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Fury in the Pacific is a 1945 American documentary short film about a pair of World War II battles in the Pacific: the Battle of Peleliu and the Battle of Angaur.It was co-produced by the United States Army, United States Navy, and the United States Marines, and directed by a series of combat cameraman — of whom nine became casualties of the battles they were filming. [1]
Where the bottom is rocky and affords places for it to anchor, giant kelp forms extensive kelp beds with large "floating canopies". [8] When present in large numbers, giant kelp forms kelp forests that are home to many marine species that depend upon the kelp directly for food and shelter, or indirectly as a hunting ground for prey. Both the ...
Kelp forests are also some of the world's largest carbon sinks, and the Great Southern Reef therefore acts as a buffer against climate change. [7] Unfortunately, an estimated 95% of the giant kelp forests off the coast of Tasmania have died off over the past few decades due higher water temperatures and the long-spined sea urchin. [6] [8]
Louis R. Lowery (July 24, 1916 – April 15, 1987) was a United States Marine Corps captain.He was the only Marine Corps combat photographer to cover six major campaigns during World War II.
Giant kelp marine forests are diverse, complex and highly productive components and foundation species of cold-water rocky marine coastlines around the world. Giant kelp marine forests in Australia are typically found in temperate south eastern waters on rocky reefs where conditions are cool and reasonably nutrient rich. [4]
William Homer Genaust (12 October 1906 – 4 March 1945) was an American war photographer during World War II best known for filming the second U.S. flag-raising on top of Mount Suribachi on 23 February 1945, which was immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's famous photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.
The Aleutian Islands campaign (Japanese: アリューシャン方面の戦い, romanized: Aryūshan hōmen no tatakai) was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August 1943 on and around the Aleutian Islands in the American Theater of World War II during the Pacific War. It was the only military campaign of World War II fought ...
Wilson's time exposure of Japanese attack on Marines at Bloody Nose Ridge, Fall, 1944, with dramatic tracer ammunition fire SSgt William G. Wilson, Combat Cameraman with 2nd Marine Air Wing in South Pacific, in 1944. Wilson began his film career as a combat cameraman with the United States Marine Corps in the South Pacific during World War II.