General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1804 - 1983. Navy Motion Picture Film Productions. 1939 - 1947. THE SOLOMON ISLANDS

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General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1804 - 1983. Navy Motion Picture Film Productions. 1939 - 1947. THE SOLOMON ISLANDS

1945

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On the Marine Corps' invasion of the islands. Transports leave San Francisco, antiaircraft drills are held at sea, Adm. Halsey confers with Marine officers, and the convoy arrives in Australia. Gen. Vandegrift debarks and confers with his aides. Marines go ashore, march to a staging area, occupy a tent camp, and then board transports. Shows the convoy at sea: the exchange of semaphore signals, Marines at ships's rails, the arrival of a mail ship, the crash of a "Corsair" plane, and the rescue of the pilot from the sea. Antiaircraft repel Japanese planes. Marines descend landing nets into barges; an unopposed landing is made in the Solomons, machine guns emplaced on the beach, the U.S. flag raised, and Japanese corpses inspected. Shows Japanese POW's in a stockade marching, smoking, and being treated by U.S. Navy corpsmen. Machine guns and howitzers are loaded and fired. A flamethrower is demonstrated and U.S. and Japanese rifles compared. Bomb craters are filled and an airstrip graded; Adm. Nimitz deplanes. Food is unloaded onto the beach by cargo net, and bombs are taken from a landing barge. A P-40 plane is fueled, armed, checked, and taken off; a "Corsair" lands on a dusty field. Captured Japanese positions are examined. Marines paddle canoes, exhibit their knife-throwing and pistol-shooting skill, and wash in a stream. B-17 bombers land on a jungle airstrip. Adm. Nimitz decorates Marines. Hospital patients recuperate.

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