A U.S. Vought OS2U Kingfisher scout plane flies low over the water near Corregidor Island, during World War 2. View of sailor standing next to a Kinfisher plane, on deck, with a destroyer in camouflage underway, in near background. Smoke rising over Corregidor Island, from Navy bombardment. Pilot climbing aboard a Kingfisher scout plane. Sailor gives launch signal, with a flag, and the plane is catapulted. Another scout plane is launched from number 2 catapult. A Kingfisher in flight. View of Corregidor from shipboard. A destroyer bombarding the island closein. Crew members in steel helmets and face and eye protection, at a gun station. Officers on bridge of cruiser, observing through binoculars. A Cleveland Class, single stack, light cruiser. Officers on bridge of the camera cruiser. Two destroyers underway. Sailors in an antiaircraft gun position. A Brooklyn Class light cruiser.
Activities of Japanese soldiers in Corregidor, Philippine Islands during the Battle of Philippines of World War II in 1942. A relief map of Corregidor, Bataan and Manila. The island of Corregidor. Japanese Navy Aichi D3A 'Val' in flight over the island. Smoke rises due to bombardment. Japanese Marines land on a rocky beach of Corregidor. Japanese soldiers carrying flame throwers climbing up a cliff with the aid of a ladder. A soldier uses a flame thrower on a covered trench. Several Japanese soldiers run along the base of a steep hill. Japanese soldiers and British and U.S. prisoners of war in the foreground around time of surrender of Allied forces to Japanese. Buildings in the background. A barrage balloon moored close to the ground. A group of US, British and Japanese enlisted men. U.S. Army General Jonathan Wainwright speaks to two British enlisted men. Japanese, British and U.S. enlisted men converse in the foreground. Two Japanese officers enter a building and an officer salutes. The enlisted men on the porch of the building. The coastline of Corregidor in the foreground. U.S. and British prisoners on a hillside. Japanese soldiers climb up a steep hill. U.S. and British sailors and enlisted men march. Destroyed gum emplacement. Entrance to a tunnel on the side of a rocky cliff. Interior of the tunnel equipped with desks and typewriters.
Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Canada, Campobello Island, Canada. USS Tuscaloosa, cruiser underway at sea, enroute to Campobello Island. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the Tuscaloosa. He gets into barge along with the Tuscaloosa. The barge lands. President Roosevelt in the barge. A building on the island. The President and officials discuss. He talks with a man and a woman. Birds including hens, cranes and turkeys seen.
Canadian soldiers with full packs and equipment board a transport ship that is set to sail from Adak island to Kiska island in the Aleutian islands during World War 2. An officer checks each soldier as they pass across the gangway. Closeup of two patches on the officer's shoulder, one with a knife on it and the other with the word "Canada." Excellent closeup shots of faces of Canadian soldiers on the transport ship. Emblem "RCASC" (Royal Canadian Army Service Corps) seen clearly on the shoulder of multiple soldiers. Camera pans across the troops and sometimes shows closer shots of just one soldiers face. Most soldiers are smiling, all seem to be in good spirits. Soldier smoking in foreground, while an M29 Weasel (a treaded transport vehicle) is loaded onto the ship behind him. The M29 Weasel is being carried by a crane, and there are many soldiers around it guiding it into place.
U.S. 81st Infantry Division troops of Regimental Combat Team 321 (321st Infantry Regiment) advancing cautiously in the Palau Islands during World War 2. They are supported by armor of the 710th Tank Battalion,including personnel carriers and M4 tanks. Views from an M4 tank firing at Japanese positions in hills across a valley. Smoke rising from shell strikes.
United States Marines march across a beach on Gilbert Island in World War II. A Jeep is moving along the marching solders. The U.S. Marines sit , bathe, relax and mill around after battle. Barren posts and ruined sea shore is also seen.
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