Activities of United States Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. A M3 Stuart light Tank (M3A1) mounted with a flamethrower. Dead Japanese bodies smoking. The head of a dead Japanese soldier with blood oozing out of a ear. Two marines throw a demolition charge into a Japanese cave. Explosion from the demolition charges. Men advance along a cliff. A dead Japanese sniper hanging from a tree. The marines inspect the body of a dead Japanese soldier. The flamethrower tank throws flames into an enemy cave.
Color footage shot under the direction of John Ford, whose film crew was stationed at Midway during the battle. Japanese aircraft flying above Midway Island as they commence attacks. U.S. Marines firing an antiaircraft machine gun. Black flak bursts in the sky. Four SB2U - 3 ‘Vindicator’ dive bombers, of Marine Corps VMSB-241, taking off from Midway Island, with single bombs slung under their bellies. They pass a B-17 parked at side of runway. Japanese planes bombing Midway. An explosion near the camera with debris flying all about. A bomb hits only yards away from the camera. A hangar hit and on fire. American airplane overhead. Another bomb burst with debris thrown everywhere. U.S. Marines trying to deal with destruction and fires. Close up as they raise the American flag on a tall flagpole. A flaming fuel tank raising black smoke with the flag flying in the midst of the destruction. A Japanese airplane in flames. A jeep driving over debris near a destroyed U.S. airplane. Marine medic with red cross armband.More bombs striking fuel storage facilities and causing huge flames and black smoke. A Japanese airplane struck by machine gun fire loses power and crashes. The wing panel of a PBY Catalina, painted to simulate a crashed Japanese aircraft, has a puddle of gasoline burning in the middle of the "meatball" insignia.
Japanese workers in forests in Japan. A Japanese helicopter in flight. View of thick forests on the ground and huts on the top of a hill. Japanese men felling trees. The helicopter lands. Men unload equipment from the helicopter. The equipment is carried in boats. A group of Japanese men pulls a tractor uphill. An aircraft lands on a field. A doctor examines poor Japanese people.
U.S. forces battle against the Japanese on Saipan island, Mariana Islands during World War II. Dead Japanese on the ground. 4th Marine Infantry Division advances along a beach area. U.S. forces fire at Japanese caves. The captured Japanese. Dead Japanese with sticks in hand.
U.S. forces battle against the Japanese on Saipan island, Mariana Islands during World War II. United States 2nd and 4th Marine Infantry Divisions advance with rifles in hand. Tanks fire on Japanese targets resulting in fire and explosions. Japanese women and children come out of caves. Japanese people jump off from cliffs to commit suicide. The tanks fire at Japanese caves.
Japanese Asashio-class destroyer Asagumo at anchor, just prior to World War 2. A battleship behind it fires guns in salute. Sailors, in dress whites, line foredeck of a ship. Nautical flags fluttering overhead. Marines on deck hold rifles in present arms salute. High-ranking military delegation steps from small boat onto dock and thence up a ramp to a pier, where sailors are standing in formation. They inspect the formation. View from dock upwards at a Japanese warship. A band playing on the foredeck. Anchor being weighed. Japanese battleship underway at sea. View from airplane of two Japanese battleships underway. Two Japanese destroyers underway.
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