The Battles For The Beaches: Reel-2

Shot List:

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Invasion of Japanese held Pacific island. Intense combat footage. Shows LVT Landing Vehicle Tracked Alligator loaded with Marines headed to shore. CU of Marines in LCVP landing craft personnel or Higgins boat. Landing craft ramp drops and Marines rush out. CU of Marines firing a 50 Cal machine gun. Marine fires M1 Garand rifle with bayonet attached. Marines pinned down on beach. Marine firing a Thompson sub-machine gun.

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Marines climbing down cargo nets into landing crafts or Higgins boats from a WWII troop transport ship troopship. Unloading weapons and equipment from a cargo ship into Higgins boat. Higgins boat pulling away from ship loaded with shells for artillery. Invasion ships moving in toward shoreline. Marines unloading on beachhead. Shows a LVT Landing Vehicle Tracked Alligator moving away from beachhead. Marines taking shelter behind parapet wall firing weapons at Japanese positions. Marines firing machine gun, Marine uses flame thrower against entrenched Japanese position. Intense jungle fighting on a Japanese occupied Pacific island.

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Men and equipment on beachhead. Marines unrolling wire mesh matting on the sand. Weapons carrier with mounted 50 Cal. Machine gun driving over wire mesh on beach to reach solid ground. Marine using flame thrower. Two marines bringing in a Japanese prisoner. MS several Japanese prisoners taken by the marines during the invasion. Command post showing man cranking hand generator, others using phones. Tank, truck, driving off LCVT landing craft. Shows LST anchored off shore. Several shots along shoreline showing tanks, trucks, jeeps, weapon carriers, artillery, men and equipment on beachhead. Demolished four engine Japanese flying boat in water off-shore.

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SeaBees building an airstrip on captured Japanese island, grader and bull dozier at work. Navy pilot jumping down from wing of aircraft after landing on airstrip. Name of pilot on Mae West lifejacket Owens. CU men standing at attention, parade formation, fatigue clothes, saluting as American flag is raised over captured island. Remains of Japanese shrine on captured island. CU body of dead Japanese lying in jungle area. Small ravine showing bodies of many dead Japanese.

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MS surf breakers coming in toward shore. Shows a convoy of Liberty ships cargo ships underway at sea. British troops marching along pier. Formation of B-24 Consolidated Liberator bombers. Bombs falling, ground explosions. Paratroopers bailing jumping out of aircraft. Aerial scene of landing craft headed toward shore. Troops disembarking from USS LCIL-36 landing ship probably during the Salerno, Italy landing September 1943. Italian soldiers walking up small hill holding white flag on pole. Captured German soldiers standing near building, German soldier with Hermann Goring armband on sleeve and wearing Iron Cross medal.

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Animated map showing invasion route from Sicily to Italy. Beachhead at Salerno , Italy November 1943, troops coming onto shore. Jeeps, men and various other equipment on beach, landing craft pulling into shore, landing troops and supplies, tanks, trucks, men and equipment all being unloaded from vessels along the shoreline. Temporary bridges erected out to the landing craft showing tanks driving across same. MS landing craft at anchor off shore. LS taken from hill position, looking down on beachhead at Salerno and the town of Salerno Italy, showing bombs exploding near American landing craft out in water. Direct hit upon landing craft, landing craft sinking. Several quick shots taken from shore out at sea showing American cargo ships and landing craft off-shore, bombs exploding in water near the ships. LS American ship burning off-shore. MS tanks coming up from shore. Shows tank driving through Salerno.

Animated map showing advance of American forces to the Winter Line after invasion of Italy. Shows route of Operation Shingle the American amphibious landing at Nettuno, Italy. Italian people welcoming the American forces.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek and his wife sitting in front of various VIPs from their countries. This was at the Cairo Conference, codenamed Sextant, November 1943. CU President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin sitting on porch of large building. This was at the Tehran Conference, codename Eureka, in late November 1943.

Tanks and trucks driving up road mostly obscured in dust being raised by vehicles. Russian infantry advancing across snow covered fields and through snow covered village in blizzard conditions using horses to draw sleds of supplies across the terrain. LS down long row of B-17 Flying Fortress bombers nose-to-tail in take-off position. CU of B-17s in flight, bombs falling from aircraft bomb bay, bombs exploding on large airfield target.

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CU medics administering first aid to wounded soldier, digging out a wounded or dead person from mud. CU medics using rubber raft to evacuate wounded soldiers from jungle area. Australian medic leading a blinded soldier from very muddy jungle area. Australian troops holding funeral service in jungle area, showing grave markers, Chaplain reading from Bible.

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Scenes of the Dieppe Raid also known as the Battle of Dieppe, official code-name Operation Jubilee, that took place on the German occupied Northern coast of France on August 19, 1942.

Sign reads Dieppe. LS fighter aircraft buzzing and diving down across harbor area of German occupied port city of Dieppe, France. German anti-aircraft guns firing. LS explosion of gas tanks in dock area. Animated map of planned amphibious landing of Allied Forces, with air and naval support, at Dieppe, France.

German infantrymen lying in grassy field firing rifles and artillery pieces. LS demolished U.S. tanks on invasion beach. Several quick shots of demolished tanks and landing craft along the shore of the invasion beach. Bodies of dead Canadian, British and American soldiers on the beach. Two German soldiers searching invasion vessels, one drinking can of beer found in one of the boats.

Captured British and Canadian soldiers being marched down the street of Dieppe, France escorted by German soldiers. Wounded British or Canadian soldier being carried down street by four other soldiers. CU face of wounded soldier, eye covered with blood. MS four British or Canadian soldiers walking down street. Street scene showing surrendering British and Canadian soldiers. Surrendering British and Canadian soldiers being escorted along country road. LS city of Dieppe, France and coastline. French civilians going about their business in Dieppe, France. Men, women and children walking in the city. Pan shot of the harbor area of Dieppe, France.

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Framework for concrete that will house and support a German coastal gun emplacement along the German occupied coast of France in WWII. Several quick shots of various types of guns and their mountings, camouflaged gun positions, guns being raised into firing position. CU view of the barrel-end of one of the German coastal guns.

German military vehicles moving through a German town, large half-track vehicle towing a trailer loaded with large coastal gun. High angle shot down upon bow of unidentified ship plowing through heavy sea. Large submarine fleet underway at sea. CU guns of battleship firing. A Higgins boat underway. CU Marines on-board a Higgins boat or landing craft. Quick shots showing invasion troops hitting the beach.