Link to order this clip: http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675073829_United-States-Marines_task-force-ships_Battle-of-Tarawa_capture-of-Tarawa Historic Stock Footage Archival and Vintage Video Clips in HD. US forces capture Tarawa, Gilbert Islands from Japanese forces and undertake reconstruction activities during World War II. The Battle of Tarawa between US and Japanese forces during World War II. US Task Force ships head for Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. US officers confer aboard a ship. A stick points out the location of Tarawa on a map of the Pacific Ocean. US soldiers bow their heads in prayers aboard the ship. US naval guns are fired at coastal targets. US Marines in landing crafts head for Tarawa. Smoke rises from artillery shell attacks on the island. The Marines use hand grenades to destroy Japanese pillboxes and machine gun nests. Reinforcements arrive and US Marines advance inland after heavy fighting. Abandoned coastal artillery guns and dead Japanese soldiers on the island. The island after the battle. Forced Korean laborers on the island. A US medic giving first aid to a Korean laborer. US Navy CBs (Construction Battalion) make reparations and construct an airstrip on Tarawa. Location: Tarawa Gilbert Islands. Date: 1943. Visit us at www.CriticalPast.com: 57,000+ broadcast-quality historic clips for immediate download. Fully digitized and searchable, the CriticalPast collection is one of the largest archival footage collections in the world. All clips are licensed royalty-free, worldwide, in perpetuity. CriticalPast offers immediate downloads of full-resolution HD and SD masters and full-resolution time-coded screeners, 24 hours a day, to serve the needs of broadcast news, TV, film, and publishing professionals worldwide. Still photo images extracted from the vintage footage are also available for immediate download. CriticalPast is your source for imagery of worldwide events, people, and B-roll spanning the 20th century.

• published: 26 May 2014
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