British General David Henderson decorates Generals in Tours, France during World War I. General Henderson decorates General McCaw,General William Wallace Atterbury, General Dawes and General McCoy. General Harts, General Edgar Jadwin, General Langfitt, Connor, General Roackenbach, U.S. Army Major General George S. Simonds, General McCaw, General William Wallace Atterbury, General Dawes and General McCoy lined up with medals around their neck. Several views of the Generals talking to General Henderson and congratulating each other.
Allied bombing in northwest Germany during World War II. Several U.S. aircraft on an airfield in Britain. A United States Army Air Force heavy bomber B-17 Flying Fortress taxis and takes off from a runway. Several bomber aircraft in flight. USAAF fighter aircraft P-38 Lightnings taking off from the airfield. Allied soldiers looking at the aircraft. The P-38s in flight. A USAAF fighter aircraft P-47 Thunderbolt takes off from the runway. Four P-47s in a formation flight. View of the P-38s and the B-17s in flight over target areas in northwest Germany. British bomber aircraft in flight. A pilot in a cockpit. View of the naval base which is a major target area. A large explosion on the ship building center at the naval base. Thick smoke rises from the explosions. Several aircraft in flight. B-17s in flight. Officers standing at the railing of a ship. A pilot getting out of a damaged U.S. aircraft which managed to land on an airfield. Soldiers standing beside the aircraft.
The Royal Air Force bombs Burma during World War II. British airmen on an airfield in Burma. Bombs brought in on a bomb cart. An airman rolling a bomb to the underside of an aircraft to fix it onto the bomb rack. A few airmen fixing the bomb onto the bomb rack on the underside of the wing. A man in front of one of the wings of the aircraft and the pilot standing in the cockpit with the hatch open. The bomber aircraft taxis on the airfield and takes off. The aircraft in flight over the clouds. The pilot in the cockpit. Aerial views of the target areas in Burma. Bombs being dropped on the target areas. Explosions occur and smoke rises from the explosions.
The Nuremberg Trials in Nuremberg, Germany after the conclusion of World War 2. Official cars passing on roads guarded by policemen. A signboard on a barricade on a road reads 'Stop, Halt'. A court building with Allied flags displayed on the fence of the building. A few men and women entering through the gate to the court. Guards at the entrance gate. A motorcyclist is stopped at the entrance by a guard. The guard standing with a gun. The defendants, Nazi officials, climbing up the steps to the court room. Russian, French and British officials seated in the courtroom during the trial. A judge lists the inhuman activities and atrocities of the Nazi leaders for which they are being tried. Views from concentration camps: An emaciated prisoner at a camp. Bodies of exterminated prisoners laid on the ground in a camp. Bodies of tortured prisoners lying on the ground. Nazi officials seated in the courtroom listening to the proceedings. Guards standing behind the Nazi chiefs seated in a cubicle. The judge, seated with other officials, reading from a document. Other officials seated in the courtroom. Piles of paper strewn on the floor of the courtroom after the end of a day's proceedings. The people in the courtroom listen to Sir Geoffrey Lawrence as he pronounces sentences including death by hanging for Goering, life imprisonment for Hess, death by hanging for von Ribbentrop and for Streicher. Nazi officials listen to the verdict, 11 of them would be hanged till death, 6 of them would be jailed and 3 would be acquitted. Other Nazi officials listen to the verdict. Guards standing behind them. Men on a platform prepare for a Nazi official's hanging. Brief gallows scene at end of clip of an unidentified war criminal being hanged.
Clip opens with brief World War I scene, circa 1917, of new American army recruits receiving army uniforms being issued by a U.S. Army Quartermaster. Clip then covers U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps' combat operations in various Theaters of Operations during World War II. Quartermaster Corps soldiers with rifles under the cover of a military truck during battle. Troops in trucks. An aircraft in low flight over a field. A U.S. Army truck. A Quartermaster fires an anti aircraft gun. Explosions occur and smoke rises. A British tank in a field. Soldiers beside a truck. Cans and barrels stacked on the ground. An enemy German tank in a field. Soldiers take cover. Quartermasters with guns in a trench. They come up the trench in prone positions. Dramatized battle scene with several Quartermaster corps casualties beside a wire fence. Soldiers prepare a mortar gun. An anti aircraft gun on an army truck. A soldier takes aim and fires a rifle during training. The Quartermaster flag hoisted on a pole. Actual footage shows aerial view of Bataan, and then ground views of groups of remaining U.S. Army soldiers around time of surrender of Bataan in April 1942. American soldier seen with their hands up and under guard of Japanese soldiers during Bataan surrender. Landing crafts arrive at a beach in North Africa. Supplies being offloaded at various battle fronts of World War 2. Soldiers and supplies off-loaded on the beach. Quartermasters seated on supplies boxes. Landing crafts arrive at a beach in the South West Pacific. Troops move across the beach. Troops disembark from landing crafts and move across a beach in Sicily, Italy. The Quartermasters unload boxes of supplies during various beach landings. They unload supplies and fire artillery on a beach head in Italy. Troops in trucks. A convoy of trucks loaded with supplies. Ammunition, ration and personnel in trucks move from Algeria to the Tunisian Front. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Trucks advance through smoke at night and in difficult conditions. Quartermaster General Major General E. B. Gregory speaks about the Quartermaster Corps. He says that the Quartermasters distribute goods to the army during training and combat. The movement of the Corps should be so regulated so as to deliver the goods at the right time in the right quantity.
Allied Army Generals in Maastricht, Netherlands during World War II. Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Omar Bradley and U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Simpson at U.S. 9th Army Headquarters. They walk along a street.
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