Summary

United States Marines invade Los Negros in the Admiralty Islands during World War II

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # C4996
Clip SR002273_05_01mov
Date 02/29/1944
Title United States Marines invade Los Negros in the Admiralty Islands during World War II
Description Aerial of Los Negros Island seen far below wing of airplane / VS cluster of men on landing craft (Higgins boat); the men slowly walk on land / soldiers picking their way though undergrowth at base of tall palm trees / VS man in a foxhole and two men tossing hand grenades at thatched building / pan of men in battle / VS 155mm Howitzers and mortars being fired / man running and taking cover at palm tree trunk / crouching man running with field radio / VS destroyer firing in the distance; heavy artillery on boat and Howitzers firing amid shattered palms
Country Papua New Guinea

Keywords

archival
newsreel
World War II
Los Negros Island
invasions
military action
United States military
United States Marines
Higgins boats
landing crafts
field radios
aerials
155 mm Howitzers
Howitzers
artillery
palm trees
islands
foxholes
hand grenades
thatch
roofs
battleships
Admiralty Islands
destroyers
military ships
South Pacific
Battle of Los Negros
Admiralty Islands Campaign
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