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Marshall Tito, with American and British envoys and his headquarters staff at their Mountain Headquarters in World war II
Film opens showing a Partisan Sentry posted outside Marshall Tito's mountain stronghold in Drvar, Western Bosnia, Yugoslavia, during the Spring of 1944, in World War 2. Views of other sentries on guard duty. A Partisan officer steps onto the porch of the headquarters and looks through a pair of binoculars. Closeup of a sentry. Scene shifts to Marshall Tito stepping from the main porch to a lower one, accompanied by American Army Major Linn M. Farish, American Liaison to the Partisans, and British Brigadier General Fitzroy Maclean, Winston Churchill's special envoy to the Yugoslav leader. Tito smokes a pipe, as he and Farish converse. MacLean smokes a cigarette. In next scene Farish is also smoking a cigarette. Major Farish removes his hat and tosses it over the railing (perhaps because Tito is not wearing one). Tito pumps his arm several times while MacLean removes his hat. Then, speaking to MacLean, Parish pumps his arm as well. Next, they are joined by Tito's Chief of Staff, General Koča Popović. Views of Tito and Popović. Change of scene shows a British military photographer upon a railing taking a still picture of Tito and his Partisan Supreme Command (cabinet and principal staff officers). After the photographer leaves, they remain together with Tito's pet dog, Tigar.
U.S. Army Air Force transport aircraft carry supplies over the Himalayan Mountains to Kunming during World War II.
A film based on getting U.S. supplies to Kunming, China from Chabua, India during World War II. An animated map links Chabua with Kunming. A USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) C-87 Liberator Express in flight over the Hump. An aerial view of the Himalayan Mountains. A USAAF C-54 Skymaster in flight. An animated representation of the content of materials carried by an aircraft over the Hump. USAAF transport planes land at Kunming in China. An animated map depicts the transportation condition over the Burma Road in January 1941 and by air over the Hump in January 1944. Dispersal of cargo and U.S. troops to various fighting fronts from Kunming. A transport aircraft takes off from Kunming. Chinese troops march. U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell with U.S. Lieutenant General Claire Chennault in Kunming. A formation of transport planes.
Adolf Hitler's companion Eva Braun, with family and friends, leaving Hitler's mountain residence Berghof in Germany.
Eva Braun’s parents Friedrich Braun (Fritz) and Franziska (Fanny), leaving the Berghof with one of the Scottish terriers. Behind them are their daughters Ilse and Eva Braun with two children of Herta Schneider. The Berghof is camouflaged, implying the footage is from the summer of 1944.
Mixture of scenes from various amphibious assaults on Japanese occupied islands in the Pacific during the U.S. island hopping campaigns of World War II
First scenes show U.S. Marines riding in a landing vehicle tracked (LVT) heading toward a Japanese occupied island in the Pacific. View from one of the landing craft of heavy smoke obscuring the island coast. Next, a dozen landing craft from the USS George Clymer (APA-27) are seen with mountains of the target island looming in the background. View from a different perspective shows several landing craft heading toward an inlet to the island. View from a landing craft of a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" airplane flying overhead. Closeup of U.S. soldiers in a landing craft headed toward a different Japanese occupied island. Soldiers leaving a landing craft in the surf. View from inside a landing craft as Marines head ashore. Soldiers splashing in the surf. Troops wading ashore. Soldier dug in on beach near underbrush, firing many round from his Browning M1919 machine gun. Marine firing his rifle behind a palm tree. Troops seeking cover at very edge of shore. Some lying in the water, before moving on. A soldier firing an automatic weapon through foliage. A bomb explodes near an invasion ship. Troops descending on rope nets from the troopship, USS Crescent City (APA-21) and entering her Higgins boats. Heavy equipment and ammunition being offloaded from the troop transport ship. Marines coming ashore. An LVT in the background. Marines behind a barricade built by the Japanese. Marines throwing hand grenades and firing Browning M1919 machine guns. Flame throwers being used to force Japanese from strongholds. Marines gathered all along a shore line. A bulldozer driving along the waters edge. Soldiers rolling steel mesh across the sand. An antiaircraft machine gun with a side magazine mounted on a jeep, moves on the sand. Several ensuing scenes show flame throwers being used. Marines near a wrecked Japanese structure and then escorting a Japanese prisoner. A group of Japanese prisoners being spoken to by a Marine with a microphone. Marines hunkered down on a beach. One is cranking a hand powered radio transmitter. Front ramp of a landing craft is dropped down with a splash at waters edge. An M3A1 light tank drives off the landing craft. A truck being offloaded onto the shore. A heavy field artillery piece being moved into position. Troops work to move another field artillery piece into position. Trucks and other vehicles wading through shallow water as they leave an LST. Troops wading ashore from the LST. Trucks arriving on the shore. A tractor pulls a canvas covered vehicle. Soldiers ride aboard a light tank. Unusual view of troops assembled on shore of a mountain with ice seen in places on it (likely in the Aleutians). Crowded beachhead with LST 477 seen beached. Marines looking at destroyed Shore defense installation containing heavy gun. Remains of a 4-engine Japanese Kawanishi H8K2 (Emily) flying boat in the water. Seabees building an airfield with heavy construction equipment. Troops gathered around a Navy F4F aircraft that landed on the new (unfinished) airfield. Closeup of the smiling pilot climbing down from his plane. Troops saluting as the American flag is raised on remains of a Palm tree trunk, on Eniwetok, February 1944. Remains of a Japanese shrine and views of dead Japanese soldiers.
American women at home and work in the context of WW2
Graph compares the number of female factory workers to men during World War II. Factory workers producing war materiel in the United States. Workers using lathe. Welders welding machines. Tanks are loaded onto rail freight cars. Railroad freight yards and shipping. Posters advertising war jobs for women. Women interviewed for war jobs by men. Alarm clock rings as tired woman wakes up in bed. Women in front of Sterner's Department Store and buying fur coats. Women reading newspapers while smoking. Crowd trying to get onto an overcrowded bus. A mother comforts her boy who has skinned his knee. Men and women leaving a factory. Interior of World War 2 airplane factory. Soldier examines broken radio on battlefield. Wounded American soldiers carried on litters. A telegraph is delivered to a woman by a girl. Woman reads the telegraph. Woman crying in bed while reading the telegraph that announces her husband's death, while her son comforts her. Close up photo of deceased husband. Montage of graveyards with gold service star superimposed on image. Newspaper headline "All Job Deferments Face Drastic Review" View of men inside Selective Service local board 226 office. Some men being drafted then in 1944 are shown, including older men, more fathers, and men who had been doing essential industrial work. Man working with metal lathe. American soldiers climbing mountain in snow in Italian mountains. American soldiers wade through deep water in a jungle region of the Pacific. View of a sinking ship or merchant ship, and two crew members jumping off the sinking ship into the water. View of London England blitz damage and devastation, and people digging through piles of rubble from bombing. Dead bodies of adults and children from war in Europe. Crying women, London Blitz. Woman holding boy in arms. Woman kissing girl. Old woman sewing in factory to help with the war production effort. Women picking crops to help with farming and supply of food for soldiers.
The Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II
Scenes filmed by Navy and Marine combat photographers, of the Battle for Iwo Jima, in February and March, 1944, during World War 2. View from a boat offshore, of Mount Suribachi, on the Island of Iwo Jima. Warships of the U.S. 5th Fleet attack with naval gunfire, as landing craft manuever near shore. U.S. Marines aboard Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTs) head for the beach, with the heavy cruiser, USS Baltimore (CA-68) in the background. U.S. Carrier-based Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft drops bombs on Mount Suribachi. Landing craft arriving at a fairly level area of beach. U.S. marines moving cautiously on the beachhead. The USS Baltimore and a Fletcher class destroyer offshore in background. Marines hunkered down with smoke rising near them, and then moving forward again, through the black sands. Closeup of a marine with flame thrower. Several U.S. Chance Vought F4U Corsair aircraft fly overhead, dropping bombs on the mountain. Marines continue to move forward, under constant fire from Japanese small arms. A heavy landing craft Infantry, LCI(H) moves toward shore in background. A DUKW ("Duck") coming ashore. Marines using a crane to offload a 105mm howitzer from a landing craft. As they raise the gun, the landing craft moves away and marines Hook the howitzer to a DUKW to help move it. Next, marines are seen setting up two 105s on the beachhead and firing them. Marines with more artillery pieces stacked on the beachhead. A gunboat, LCI (G), firing from close to the shore behind them. Marines digging in sand that the narrator calls the floor of an active volcano. Smoking sulphur gases are seen rising behind them. The USS Baltimore firing her guns from close to shore. Machine gun tracer rounds crossing the beachhead, as Naval gunfire resumes from offshore. Marines crawling and then occasionally sprinting forward across the sand dunes. (One carries a stretcher.) Four marines carrying one wounded back to the beachhead, on a stretcher. Two marines carry another between them. Marines scrambling over brush and rough ground. View from hillside of marines climbing up from below, as shell bursts only a few yards away. Scene shifts to later in the battle for Iwo Jima. A catapillar tractor is parked near bodies of Japanese soldiers strewn across the landscape. (Narrator notes that more than 14 thousand such dead had been counted by March 6, 1944.) Finally, the iconic moving images of U.S. marines raising the American flag over Mount Suribachi.
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