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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1361-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1942,1943
Country: Solomon Islands,USA
Location: Guadalcanal,Henderson Field,Pacific,SOLOMON ISLANDS
TC Begins: 11:10:27
TC Ends: 11:20:00
Duration: 00:09:33
Titles. R1 of 2 11:11:12 Map Guadalcanal w/ Maj. Donald L. Dickson presenting film to war workers, narrates. 11:12:16 US troops embark ships in San Francisco, past shore & under Golden Gate (GOOD). 11:13:03 Men in group on board watching convoy ships. Destroyer & others ships on rough sea. Night at sea, smooth. Signaling; men at guns. 07Aug42: Coded messages w/ light signal. Weapons in place. Attack commences. Ship firing broadside, fire on coast. Officers watching operations. 11:14:36 Troops climb down nets into landing crafts & waves to shore. Fighter planes ahead. Landing & carrying supplies on beach. Gasoline barrels. Encircling with barbed wire, machine-gun nests dug, installing communications wire up palm tree. 11:16:11 Foxholes in jungle; abandoned Japanese camp w/ tents & other material left behind. Japanese camouflage clothing & weapons demonstrated; climbing spikes used to climb palm tree. Japanese flame thrower tried. Artillery shells fused & fired. Marching thru jungle. 11:17:59 08Aug42 Marines up Henderson Field & hoist US flag. Plane runway repaired, holes filled using some Japanese equipment, graded. Fighter planes using runway; pilot out of plane, others taxiing. B-17 Flying Fortress bombers landing & parked in row. Pacific, WWII; WW2 Invasion; 1942; 1943;