HISTORIC WORLD WAR II ERA PHOTOS AND FILM
FROM THE PACIFIC THEATER
Photos of wartime Hawaii, Tinian, & other Pacific island locations in World War II
Please see our new webpage, FILMS, launched on Veterans’ Day 2019. It features a 14-minute slide show of B-29s on Tinian, and a 46-minute movie of Roosevelt in Hawaii and Air Force fighters and bombers, capture of Japanese soldiers, USO show and more on Tinian.
Movies
Exclusive color film footage such as the motorcade of President Franklin Roosevelt, seated with General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz during their summit in Honolulu where they planned the final stages of the war in the Pacific. B-29s and P-51s on Tinian. Native Islanders on the Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu).
An extensive collection of footage!
Still Photographs
35mm color slides and 35mm black & white negatives, shot and/or owned by Irving Winkler during this period, have been scanned and digitized in high resolution. Subjects include U.S. military personnel, Hawaiian natives, Tinian natives (Chamorros), Ellice Islands natives, Japanese and Koreans, B-29 Superfortresses, P-51 Mustang fighters, Japanese P.O.W.s, flora and fauna, flag-raising on Tinian, U.S.O. show.
Some newly discovered!
Recently digitized!
Available to the public for the first time!
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Hawaii
- President Roosevelt (movie only)
- Glamour Girls
- Military Personnel
- Military Manuevers
- Baseball
- Waterfalls
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Palmyra Island & Ellice Islands (Tuvalu)
- Native homes
- Native dances
- Military Personnel
- Flora & Fauna
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Other Pacific Scenes
- Aboard ship
- Flora & Fauna
- Sunsets
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Tinian
- B-29s
- P-51s
- Chamorros
- Koreans
- Japanese
- Baseball
- U.S.O.
- Construction
- Flag-raising
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