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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1366-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944
Country: Japan,USA
Location: Mariana Islands,Pacific
TC Begins: 12:09:59
TC Ends: 12:17:03
Duration: 00:07:04
WWII - 1944, Attack On Marianas, 15Jun44 R2 of 2 Ships firing, landing craft moving to shore seen from above. LSTs toward shore, unloading. Men clearing deck of battleship of shell casings. DUKW & landing craft w/ wounded alongside & stretchers lifted on board. 12:11:50 View of shore w/ bulldozer moving in pulling ?? w/ cable; trucks & troops alongside stone seawall, landing barges nearby. Men unloading equipment from landing craft; along sandy road next to destroyed jungle. 12:12:21 Title: Ashore - sugar mill, railroads & many buildings are knocked out. 12:12:28 Railroad yard w/ soldiers among crates & equipment, destroyed buildings behind. Pan smoking ruins & twisted tin. Destroyed sugar mill buildings; bulldozer clearing road ; moving sand. GI w/ rifle walks along railroad tracks past cars of sugar cane. 12:13:41 Title: Jap prisoners are corraled. 12:13:45 Japanese prisoners of war under guard walked past stack of ammunition crates; seated, given water from jerry cans. 12;14:21 Title: 2nd & 4th Marines consolidate beachhead & move forward. 12:14:27 GIs looking thru binoculars; firing light artillery camouflaged behind foliage. LS of explosions & smoke. MCU dropping grenades into launcher & firing. Explosions. smoke. GIs move up. Tanks moving, infantry troops follow. High angle of multiple tanks; soldiers into sugar cane. Explosions & drifting smoke against hillside. Large explosion. The End. WW2 Invasion; Pacific Islands; Battles; Fighting; NOTE: Good image quality & coverage; tank & infantry advance thru jiggly telephoto.