U.S. forces advance towards Japanese acquired Saipan island in the Mariana Islands during World War II.. Pictures of United States ships arriving at a target area. Fire and explosions on the island. A soldier fires a rifle. A Marine holds a land mine in hand. Animation shows U.S. forces approaching the island. They capture a radio station . A fleet of ships underway.
U.S. forces battle against the enemy on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II.. Soldiers advance with tanks. Landing crafts head towards a beachhead. The 2nd and 4th Infantry Division advance in formation. A damaged Japanese air field with a wrecked hangar.
U.S. forces battle against the enemy on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II.. Troops fire at Japanese cave entrances. Animated map of Saipan shows territories occupied by U.S. forces. Officers look through telescopes. Soldiers load and fire artillery at the enemy. The troops advance with tanks.
Chinese refugees receive rice at refugees quarters in Kiukiang, China during Second Sino Japanese War. Rice in a big plate. Man gives rice to children. Men and women stand in line. Doctor Edward C. Perkins examines child at Water of Life, Methodist Episcopal Hospital. People seated outside the clinic. Nurse Miss Proeg examines a Chinese refugee girl.
From German newsreel Welt Im Film: Shows Kamikaze airplanes in operation over the Pacific Ocean near Japan during World War II. Kamikaze airplanes are shot down and crash into the ocean. Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) in the Pacific Ocean near Iwo Jima. A Japanese kamikaze suicide airplane hits USS Saratoga. Smoke rises from the ship. Crewmen try to extinguish the fire with water hoses. USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) underway in the Pacific Ocean on May 11. View from Bunker Hill as a Kamikaze airplane hits USS Bunker Hill. The aircraft carrier bursts into flames. Crewmen fight fire on USS Bunker Hill. Smoke rises from the aircraft carriers after being hit by Kamikaze airplanes. Crewmen at work on the carrier ships with large hose pipes. U.S. Navy crew cling to floating debris and swim in water after the attacks toward rescue ships. They are pulled aboard a ship.
Japanese newsreel covers armistice signed between the French and the Germans in Compiegne, France during World War II, after the fall of Paris during the Battle of France. A German soldier on horse back salutes. The German Army on horse back enters Paris. German troops pass through the Arc de Triomphe on parade. They march on the streets of Paris. A landscape view of Paris. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler at the Eiffel Tower near the Seine River with some officials. Hitler looks at a Nazi flag fluttering. Nazi posters and boards displayed in the streets of Paris. German troops with guns stand along a street. Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage. French and German officials enter the railway car in the Compiegne Forest (Same railroad car where Germany signed surrender in World War I). Hitler reads the armistice. The railway car in the Compiegne Forest. The railway car reads 'Voiture Restaurant' which means a dining car. German and French officials get down the dining car after the armistice is signed. Adolf Hitler and German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel get down the car.
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