U.S. Marines Take Eniwetok Mar 1944

U.S. Marines Take Eniwetok ??Mar44 Title: Embarkation from Pearl Harbor Trucks filled with marines en route to ships. Pearl Harbor w/ many transport ships. Officers on bridge of troop ships. Tugs & view of crowded ships. Leaving harbor. 05:22:32 Title: Gunnery practice. Marines fire Oerlikon ant-aircraft (Ack Ack AA) guns. Tracer bullets. 05:23:35 Title: Aboard Ship En Route. (for Marshall Islands). Sailor blows bosun whistle (ships pipe) Soldier sews up hole in trousers, marine reading, sharpening knife. Band conducted. 05:24:23 Title: Invasion leaders study model of objective. Officers with map on deck. Marines playing checkers, cleaning rifles & bayonets. 05:24:54 Title: Warships and planes open bombardment. Battleships fire at shoreline. 05:26:14 Title: Landing barges assemble for assault. LCPs at sea & en route to island. LVTs nearing shore and landing. 05:27:35 Title: Landing On Beach Head. Troops assembled on beach, crowded, one marine digs foxhole. Various equipment ashore, M-7 motor carriage with 105 mm How comes off LST. Men carry ammo. 05:28:45 Title: Pushing Inland. Marines advance under gunfire; two LVTs & M-4 tank move inland thru shattered palm trees. Medical aid, transfusion given to injured marine on battlefield. Heavy destruction. 05:30:21 Title: Snipers are blasted from their holes. Various shots Marines fire carbines into foxholes. Troops in foxhole w/ machine guns, explosions nearby. WWII - Pacific War - Invasion; Horrors of War; Gritty;