US Marines on Guadalcanal
Troops advancing and natives carrying supplies through hilly fields. Men in dugouts. Military funeral with palm leaves over graves; bugler and chaplains at altar, troops watching.
16:55:12 Three officers consult map; CUs. VS landing on Pacific island beach early in war per helmets? and unloading crates of supplies w/ natives; battleship offshore.
16:57:37 Group of Marines - Lt. Col. Carlson’s ‘Raiders’ - posing for camera & waving; show guns and munitions; pretend to shave with sword for joke; show Japan flag - from released PoWs? Col. Carlson and other. Troops embark on landing craft back to ship. Others wait on beach or advance in line across island.
WWII. Pacific War.
US Marines on Guadalcanal Troops advancing and natives carrying supplies through hilly fields. Men in dugouts. Military funeral with palm leaves over graves; bugler and chaplains at altar, troops watching. 16:55:12 Three officers consult map; CUs. VS landing on Pacific island beach early in war per helmets? and unloading crates of supplies w/ natives; battleship offshore. 16:57:37 Group of Marines - Lt. Col. Carlson’s ‘Raiders’ - posing for camera & waving; show guns and munitions; pretend to shave with sword for joke; show Japan flag - from released PoWs? Col. Carlson and other. Troops embark on landing craft back to ship. Others wait on beach or advance in line across island. WWII. Pacific War.