in the boats. Japanese machine gunners on a ship fire at American aircraft in flight overhead. A U.S. Martin PBM Mariner flying boat, at extremely low altitude, launches a torpedo and climbs sharply over its intended target (Japanese warship). American warplanes flying overhead. Crew on Japanese ship drop buoys marking locations of mines.
Japanese forces assert control over Hong Kong during World War II.
Scenes after fall of Hong Kong to Japanese forces during World War 2. Formation of Japanese Aichi D3A (Val) dive bombers in flight over Hong Kong. Large formations of other Japanese airplanes also over Hong Kong. victorious Japanese forces formally assert possession of Hong Kong by parading on Queens Road, as military band plays. Officers on horseback lead the parade, as Japanese troops line the roadway.
Amphibious operations in Italy, during Operations Husky and Avalanche. General hazards of wartime amphibious assaults including those in the Pacific Theater in World War II.
American soldiers in Italy, during Allied Operation Husky, and Operation Avalanche in World War 2. In landings during invasion of Salerno, Italy, soldiers pause their movements while two use a detector to search for possible buried mines. They detect one and are seen carefully digging it up from the sandy soil. Soldiers unroll steel matting across an area of beach. Close-up of heavy trucks moving across the matting. A bulldozer uses a cable to pull a section of temporary docking out of an LST (Landing ship tank). Troops move across several sections of such docking as they make their way onto the shore. A sherman tank making its way toward the shore . More heavy equipment coming ashore from LSTs, including a US M1 155mm “Long Tom” Gun. The gun being towed on shore, as trucks and jeeps maneuver through shallow water nearby. A long line of jeeps and trucks moving inland. Military vehicles being offloaded from the British Landing Ship Tank (HM LST-200). U.S. troops moving on a beachhead, along with artillery pieces, and vehicles. Soldiers carrying boxes of supplies and ammunition and struggling with large wooden crates of such, in shallow surf, and using a roller conveyor to offload some heavy items from a ship. A landing craft suspended from a cable operated A-Frame on wheels (in the water). At this point the thrust of the film shifts to illustrate the hazards of amphibious operations, in general. Swamped vehicles and a landing craft in the surf. The beach littered with damaged and swamped landing craft and equipment, including, among others, a landing craft from the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). A huge explosion in the water. Glimpse of a German Junkers Ju 87 (Stuka) dive bomber attacking while being shot down by a U.S. sailor firing an anti-aircraft gun . View from above of sailors firing twin bofors 40mm antiaircraft cannons from an emplacement on a ship. Several German Junkers Ju 87 planes maneuvering as they attack. Quad bofors antiaircraft guns firing from a ship. More attacking Ju-87 dive bombers on the attack. A dramatic explosion and smoke from the Liberty ship SS Robin Rowan after being hit by a German bomb off the coast of Gela, Sicily on July 11, 1943. A landing ship burning from German bombing, off Gela, Sicily, with its deck full of halftrack and personnel carrier vehicles. The film continues the theme of losses encountered in wartime amphibious assaults, by shifting to the Pacific theater of operation, where a Landing Ship Tank (LST) is seen ablaze, off Guadalcanal, after being hit by Japanese shelling. View from beach with barbed wire, ashore, of the burning LST. Sherman tanks lost in a conflagration aboard an LST. Sailors carry a casualty on a litter, and place it next to other fallen crew members, on deck.
Abandoned Japanese artillery and a ship at Kiska in Aleutian Island, Alaska
Abandoned Japanese 105mm, twin Bofors and a 40 mm anti aircraft guns at Kiska in Aleutian Island, Alaska. An abandoned supply ship beached at Kiska, during World War 2.
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