Activities of the United States Marine Corps in the battle for Iwo Jima, Japan, during World War II. U.S. Marines load and fire 105mm howitzer point blank against Japanese fortified positions on Mount Suribachi.. Heavy smoke arises due to explosions. U.S. carrier-based F4F Wildcat aircraft makes shallow runs on Mount Suribachi and fire rockets. Rockets explode at base of the mountain. Marine howitzer battery in position on the beach. Marines unloading wooden cases of artillery shells from landing craft.
Activities of United States Marine Corps off the coast of Iwo Jima, Japan during the Battle of Iwo Jima, World War II. Mount Suribachi and Iwo Jima beach in view. Bow of a destroyer in the foreground. U.S. invasion fleet underway at sea. The marines fire guns in the foreground. Airplanes fly in formation over the beach. The shoreline of Iwo Jima as bombs burst. Smoke rises due to the firing. Corpsmen carry causalities on stretchers on the deck of USS Indianapolis.
Activities of United States Marine Corps in Iwo Jima, Japan during the Battle of Iwo Jima, World War II. Casualties are brought, hoisted aboard from a Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) alongside. The casualties are carried down a gangway to ambulances waiting on a dock in Guam. USS Solace (AH-5) alongside the dock. Corpsmen carry patients down the gangway and place them in the ambulances. Wounded on stretchers are placed in the ambulances.
Celebration of VJ Day (victory over Japan day) in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia at the end of World War II. Czech girls in native dresses dance in front of a reviewing stand. American, Russian and Czech troops parade through the streets. A Liaison plane drops pamphlets. U.S. Army Major General Ernest Nason Harmon speaks from the reviewing stand. American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Laurence A. Steinhardt, Russian Colonel General Zhadou and other dignitaries in the background.
United States Marine Corps 3rd Infantry Division in Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Stretcher bearers go towards front line over a rocky terrain. Artillery air spotters. Aircraft flies overhead. Marines on top of the hill. Marines fire at a Japanese target. Smoke rises from explosions at Japanese positions.
From German newsreel Welt Im Film: Shows Kamikaze airplanes in operation over the Pacific Ocean near Japan during World War II. Kamikaze airplanes are shot down and crash into the ocean. Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) in the Pacific Ocean near Iwo Jima. A Japanese kamikaze suicide airplane hits USS Saratoga. Smoke rises from the ship. Crewmen try to extinguish the fire with water hoses. USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) underway in the Pacific Ocean on May 11. View from Bunker Hill as a Kamikaze airplane hits USS Bunker Hill. The aircraft carrier bursts into flames. Crewmen fight fire on USS Bunker Hill. Smoke rises from the aircraft carriers after being hit by Kamikaze airplanes. Crewmen at work on the carrier ships with large hose pipes. U.S. Navy crew cling to floating debris and swim in water after the attacks toward rescue ships. They are pulled aboard a ship.
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