Invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan by United States during World War II. LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) loaded with Marines of the 5th Marine Division underway towards the beach of Iwo Jima, Japan. A Marine reads out from a list. Marines in a LCM as they head for the beach.
U.S. Army Air Forces operations in Pacific theater during World War 2. Animation shows locations of U.S. 13th Air Force on New Caledonia and U.S. 5th Air Force on Australia. Map shows Hawaii. Main gate at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu. U.S. 7th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft takes off from Hickam AFB. Animation shows the flight of bombers. Jeeps along a jungle highway. Sign on tree reads 'Ohare Field'. Gun crew clean machine guns. 75 mm canon in nose of a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 being cleaned by ground crew. B-25 takes off from Coral airstrip. B-25s in formation. B-25s in flight firing cannons. B-25s strafing Japanese airfields.
Japanese Yokosuka D4Y1 torpedo bomber in attack against U.S. warships, as seen from the USS Lexington (CV-16). The aircraft flies through heavy antiaircraft fire, at low altitude and releases a torpedo. It continues to fly through heavy fire and is struck and ends up in the water. A momentary silhouette view of SBD aircraft on deck of the USS Lexington. (World War II period).
U.S. Army troops departing San Francisco, California for the Philippines, aboard the SS Etolin, before World War II, in the Pacific. The Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Bay as seen from the ship passing under the bridge. Passengers seen in life jackets during mandatory first emergency ship drill. Ship flags and a smoke stack. A man reads a book while relaxing on a sun lounger. Views from ship as it arrives in port of Honolulu. View of the Aloha Clock Tower on Pier 9 at Honolulu Harbor. Lifeboat suspended from davits. Troops sun bathing on the deck. Army officers conversing with the ship's Captain.
Large number of U.S. Destroyers tied up close to one another in a harbor. Sailors engaged in routine duties. Clothing and gear hung along railings. One of the Destroyers is the USS Evans (DD-78). Sailor using semaphore flags on one ship. A battleship tied up at a pier. A bi-wing float plane descends to land near a ship. Heavy black smoke pouring from aft stack of a U.S. warship. U.S. Navy support vessels of various kinds. Footage date unknown; circa 1921.
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. The whaler enroute to Herschel Island. Captain Pedersen on the bridge. He looks through a telescope for an opening in the ice. Ice sheets. The crew rigs out the ice breaker. The ice breaker cuts through the ice sheet as the ship advances.
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