Wrecked Japanese planes after invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. A jeep in side of plane. Bunkers at the island.
Bombardment at Garapan in Saipan, Mariana Islands. Smoke columns rise. Burning fuel oil dump. USS Montpelier bombards island. Bombs burst around Japanese ship stranded on reef. (World War II period).
The Nationalist Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) engaged in the Salween campaign of Western Yunnan Province in World War 2. KMT troops fire field artillery at Japanese positions in a valley. They also fire heavy mortars. KMT soldiers firing small trench mortars from positions inside destroyed buildings.
Nationalist Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) troops of General Wei Li-huang's Chinese Expeditionary Force, operating during their Salween campaign of World War II. They attack Japanese 56th Division forces defending the city of Tengchong (Teng-Chung or Tengchung) in western Yunnan province, on the Burmese border. KMT soldiers are seen behind a tall fortification. A wooden box, at their feet, carries name of a company and a label reading, "The Largest Exporters of British Bottled Beers." The soldiers are firing recoilless weapons (bazookas). Other soldiers fire the same type weapons from a sandbagged field position. Other KMT soldiers are seen in a sandbagged trench, abutting a building. They fire rifles and hand-held machine guns. Famed war photographer, Wang Xiaoting (Wong Hai-sheng) better known as H.S. "Newsreel" Wong, is seen with a small hand-held movie camera, moving behind the KMT barricade. He films from a position next to a soldier firing a machine gun. Wong poses as he winds his camera.
United States Army Air Force soldiers at their base in the Japaneses island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. A C-47 plane of the U.S. Air Force landing at Central Field landing strip. Alongside the strip, tents of soldiers and military vehicles parked. Two soldiers talk with each other. A tent with sign 'Iwo Jima Inn Coffee Shop'. Airmen and soldiers talk and drink their coffee inside the tent .
United States Army Air Force at their base in the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. A PV-1 plane of the U.S. Air Force makes crash landing on landing strip. Plane makes a belly landing and crashes into fields close to the strip. Crew moves towards the crashed plane in a jeep. Injured pilot taken out on a stretcher and sent for treatment in ambulance. Ruptured part near the cockpit. Crew surrounds the plane.
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