Link to order this clip: http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675065966_Pearl-Harbor_M-1-rifles_American-soldiers_machine-gun-fire_paratroopers-descend Historic Stock Footage Archival and Vintage Video Clips in HD. American soldiers firing rifles and machine guns during World War II. A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. Past events depict smoke rising from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii after Japanese attack during World War II. American soldiers fire machine guns during the war. The soldiers run through muddy waters. Paratroopers descend and land for an airborne invasion. Infantrymen fire M-1 rifles. Location: Pearl Harbor Hawaii. Date: 1955. 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.