00:30The Marshall Islands, first territory of Japan's pre-war empire to be invaded by United States forces.
00:41A 700-mile group of atolls bristling with Jap air and sea bases.
00:46Most important of these is Kwajalein, the Marshall's strategic heart.
00:51Roy and Namur are taken by United States Marines, Kwajalein by the Army.
00:57These pictures show the Army invasion.
01:00Ships of Admiral Turner's giant task force stand offshore.
01:08The pre-invasion bombardment nears its devastating conclusion.
01:12Kwajalein's two-and-a-half miles is hit again and again.
01:30From a tiny island just west of Kwajalein, United States artillery pounds the objective at almost point-blank range.
01:44Piles of empty shell cases indicate the ferocity of the garage.
01:58Now scores of landing craft bring the troops ashore. They drive in for the decisive assault. The patches on their backs are to identify them to their own low-flying aircraft.
02:08Now scores of landing craft bring the troops ashore. They drive in for the decisive assault. The patches on their backs are to identify them to their own low-flying aircraft.
02:20Machine gunners get a Jap sniper in a tree.
02:38Mortar fire is constant. Devastating.
02:56It drives the enemy further back. A Japanese pillbox is blasted by dynamite.
03:10Riflemen cover any possible escape.
03:24Flamethrowers finish off a Jap military building.
03:30Flamethrowers finish off a prop on the
03:34pure enemy of a pit.
03:37Popes, fly up!
03:40Flamethrowers, fire up!
03:45With the army of soldiers, the troops are murdered.
03:48They are conquered from the war.
03:51The rocket's red car is red, gold in a country.
03:55The primordial units are from the force.
03:58The Americans push ahead.
04:04All arms keep up relentless pressure on the enemy.
04:13With a loudspeaker, an American officer speaking in Japanese
04:17demands the surrender of the enemy still holding out in the ruined emplacement.
04:24One Jap comes out.
04:28Another with a white flag.
04:43A Jap tells an officer there were ten in his pillbox.
04:47All are now dead or prisoners.
04:50The army alone killed 4,600 Japanese and captured 163.
04:56The Americans play in the middle.
05:26Wounded Japanese received the same
05:54expert medical attention that is given to the Americans.
06:11These are native Kanakas, men and women forced to labor for the Japs.
06:20Every living Jap is registered as a prisoner of war.
06:23Medical tags are filled out.
06:26All are given clean, new clothes.
06:39Enemy bodies litter the sands.
06:41The Army did a thorough job.
06:56Wounded are brought up for treatment.
07:16After the grim fighting pass, the men relax.
07:20On the island won, the mess sergeant celebrates with a Kwajalein chicken.
07:26Admiral Nimitz, Pacific Fleet Commander, and Lieutenant General Richardson, Army Commander, visit the scene of battle.
07:43At the highest point on Kwajalein, the American flag is raised.
07:58Under Admiral Nimitz, the United States moves ahead in the Battle of the Pacific.
08:13Under Admiral Nimitz, the United States moves ahead in the Battle of the Pacific.
08:20Under Admiral Nimitz, the United States moves ahead in the Battle of the Pacific.
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