Damage done to aircraft hangars during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in World War 2. View from inside damaged hangar with broken glass and smoke everywhere from the Japanese attack. Dozens of U.S. sailors running through another cloud of smoke. Ground view of four Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero airplanes flying past the camera in a line. Another Japanese airplane is struck by ground fire and is shown flying almost straight towards the camera, leaving a trail of smoke behind it and firing as it flies by. Final scene is an aerial view of a Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat shown flying in front of a large thunderhead cloud.
U.S. amphibious assault on Pacific island in World War 2. Transport ships offshore. A U.S. Fletcher Class destroyer, close to shore, bombarding the shore. White smoke rising from shell burst. Landing craft heading toward shore. Black smoke rising on shoreline, from naval shelling. More black smoke and fires at another shore location. Plume of water from Japanese shell striking near assault boats. The destroyer close to the shore as smoke drifts above mountain in background. Flames at shore. Landing craft tracked (LCT) approaching shore and avoiding area of fire and smoke. American SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser, PC-1278, close to shore. She displays a red flag with white stripe, as secondary control ship for Red Beach. Several LVTs led by one displaying Wave Commander blue and orange flag. Several plumes of water thrown into the air from Japanese shells or bombs. Assault boats reaching narrow beach, where a fire is burning. Other boats and LVTs avoiding the area of smoke and fire. Landing craft clustered at shore and one flying red and white flag, away from the shore. Several structures on the shore. More black smoke rising from shore. Camera pans around showing steep vegetation-covered hills characteristic of the island.
Screen Magazine film 'Aussies and Yanks' about American and Australian troops in Papua New Guinea. 1942-43: U.S. 5th AAF B-24 Liberators flying over Port Moresby towards Salamaua. A destroyed ship in the water. Australian troops advance through the thick jungles. U.S. C-47 Skytrains drop supplies with parachutes over target areas. Native bearers collect the supplies and carry them to the front. Troops prepare and eat hot food at a camp in the jungle. Soldiers advance through the jungle amidst enemy fire. They capture Japanese machine gun nests. Load shells and fire anti aircraft guns and machine guns. Dead Japanese soldiers. The wounded Allied soldiers are taken to safety on stretchers across the Francisco River by the natives. An Australian soldier leads a another who is wounded and blinded with his eyes bandaged. They cross a stream and slog through deep mud in the jungles. Wounded soldiers board a plane at an emergency air field to take them to a hospital. Australian soldiers in rain gear,with heads bowed, hold a funeral service at a battlefield cemetery for fallen comrades. A chaplain reads from a prayer book. Soldiers read from a Bible at a grave for their comrades. Reinforcements and supplies are loaded into a C-47 plane at Moresby. Closeup of an American pilot and an Australian co-pilot in the cockpit. View of the aircraft taking off. Closeup view of a C-46 transport in flight. A C-46 making a wheels up landing on a jungle airstrip. If skids along the runway and when it stops, Australian troops exit quickly through its large portside cargo doors and walk about. It is clear that no one was injured during the event. American and Australian soldiers moving through jungles and firing mortars and Browning M1919 machine guns from set positions in the foliage. (World War II period).
Battle of Eniwetok during World War II. A group of natives and children in foxhole. Children and an old woman on island. Sunken Japanese barges and a dead body of a man on it. Burnt dead bodies of Japanese on island. Burned out medium U.S. tank. A soldier near a tank.
Occupation of Marbache Sector by U.S. Second Division in France during World War I. A soldier looks through binoculars from an observation posts in Pont-a-Mousson. A Japanese officer confers with U.S. General Albert Jesse Bowley in Marbache. The Japanese officer, General Bowley and a French officer seated on a bench. They visit Marine General Wendell Cushing Neville in Dieulouard and inspect 17th Field Artillery batteries.
USS Yorktown CV-10 in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. Naval officers and sailors discuss over a map on a table. Animated map depicts Japanese fleet positions on the Truk Atoll of Islands. USS Yorktown Navy flier squadron and squadrons from other carriers take off for combat over the Truk Islands. Sailors talk over the radio aboard USS Yorktown. A map shows the heavily fortified islands surrounded by air strips, and naval anchorages among the islands. Crewmen aboard Yorktown prepare the planes for take off. Machine gun fire from the planes over the Truk Islands. They dive bomb the island. The aircraft are hit and descend to the ground. A plane drops into the ocean. U.S. airplanes bomb Japanese planes on fighter strips, bomb bases and sea plane ranches. Smoke due to heavy bombardment. Planes dive and drop bombs. Fire due to bombing of a fast fleet tanker hiding in a sheltered cove. U.S. bombers and fighter planes strafe other fleet auxiliaries including rice boats, transports and ammunition ships. They are set on fire with 50 caliber incendiaries and armor piercing plugs. The ships on fire sink into the ocean.
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