Rescue of Australian prisoners from Japanese prison ship sunk by U.S. submarines in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A crewman looks through binoculars aboard a submarine. Officers on the deck of submarine. Australian survivors helped aboard submarine from piece of wreckage alongside. The interiors of submarine showing survivors lying and talking.
Australian prisoners aboard U.S. submarine who survived sinking of Rakuyo Maru, a Japanese prison ship, in South China Sea during World War II. The crewmen aboard a U.S. submarine underway. A U.S. DD (destroyer) underway. A small boat rows from DD to submarine and unloads supplies.
Assault made by elements of U.S. 10th Army consisting of 1st Marines, 6th Marines, 77th and 96th Army Divisions on Shuri line in Okinawa during World War 2. Two Marines firing Browning M1919, 30 caliber machine gun, from a high ridge. Several bodies of fallen Japanese soldiers. (Note: Marine firing the machine gun might be Robert Sorensen, C-1-5 USMC, who recalled being filmed on Okinawa, while firing his machine gun from a ridge at about this date. He served with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division.)
U.S. troops battling enemy on ridge of Zebra Hill in Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands during World War II. Soldiers and gun crews of the 382nd Infantry Regiment fire machine guns, antitank guns and rifles from positions on the ridge of Zebra Hill. Shells burst over Japanese positions.
A film titled 'The Life and Death of The USS Hornet' dedicated to the workers of America's shipyards and war plants during World War II. The Capitol building in Washington DC. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt gathered at press conference to announce the bombing of Tokyo Japan by Doolittle Raid forces in April 1942. Reporters run out to phones and typewriters. A man at NBC microphone in 1943. The headlines of newspapers read 'Japs Murder Doolittle's Fliers'. American people in groups and families listen to radio broadcasts, gathered at work and in living rooms around radios to hear the radio news. They buy newspapers at newsstands. Headline of newspaper reads "Carrier Hornet was Shangri-La". Workers at shipyard, factories, machine shops. Men and women war workers of varying ages and races, including white, Japanese-American, and African-American seen welding, machining, and working to buld the ship and its parts. Scenes from the launching of USS Hornet CV-8 in December 14, 1940, with sponsor Annie Reid Knox at the launching.
A film based on mission of USS Hornet (CV-8) in Pacific Ocean during World War II. On 18th April, 1942 USS Hornet CV-8 underway with 16 U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bombers parked on flight deck to carry out Doolittle Raid on Japan. U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, leader of the raiding force, wires a Japanese medal to a 500-pound bomb, during ceremonies on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8). The B-25s are prepared for take off. The B-25s take off from flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8). USN (United States Navy) Fleet Admiral William Halsey on the deck of USS Hornet (CV-8) looks up at B-25 in flight.
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