General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. BOMBARDMENT OF IWO JIMA

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General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. BOMBARDMENT OF IWO JIMA

1945

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1) CU Troops at rail aboard AP (SV).2) MS Empty 8" ammo cans on well deck.3) MS Men slide ammo cans in trough.4) CU Muzzles of 8" guns, as they fire.5) AV Iwo Jima under invasion.PROD. N.C.B.*302 AWARDS TO 302nd NAVAL CONSTRUCTION BATT.6) CU Group of officers arrive for Purple Heart presentation to 302nd Naval Seabee Battalion.7) CU Purple Heart on enl"d man"s jacket.8) CU Officer pins Purple Heart on jackets of several men (SV).9) MS Seabee battalion and flags (SV).PROD. N.C.B.*302 NATIVE ACTIVITIES AND SEABEES MAKING BOXES10) MS Carpenter"s mate building boxes and crates for equipment. (SV)11) MS PAN, Natives wash clothes in river.12) CU Native uses paddle to wash clothes (SV).13) CU Water buffalo standing in bullrushes on shore (SV).14) CU Native children, wearing USA over-seas caps, skivvy shirts, holding pineapples.15) CU Native baby.PROD. USN (CinPac) SECNAV JAMES FORRESTAL ARRIVES AT MATS, HONOLULU, HAWAII16) LS C-54 in flight.17) MS Plane taxies on airfield.18) MS Secretary of the Navy FORRESTAL descends ramp and is greeted by ADM JOHN TOWERS; Sideboys, BG.19) MS Secretary of the Navy enters automobile.

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Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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Towers, John H. (John Henry), 1885-1955

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