Allied invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. A Marine speaks over a phone. A wounded Japanese on a stretcher being loaded onto an ambulance truck. Smoke rises from Red Beach in Iwo Jima. A Marine swaps his shoes for Japanese shoes on a beach. A wrecked tank. A Marine carrying a rifle.
Allied invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Captured Korean prisoners seated outside a tent. United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General Holland Smith and Major General H. Schmidt confer at a map. Korean prisoners get a hair cut, eat food, smoke cigarette, sleep and read. A guard at a stockade. A man behind a barbed wire fence. Captured Japanese supplies. Piles of supply bags. Supply crates piled up. Captured Korean prisoners and captured Japanese supplies in Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II.
Japanese soldiers training for war during World War II. Scene from a barracks building as soldiers awaken and rapidly break-down sleeping arrangements, roll-up sleeping materials, and store them on elevated racks. Scene from stadium where Japanese soldiers do callisthenic exercises.
Propaganda film 'The Price of Rendova' documents the taking of Rendova Island in the Solomon Islands during World War II. A naval task force assembles at Guadalcanal. Cargo is hoisted. Animated map shows the strategic importance of Rendova Island and that it is taken in order to facilitate operations against the air base at Munda. General MacArthur with other officers. Face of older officer. Big naval guns fire. Faces of tired and worried G.I.s. Landing crafts with soldiers are unloaded from a ship and they move towards Rendova Island. Amphibious vehicles land on the island. Troops take positions on the island. The island is covered with tall trees. Marines are attacked by Japanese snipers. The troops advance on the island. Coconut logs on the ground. The troops fire artillery. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Dead Japanese soldiers on the ground. Soldiers talk on a radio device. Signal officers wave semaphore flags to signal the troops on a beachhead. Essential materials needed for war, medical supplies and food are unloaded from a ship onto the landing crafts.
Japanese men board a bus. A medical van parked. Japanese women and children disembark from the Red Cross repatriation mercy ship "Gripsholm," and sick helped off the ship which provided safe diplomatic passage for interned civilians under exchange and repatriation agreements. The Gripsholm was of the Swedish American Line, under charter by the U.S. Government.
Film starts showing the Swedish ocean liner M.S. Gripsholm, docked at Jersey City, New Jersey, in World War 2. Some Ship's officers and crew are on deck and two armed Sailors stand on either side where the ramp meets the ship's deck. Two uniformed policeman come up the boarding ramp carrying a person on a littter. Ship's officer directs them where to take that person. Next, Japanese Nationals and Issei with their families begin boarding. Ship's officer and a sailor direct them where to go. Many boarding have small children. A ship's officer and a sailor carry another person aboard on a litter. A woman alone breezes past the guards. More families with small children board. An ambulatory, disabled , young Japanese woman is helped aboard by a man and a nurse. Two nurses help another woman board. Scene shifts to the pier where U.S. customs officials check baggage being brought aboard the ship and check identifications of passengers who will board. Next, a ship's doctor is seen attending a young girl in the ship's infirmary. He checks her vital signs. Then a Red Cross nurse enters and takes the patient's temperature and pulse rate.
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