Manhattan Island in New York City, United States. A map shows the location of the five Boroughs in the New York City. A sign reads ' New York City' and marks Route 25D (Horace Harding Boulevard) on boundary between Queens County in the city and Nassau County on Long Island. .Camera pans to the Nassau County side where newly constructed homes are seen. Closeup of one of the houses, shows a small child coming out the front door to pick up two bottles of milk left by the milkman on the stoop. More views of homes in this neighborhood. A man throws a newspaper on steps of a house. Commuters (mostly headed to Manhattan) fill the platform at a station of the Long Island Railroad, and board a train as it arrives. View of the train heading West with Manhattan skyline visible in distance. View of train in major rail yard in Queens, with skyscrapers of Manhattan visible in distance.The Empire State and Chrysler Buildings are recognizable. Views of Ferry boats crossing to and from Manhattan,with sky scrapers in background. Passenger's view of ferry approaching battery terminal and docking. Commuters leaving the ferry.
'Action on Iwo Jima' depicts the Battle of Iwo Jima or Operation Detachment during World War II. United States Marines Divisions eliminate positions on Mount Suribachi. Mount Siribachi on the island coast. Additional waves of Marines arrive at the island. 3rd Marine Division arrives to enforce the 4th and 5th Divisions. Landing crafts and ships approach the shore amidst enemy fire and explosions. Crouched Marines in a Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP). Marines advance inland amidst mortar fire and machine gun fire by the Japanese. They advance across mine fields on the beach. Soldiers unload supplies from landing crafts and ships. They pull a tank across the beach. A view of the battle from inside a tank. Marines battle around Mount Suribachi. Advanced units scale cliffs and take cover against grenades and demolition charges from the Japanese in caves and pill boxes. The Marines use flames to flush Japanese soldiers out of dug in positions. A Japanese soldier takes cover from machine gun fire. Guns fired and explosions on the island.
Disasters in Japan. Rescue operations in Kyushu Island after being stricken by floods. Japanese people evacuating on Honshu Island following volcanic eruptions. Flooding in Honshu Island. U.S. Air Force aircraft drop parachute food supplies over Japan.
During timeframe of Japanese occupation of Philippines during World War II. Ships and landing craft underway at sea. United States Army General Douglas MacArthur shake hands with Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. President Quezon speaking with General MacArthur. A car exits a tunnel in Corregidor Island. Artillery shells in an underground storeroom. A fire control room in Corregidor Island. Soldiers walk inside a building. They discuss amongst themselves. United States and Filipino soldiers defending Corregidor Island from Japanese forces. United States prisoners of war walk along a field. The soldiers load and fire a United States Army disappearing gun.
The sea voyage of the victory ship Hannibal Victory from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands during World War II. The ship underway in the Pacific ocean. Animated map locates Hawaiian Islands, Philippine Islands and Eniwetok. A man at the controls of the ship. Mountains in the foreground. Man flashes the blinker light for the purpose of signaling. Men watching other ships underway from the deck of the ship. A man watching through binoculars.
Allied campaigns against Imperial Japan during World War II. Animated map depicts Allied victories in various Pacific islands like Guadalcanal, Palau, and the Mariana Islands. A map of the Philippines. United States troops invade the Philippines. Naval guns fire at a shore and flak bursts are seen. Dramatic shot of a Japanese Zero aircraft approaching United States Navy ships that are firing guns. The Japanese aircraft is hit at close range to the ship, a wing ruptures, it is consumed in fire and crashes with explosion in the sea beside the ship. Many landing craft with U.S. Army forces landing at beach on Leyte. Soldiers land and advance inland. United States Army General Douglas MacArthur and President Sergio Osmeña of the Philippines wade ashore. Filipino women and children on the island are assisted by U.S. forces and provided with food and protection. Following are meetings of wartime Allied leaders, shown briefly in the ending of the film: Prime Minister Winston Churchill meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the battleship, USS Augusta, at Newfoundland, during the Atlantic Conference, 1941. Roosevelt stands at the railing, assisted by his son, Army Captain Elliot Roosevelt. Roosevelt and Churchill meeting with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, at the Cairo conference, in 1943. Joseph Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill pose outside the Livadia Palace (Baturyna St, 44-а, Livadiya, 98655) during the Yalta conference in 1945. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, American Ambassador Harriman, British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, and Churchill's daughter, Sarah, in uniform, are among those standing behind the seated Big Three. Delegates from 51 Nations gathered for the first meeting of the UN General Assembly, in Westminster Central Hall, London, England, in 1946.
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