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U.S. Marine Navajo Code talker operates TCS radio in MZ radio jeep, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in World War II.

U.S. Marine Corps communication activities at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in World War 2. Radio retransmittion station. Two Marines operate BC-659 radio. View of radio length hook up, and output antenna. Native American Indian Navajo code talker speaking on TCS radio set in the back of a U.S.M.C. MZ radio jeep.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands

Date: 1943, January 1

Duration: 1 min 22 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

Clip: 65675071782

U.S. Battleships in a convoy of warships in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

USS Birmingham in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2. A South Dakota class Battleship (possibly the Alabama) and then, North Carolina class Battleships, sail past USS Birmingham. In the background is the USS Enterprise. A fleet of U.S. warships underway at sea. Airplanes fly over an aircraft carrier.

Location: Pacific Ocean

Date: 1944, July 8

Duration: 1 min 29 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

Clip: 65675071808

Navy film about amphibious assaults. German films about the building of the German coastal defenses known as the "Atlantic Wall."

U.S. Navy film entitled, "the Battle for the Beaches." Several Higgins boat landing craft arrive at a shore and U.S. soldiers leave them to run ashore. Scene is then overlayed by the title slate. View of the White Cliffs of Dover, England. British civilians preparing defenses during World War 2. Civil Youth loading sand bags and erecting sand bag parapets around buildings. Home guard troops march up a road carrying rifles. British defenders occupying fortified positions They stand along a coastline looking out at sea. Street scene in an English village. Guards walking up along a barbed wire fence erected on the outskirts of the village. Film shifts to the German coastal Atlantic Wall defenses. German troops march along sandy shores containing all manner of obstacles at the water's edge. German officers stand on an overlooking cliff, and peer through binoculars. German sentry and large coastal gun barrel under camouflage net are silhouetted against light sky. Three German officers confer over plans for coastal defenses. View from above of slave laborers working and shoveling sand as they build defenses. German soldiers dismantling wooden forms around completed concrete fortifications. Glimpse of a huge German coastal gun being raised by a crane with heavy steel cables, as it is steadied by dozens of workers with hands on its barrel. German troops manning a machine gun in coastal defense position where a twin mounted antiaircraft gun is also seen. Momentary view of two German soldiers walk past rotating barrel of a huge coastal defense gun under a camouflage net. Workers, with shovels, placing fresh concrete to build up a section of concrete barriers along the coast. Allied troops storming a sandy shore from landing craft, as shells explode near them; possibly related to 1944 D-Day. One contingent are British soldiers. American troops landing at a beach from landing craft. Dead allied soldiers lying in the surf. Film shifts abruptly to U.S. Lieutenant General Mark Clark with some officers in Italy. In another switch of war theaters, General Douglas MacArthur is seen congratulating crew of a B-25 named "Smiling Jack." U.S. troops, in a training exercise, storming ashore from Higgins boats directly and closeup at the camera. They take up defensive positions in the sand, and move a jeep towing a field artillery piece.

Location: European Theater

Date: 1944

Duration: 2 min 23 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675071819

Japanese amphibious assault on Pacific Island early in World War II

First scene shows Japanese soldiers in a landing craft displaying their Naval Rising Sun flag, during World War 2. Other landing craft are behind them in the background. Closeup of Japanese soldiers transferring from small boats to climb aboard a transport ship. Japanese soldiers, in small boat, watch the large transport ship leaving the harbor. Brief glimpse of Japanese troops rushing ashore from landing craft, followed by them climbing up a concrete structure with black smoke billowing in the background. Map reflecting Japanese territorial ambitions in the Pacific, emanating from Japan.

Location: Pacific Theater

Date: 1941

Duration: 21 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: None

Clip: 65675071821

U.S. soldiers train for amphibious assaults in World War II.

American soldiers are assembled on outdoor stands on a sand beach in World War 2. Next, soldiers are seen climbing down rope nets on a stand designed to simulate leaving a troop ship. Brief closeup of some of the soldiers descending the nets. Change of scene to a sandy area shows soldiers in a simulated landing craft rushing out of it in a practice drill. Soldiers in wheeled vehicles simulating landing craft armed with machine guns. Troops, in live fire training, crawl over water-filled ditches as a trainer fires a Browning M1917 30cal machine gun across the area. Shells bursting in the area. A soldier stretches himself in prone position across a barbed wire fence. Other soldiers climb over him to cross the fence. Several combat soldiers holding rifles which are used as a ladder for climbing a barbed entanglement.

Location: United States USA

Date: 1942

Duration: 37 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

Clip: 65675071823

Mixture of scenes from Cairo and Teheran converences with glimpses of Soviet troops on the move and views of bombers and landing craft as well as an atomic test in the Pacific ocean.

Opening scene shows Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek seated with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Madam Chiang in their Cairo meeting at a residence of the American Ambassador to Egypt, Alexander Kirk, on November 25, 1943, during World War 2. Foreign ministers of the countries stand behind their leaders. Closeups of the three Country's leaders. Scene jumps to Teheran, with Soviet Leader, Joseph Stalin, President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, seated on a veranda of the Soviet Embassy. Suddenly scenes of tanks, trucks, and Soviet troops moving on the Eastern front are seen. Some of the troops move by horse-drawn sleighs through the snow. A line of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 bombers taxiing on an airfield. View from a B-17 in flight. View f as a cluster of bombs falls from B-17 and explodes on the ground. Animated map illustrating paths of aircraft attacks against the German Atlantic Wall from England. Landing craft underway in an amphibious assault. Brief view from a ship of a post-war test atomic explosion in the Pacific ocean

Location: European Theater

Date: 1944

Duration: 60 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

Clip: 65675071829

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U.S. Marine Navajo Code talker operates TCS radio in MZ radio jeep, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in World War II.

U.S. Battleships in a convoy of warships in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

Navy film about amphibious assaults. German films about the building of the German coastal defenses known as the "Atlantic Wall."

Japanese amphibious assault on Pacific Island early in World War II

U.S. soldiers train for amphibious assaults in World War II.

Mixture of scenes from Cairo and Teheran converences with glimpses of Soviet troops on the move and views of bombers and landing craft as well as an atomic test in the Pacific ocean.