U.S. 3rd Battalion 1st Marines advance through Yasusu village in Okinawa. Tank atop a hill. Tanks fire from top of hill. Marines with packs on moving up through ravine. Bombs explode in a field in background. Mortar barrage explodes on ridge. Smoke belching forth from strikes. Marines move up towards Kings Ridge and Sugar Loaf Hill. Marines behind embankment, communications post in foreground. Marines run along the road at the back of ridge. (World War II period).
U.S. 3rd Battalion 1st Marines advance through Yasusu village in Okinawa. A Marine throws smoke grenade at Japanese position at embankment. White phosphorous grenade explosions. Marines come back after taking cover behind small embankment, marines running at high port. They move over crest of hill.
U.S. 3rd Battalion 1st Marines advances during mop up of Yasusu village in Okinawa. Shows white phosphorous explosions on hill. Tanks fire in the background. (World War II period).
Military policeman standing guard in front of a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P-40 aircraft, on the Torokina Air Strip, at Bougainville, in World War 2. A convoy of fuel trucks driving along edge of the airfield. A caterpillar tractor towing a large fuel tanker trailer. A fuel truck stops in front of a P-39 Airacobra and airmen begin to refuel its drop tank. Seabees unpack sections of pierced steel plank (Marsden Matting) and lay it down on the airstrip.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh takes off on solo transatlantic flight from Roosevelt Field in New York. Charles Lindbergh poses with his mother in front of his plane 'Spirit of Saint Louis'. Charles Lindbergh then dons heavier flying suit and boards the plane. The "Spirit of St. Louis" hits a few bumps on takeoff roll and then gradually completes a shallow takeoff.
A United States pilot climbs out of a cockpit of a Vought F4U Corsair in Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, during Pacific warfare in World War 2. A shirtless plane captain hands over the parachute of the pilot from the cockpit. A Marine signals to an aircraft. Shirtless plane captain gives signal for an aircraft to taxi in. An arm tattoo depicting an eagle with a globe and the word “Honolulu”. Two men talking outside a bungalow. Three pilots approach the two men and they started talking.
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