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WWII - 1944, Pacific: Roi-Namur & Kwajalein Landing & Fighting

Reel Number: 250220-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944,

Country: Japan,Marshall Islands,USA

Location: Kwajalein,Pacific

TC Begins: 12:09:40

TC Ends: 12:20:11

Duration: 00:10:31

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1944, Pacific: Roi-Namur & Kwajalein Landing & Fighting Formation of fighters overhead; aerial of plane & atoll . Strafing Japanese hangers & airfield w/ buildings burning. View of buildings on fire from ground. 12:10:14 LS Aircraft carrier w/ plane above; CU of deck & kamikaze alongside hit by a carrier's guns; bursting in flames & into water (not seen). Other naval guns firing, flak & tracers. Other planes into water seen from flight deck. 12:10:49 Diagram of Marshall Islands on map w/ bombs above outer islands; w/ animated arrows to Kwajalein. 12:11:01 Fleet underway w/ 4th Marines & landing craft chained down on deck. Ships firing barrage into Roi-Namur & shore explosions. Troops descend to assault craft, to shore & beach landing. Running ashore. Communications set up & mortars covering dug in Marines. Running & fighting from craters. 12:13:19 Walking wounded w/ bandaged head assisted by other Marines; others carried on stretchers. “Germans would have quit right away; but Japs are Japs...they dug into the ground like rats.” 12:13:43 Marines setting Bangalore mine, igniting. Marines pose w/ dead Japanese. CUs of bodies. 12:13:58 Supply landing craft & LST ships to shore & being unloaded at Kwajalein. Sleds of fuel drums & supplies pulled by bulldozers. Ships offshore. Beach flagman signaling, artillery to shore & firing. Stacks of shell casings. Infantry fighting & moving ahead; tanks & leveled jungle. Bazooka fired. Rifleman hits Japanese running. Marines firing small artillery; tanks firing. Flame-throwers; surrendering Japanese; take off clothes. Loudspeakers calling others out & captured wounds treated. marched to rear. “we gave them cigarettes, food & water.” Questioning POWs & filling out tags. 12:17:41 Twisted steel of burned hangers & parts of destroyed planes inspected. Stacks of bombs. 12:18:04 Large partially destroyed concrete Japanese pillboxes inspected. Anti-aircraft & shore guns; destroyed radio tower & trucks. 12:18:25 Wounded GIs to beach & evacuation by landing craft to ships & loaded by crane onto deck. Bodies of Japanese & GIs fingerprinted; GIs walk among graves. Service & riflemen fire salute. 12:20:03 The End. WW2; Horrors of War; Worker Morale Booster; Propaganda; Fighting; Pacific Battles; Invasions; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. VERY VERY GOOD ACTION & COVERAGE. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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