Final stages of the Battle of Saipan in the Mariana Islands during World War II. U.S. carrier-based airplanes land at and are refueled at a captured airfield renamed as Conroy Airfield. Bombers and fighters take off to bomb Japanese positions on the northern tip of Saipan. Smoke billows up from a Japanese ammunition dump by U.S. bombings. U.S. Marine Commander Carlson confers with an officer. Marines and tanks advance. Mortars are fired at Japanese pillboxes and caves on a hill. Smoke billows up from the hillside. The marines continue advancing. Animated map connects Saipan with Tokyo and the Philippines. The marines after the capture of Saipan.
A military film report on the advance of members of U.S. Army 5307th Composite Unit nicknamed Merrill's Marauders towards Myitkyina, Burma for its capture during World War II. Merrill's Marauders and U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Detachment 101 trained personnel advance through a river and on a hill. Supplies are loaded on mules for transportation. Dead body of a Japanese soldier. Captured and wounded Japanese soldiers are treated by Merrill's Marauders. Men control a mule going astray. Merrill's Marauders and other members of a task force come across dead bodies of Japanese soldiers lying in a jungle. Merrill's Marauders arrive on the top of the hill overlooking Myitkyina. Myitkyina as seen from the top of the hill. U.S. 10th Air Force airplanes overhead. Merrill's Marauders fire machine guns and artillery guns towards enemy positions.
Activities of U.S. Marines on Tarawa in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Two marines look at a damaged Japanese motorcycle. Natives walk on a street. Captain Louis Hayward and other soldiers guard the natives. The natives move down a road. A jeep moves along the side of the road. Barbed wire barriers off the beach. Japanese coastal defense guns. Damaged Japanese gun emplacement in the foreground.
Activities of U.S. Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. A marine fixes wounds on a Japanese prisoner. Other marines gathered around the Japanese prisoner. A tank in the background. Men advance along railroad tracks. An airplane in flight overhead. A man talks over a walkie-talkie. Men with rifles in the background. A man advances across a field. Fire and smoke rise from a hill in the background. Cliffs near Garapan. A machine gun crew keeps a lookout near the cliffs. A man talks over a walkie-talkie. A man armed with a carbine directs the troops along the railroad tracks. The marines advance along the railroad tracks. Dead Japanese at the side of the tracks.
Continental Army cavalry riding horses and soldiers marching in an American Revolutionary War reenactment. Continental Army soldiers carrying the wounded on their backs under heavy rain. United States Army soldiers marching in New York City during World War II. Views of enormous numbers of U.S. Army soldiers marching in formation. Large columns of U.S. Army soldiers seen approaching camera position and from above. A soldier with an Army Service Forces (ASF) patch marching. Close up of the Army Service Forces (ASF) patch. Commanding General of the ASF Lieutenant General Brehon B. Somervell smiling. A notice detailing the War Department Reorganization effective March 9, 1942. Army Ground Forces commander Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair. Army Air Forces Commander General Henry H. Arnold. General Somervell and Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. Soldiers advance towards a battlefront. Wounded are evacuated from the area. The soldiers stand in formation. Officials seated at a desk. General Somervell addresses them and speaks on the value of war material. A dead German soldier in tank. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers scattered on the beach in the Pacific. Tires and scraps for use by the army. A newspaper advertisement reads “Your scrap will save some brave boy’s life!”. Ceiling prices listed in grocery store during wartime. Japanese planes bombing Malaya and Singapore. Burned houses after Japanese bombardment in Asia. A burning house in China. An oil tanker explodes and burns after being bombed at sea. Tanks advance towards the front. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and wife Soong Mei-Ling (Madame Chiang). An airplane in flight, bombarding a target area. Prisoners of war standing. Dead bodies lying on the ground. Destroyed area after an enemy attack. The soldiers and the tanks advance towards the battlefront. Barrage balloons in flight overhead. Allied flags on display such as the Soviet Union and England.
Film 'Cherry Blossom Time' shows the Cherry Blossoms in Japan. Picture of a Japanese dragon. An ongoing parade in the narrow street. Japanese people wearing different costumes walk holding banners in hand. Decorative floats on the streets. Bearers carry large decorated sedan chair. The parade passes under an arch. Japanese people in the parade dancing. Dancers perform the dragon dance on the streets. People pulling floats.
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