ASLITO AIRFIELD (SAIPAN) & CAPTURED Japanese PLANES & AIRSTRIP, BEACH SCENES, PRISONERS WORK Part 1

Description

1) MCU Beach master talks to other officers.2) GV Men, equipment & tanks move up to front, road FG.3) GV Buddha Japanese temple; man works FG-SV.4) GV Plane graveyard, Japanese aircraft-SV.5) GV Japanese hangar & Zero planes.6) MS-Pan Captured Aslito air strip, P-47s taxi, take off.7) GV-Pan TBFs on air strip, gas truck enters FG.8) MS-Pan Japanese block houses, bldgs. etc. on edge of strip, (Japanese camouflage).9) LS-Pan Sugar-cane fields on Tinian Is.10) GV Group of men rest.11) MS CBs repair narrow guage railroad.12) MS Marines drive oxen in field.13) MS American knocked out tank by Japanese artillery.14) GV Japanese prisoners work.

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities