NEW FILMS OF U.S. VICTORY IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
Channel: PublicResourceOrg
Date: 2011-03-27

NEW FILMS OF U.S. VICTORY IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS - National Archives and Records Administration 1944 - ARC 38999, LI 208-UN-92 - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon.  Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945.  Kwajalein is bombarded from the air, from naval guns off shore, and from artillery batteries on a nearby atoll. U.S. troops land and advance inland under a constant artillery barrage. Flamethrowers and pack charges are used against pillboxes. Japanese prisoners are deloused and given medical treatment. Adm. Nimitz witnesses the raising of the American flag.