US TROOPS AND SUPPLIES LAND, ESTABLISH BEACHHEAD 155MM SHORE BATTERY IN ACTION, RENDOVA Part 1

Description

1) LS Looking toward bay; landing craft in water.2) MS LST on beach; Marines and supplies on beach in fg; debris on beach; PAN to more debris, Army trucks, palm trees.3) MCU Dead Japanese lying on ground; mask lying beside body.4) MS Four men walking toward dead Jap.5) MCU Dead Japanese lying on ground, face up.6) MCU As before; American soldiers looking at body.7) MS Marines looking at dead Japanese lying on ground (SV).8) MS Marines with packs, marching toward jungle.9) LS Two columns of smoke rising from other side of island.10) MS Two men digging foxhole beside machine gun; men watching in bg.11) MS Three men digging foxholes (SV).12) MS Men laying communication wiring; other men carrying shell cases.13) MLS Men on small hill in jungle, digging foxholes.14) LS Overall of the beach; men standing by small hut and 40MM gun.15) MS 40MM gun crew training gun.16) MS Men working on 40MM gun.17) MS Looking down beach, LVT comes onto beach from water.18) MS LVT coming onto beach.19) MS LVT loaded with soldiers, coming onto beach; Marines standing on beach.20) MS 75MM howitzer going around turn in road21) MLS Disembarkation area; Marines carry supplies through water; LCVP backing out in bg; LCT in far bg coming toward beach (SV).22) MCU American-born Japanese soldiers.23) MLS-MS 155MM gun crew firing gun.24) MS-LS 155MM gun firing at Munda; palm trees in fg and bg; dense jungle; PAN to man carrying shells to 155MM gun sitting among palm trees.24) MS Marines advancing through jungle; truck in far bg.25) LS 155MM howitzer sitting in jungle.26) MS As before; Marines around gun with shirts off.27) LS As before; men in foxhole in fg; howitzer fires one round.28) LS Two 155MM howitzers in jungle among palm trees; both guns fire simultaneously.JAPANESE PLANE AND F6F SHOT DOWN OFF SAIPAN; FLEET CONCENTRATION AT MAJURO ISLAND (1649)29) LS CVL underway at sea; Japanese plane crashes in water in front of ship; flak and smoke in sky; 20MM gun crew on unidentified carrier in fg.30) LS Looking across deck of carrier; smoke rising from water where Japanese plane crashed.31) GtoA Tracers fired at Japanese "TONY"; PAN as plane is hit and crashes into sea near carrier.32) GtoA Two F6F aircraft flying overhead; one plane smoking.33) LS Light cruiser underway, followed by column of other ships; PAN to CVL sitting on horizon.34) LS Two carrier of the ESSEX CLASS in harbor.35) LS Several unidentified ships in harbor.36) LS Light cruiser underway at sea.37) LS ESSEX CLASS carrier underway in harbor (ship nearly silhouetted by sun).

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities