# US Navy Blast Marshall Islands

This short newsreel, produced for the home market, shows the first offensive action of the Pacific War by the U.S. Navy: a raid on Makin Island in the Marshalls conducted by the USS Yorktown battle group under command of Admiral William Halsey. The film claims to show Japanese cruisers and even an aircraft carrier sunk by American forces, but in reality there were no such enemy losses.

- Kind: Newsreel
- Year: 1942
- Runtime: 9 min
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: News, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/UsNavyBlastMarshallIslands)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/UsNavyBlastMarshallIslands?play=1)