The Battle of Tarawa between U.S. and Japanese forces during World War 2. U.S. Task Force ships head for Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. U.S. officers confer aboard a ship. A stick points out the location of Tarawa on a map of the Pacific Ocean. U.S. soldiers bow their heads in prayers aboard the ship. U.S. naval guns are fired at coastal targets. U.S. Marines in landing crafts head for Tarawa. Smoke rises from artillery shell attacks on the island. The Marines use hand grenades to destroy Japanese pillboxes and machine gun nests. Reinforcements arrive and U.S. Marines advance inland after heavy fighting. Abandoned coastal artillery guns and dead Japanese soldiers on the island. The island after the battle. Forced Korean laborers on the island. A U.S. medic giving first aid to a Korean laborer. U.S. Navy CBs (Construction Battalion) make repairs and construct an airstrip on Tarawa.
Posthumous presentation of U.S. 442nd Infantry Regiment to Japanese-American parents in Honolulu, Hawaii during World War II. Interiors show Japanese-American parents of soldiers of U.S. 442nd Infantry Regiment, who died in the war. Chaplain Spears addresses the group. Japanese-American parents lined up in front of the room. U.S. Colonel Kendall J. Fielder presents medals and shakes with the parents.
Philippine officers speak over radio during Japanese occupation of Philippines in World War II. Filipino politician Benigno Aquino speaks into a microphone as Japanese officer looks on. Presiding officer of the Philippine Executive Commission Jorge Vargas speaks at desk as Japanese officer looks on.
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands on 26th of October, 1942 during World War II. U.S. aircraft take off from U.S. Navy USS Hornet (CV-8) carrier at dawn. Members of crew on U.S. carrier look through binoculars. Japanese bombers formation overhead. Gun crews of USS Hornet (CV-8) attack the Japanese aircraft. Japanese aircraft in flames crash. Flak bursts in sky. USS Hornet gets torpedoed and bombed heavily. USS Hornet burns. The crew abandons the USS Hornet. Members of the crew board rescue boats. USS Hornet being sunk by torpedo attacks at night. Wounded men transferred to other U.S. ships and taken ashore. New ships being launched from shipyards in United States.
Japanese Generals visit the disputed Thai-French Indochina border during World War II. Japanese officers arrive in a truck. The officers study the boundary line under guidance of Vichy France officers. The officers in front of a damaged building. The Japanese officers inspect Thai Army.
A promotional documentary justifying Japanese involvement in World War II. Japanese cavalary, infantry, and tanks advance in Chinese territory. Formation of Japanese aircraft in flight.
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