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Gliders landing in Holland (WW2)

A group of gliders enter a holding pattern before approaching and landing at an airfield in Holland during World War II. The gliders circle over the field before landing. Two gliders land simultaneously, one of them tilts up on its nose and falls back.

Date: 1944, August 16
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080744
U.S. PBY Catalina flying boat picks up pilot survivors off the coast of Midway during World War II.

Survivors of crashed and ditched U.S. planes are rescued on Midway Island after Battle of Midway during World War 2. U.S. Army personnel on Midway Island after securing the same. Damaged buildings and pieces of Japanese planes on island. Gooney birds roam the island. U.S. PBY Catalina flying boat in flight. Crews of crashed U.S. planes leaving PBYs after being rescued. Some are carried on stretchers and placed in an ambulances. Ambulance is driven away (with door still open). A ditched U.S. airplane afloat and a ship nearby. Remains of destroyed hospital.

Date: 1942, June
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074722
Grumman F6F Hellcat take off from the USS Essex (CV-9) aircraft carrier during the Battle of Angaur (WW2)

View of Angaur island at sunrise at start of Battle of Angaur in World War II. Aerial view of aircraft carrier. Conning tower on USS Essex. Crew member speaking on on radio headset. Pilot in cockpit of Grumman F6F Hellcat. Fighter planes gathered on deck of the USS Essex (CV-9) near the Palau Islands. Grumman F6F fighters on board start after signal from crew in conning tower. Fighters take off from flight deck. Another Grumman F6F fighter is raised to deck using aircraft lift and takes off. Fighters in formation in the air. Battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43) and four cruisers bombard Japanese positions in Angaur. Explosion on top of a hill. Trees destroyed on the coast as seen from a United States Navy ship. Naval artillery firing at Angaur. Landing craft being deployed from ships to land on Angaur.

Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080160
81st Infantry Division “Wildcats” troops advance through Bloody Gulch to Suicide Hill during the Battle of Angaur (WW2)

Aerial view of Peleliu Island during the Battle of Angaur in World War II. Map pointing to the location of Suicide Hill on Angaur Island. 81st Infantry Division “Wildcats” troops moving up a narrow gauge railway leading away from phosphate works into a narrow gorge called “Bloody Gulch”. Smoke from Japanese artillery is seen above the gorge. United States infantry soldiers advance along with tanks through Bloody Gulch. Tank operator talking through a radio microphone. Dramatized audio simulates tank communications while in Bloody Gulch. Infantry soldiers trail behind tanks. A tank is hit by Japanese artillery. Soldier runs past moving tanks. Wounded soldiers crawl and lay down in Bloody Gulch. Medics remove a casualty, running to avoid snipers. Infantry troops taking cover. Soldiers assemble a satchel charge. Soldiers run as explosion in front of tanks to clear the gulch. The second battalion resumes their advance. The second battalion splits up to start an encircling maneuver. Soldiers climbs while wearing flame thrower on his back. Machine gun fire towards Suicide Hill.

Date: 1944, September 20
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080167
B-24 aircraft wreckage in snow covered mountains of Attu Island, Alaska.

U.S. Army B-24 wrecked in May 1943 while trying to drop supplies to stranded Rangers of the Attu occupation in Alaska during World War 2. Snow covered mountains. Wreckage of B-24 crash in mountains

Date: 1943, May
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024662
A Catholic Mass being conducted by a Chaplain in Makin Islands, Kirabati during World War II.

Supplements from a film called 'Fighting Lady' about the United States campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. United States Soldiers of the 165th Infantry Regiment drive down a road in a jeep. A Chaplain and Soldiers gathered around a jeep for a religious service. Soldier kneeling in front of the altar at the hood of the jeep. Chaplain conducts a Catholic Mass. Soldiers attend the mass. A Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) maneuvers in the background. Chaplain administers Communion to the soldiers.

Date: 1943, November
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059701