U.S. Navy submarine USS Bluefish underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A schooner underway at sea as the U.S. Navy submarine USS Bluefish approaches it. A three-masted schooner. Men on the deck of USS Bluefish. Men from Bluefish go aboard the schooner. The crew members of USS Bluefish recovers weapons from the sail boat. Men on the conning tower of USS Bluefish alongside the schooner. A U.S. sailor holds a Japanese flag and a pennant flag. Men from the schooner pass articles onto the submarine
Coverage of a project to determine the most effective means for destroying Japanese-type fortifications at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. U.S. Army Air Force P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft drops napalm incendiary bombs on hillside. Explosion throws billows of smoke in air. (World War II period).
General Henry H. Arnold, Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces, seated in front of world map, reports that since start of World War 2, the U.S. Air Force has gone from number 7, to number 1, in the world. Defense plant workers are shown walking near their place of work. A college football game shown in progress. Individual young men who left civilian life to became pilots, bombardiers, radio technicians, and gunners, in the Air Forces. A commercial DC-3 aircraft taxing to park at an airport. Shown are people who make the Air Forces possible, including many men and women workers at factories and manufacturing plants making aircraft and parts for the World War 2 effort: Steel workers, a woman working on a plane fuselage, actor James Stewart (in uniform), a welder at work, a typist, a machinist using a caliper, and an older couple at home, who forgoe driving their private car, shown covered in their garage. The flaming wreckage of U.S. aircraft at Hickam Field, on December 7, 1941. Large formation of German Heinkel He-111 bombers in flight. Formation of Japanese Mitsubishi G3M (Nell) bombers. U.S. P-40 pursuit planes taxiing out from parking places. Assembly line in U.S. aircraft manufacturing plant. U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress planes on assembly lines. Workmen work on engines and aircraft fuselages. At the Douglas plant U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder bombers being assembled. Workmen inserting machine guns into a wing.
Loose formation of U.S. Navy PB4Y-1 aircraft on a mission in the Marianas Islands during World War II. Crewmen aboard a PB4Y-1 in flight. Aircraft in flight over clouds. Pilot in the cockpit. Crewman placing a label on a container with "APS-1" stenciled on its side. Waist gunner drinking coffee. A crew member resting. Gunners pose at positions (not firing guns). Gunner eating a sandwich. Aerial view of Japanese airfield on Guam. It appears that smoke is rising from exploding bomb on ground.
Deployment of U.S. Marine Corps on islands of Pacific and errors by them add up in casualties during World War II. Re-enactment: An improper attempt of throwing grenade by a Marine. Another error includes Marines grouped up and resulting in increased number of casualties after facing one shell attack. Wounded soldier crawls to get out of line of fire. Another soldier comes to help him and both get killed. Another error made by Marines in jungle warfare as a Marine gets rid of his entrenching tool. Japanese troops start mortar fire on group of Marines. Marines dig foxholes to save themselves from mortar fire. Depicts the error made by one Marine as he gets rid of his entrenching tool and cannot dig a foxhole quickly. Marines under slip trenches. Marines advance in scattered formation on field. Marines come to halt for rest. Medical Corpsman gives salt tablet to a Marine. Marine feels dizzy after not having the tablet. Marine falls down because of lack of salt tablets. Marines advance through ankle deep water. Marines advance on field.
View of U.S. Army Field Hospital set up in Normandy, France, following the Allied invasion in World War 2. U.S. DUKW (six-wheel-drive amphibious truck) passes along a road. American wounded being carried on stretchers to hospital tent. Intravenous treatment being administered to a wounded soldier; man standing holds IV bag. American Army nurses and corpsman preparing bandages inside a field hospital tent. Nurses seated near a tent. One drinks coffee from her metal mess cup. Nurses comforting and assisted wounded soldiers. Two German prisoners of war (POWs) pose for camera. It is unusual that two of the German soldiers appear to be of East Asian descent. (It has been reported that there was a Korean man named Yang Kyoungjong who was three times captured and conscripted into the Japanese army, then the Soviet Army, and then the German Wehrmacht during World War 2. He was captured by the U.S. Army during the invasion of Normandy. The identify of the two German soldiers of Asian descent seen in this footage is unknown.) German POWs carrying a wounded comrade toward a treatment tent. A German POW Army doctor and his assistant treating a soldier for shrapnel wounds. The doctor waves toward German POWs to bring their wounded, on a litter, to him. POWs carrying wounded on a litter. Paratrooper of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, with bandages across his face, carries a wounded buddy to treatment area. Closeup of the trooper smiling in spite of his bandaged face. Ambulatory wounded U.S. soldier being registered by Army nurse. Corpsman of 101st Airborne, on stretcher on the ground.
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