United Newsreel (U.S. Office of War Information) news from 1944. New Films of U.S. Victory in the Marshall Islands [31 January-3 February 1944] Japanese Pillboxes are Blasted Japanese Prisoners of War Admiral Nimitz Sees the American Flag Raised on the Marshall Islands National Archives description: 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."

National Archives Identifier: 38999

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