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African American soldiers engaged on all fronts in World War 2

Film opens with map of the world showing the various theaters of operation in World War II. Narrator refers to Allies liberating town after town, as they advance. View of American troops being welcomed in a European town during an advance (probably Italy in 1944). Next, African American troops are seen boarding troop transport ships. A huge convoy of ships is seen from the air. Huge piles of war materiel on a dock. Ammunition being delivered by landing craft from the transport ship USS Hunter Liggett (APA-14) to American troops at a beachhead in the Pacific. An African American sailors directs the lowering of a piece of artillery from a ship into a landing craft. Construction equipment being used to clear the way for a new landing field. Docks, roads, and bridges being built as the Allies advance. American troops in the swamps of the South Pacific. American Army engineers clearing trees to build the Alaska Highway (ALCAN Highway) in 1942. Corps of Engineers building the Ledo Road (from India to China) during the war. African American soldiers building a bridge across a river in Europe. A U.S. Army truck under fire, driving along a dirt road in Europe as shells burst all around it. U.S. troops firing various kinds of field artillery and tank guns. U.S. infantryman using a flame thrower. Closeup of African American soldier using a bayonet and others firing small arms. A tank being blown up by artillery fire. A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero aircraft maneuvers overhead in the Pacific theater. An African American soldier runs to man his Browning .50-caliber, water-cooled antiaircraft machine gun, and begins firing as the Zero fighter plane strafes his position. Closeup of Japanese pilot in his cockpit and his machine guns firing from leading edges of his plane. His rounds strike all around the U.S. gunner, who turns and follows him with more fire. His tracers show behind the plane. Closeup of the African American gunner as he continues firing. View of the Japanese airplane rolling over and diving. Next the Japanese plane, aflame, crashes on a tropical island and explodes. (Note: It is apparent that some of these combat scenes have been made up of clips from other sources, edited into this film.) (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Location: European Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077359
Footage of German leaders and animated map depicts territorial ambitions of the Axis nations in the European Theater.

Territorial ambitions of the Axis nations in the European Theater during World War II. Pictures of the President of the Reichstag Hermann Goring, Deputy to Adolf Hitler Rudolf Hess (or Heß), Dietrich, Reinhardt, Todt, Darrey, Ley and Paul Joseph Goebbels. A large crowd gives the Nazi salute. A poster reads 'Impero Romano'. Animated map depicts territorial ambitions of the Axis nations.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070860
Norwegian troops are inspected by Vidkun Quisling and German officers in the European Theater during World War II.

Norwegian troops in the European Theater during World War II. Minister President of Norway Vidkun Quisling and German officers inspect the troops. A statue in the background. Buildings in the background. Vichy French troops march. They entrain in Marseilles, France. They meet their loved ones and board trains. They bid good bye as the trains leave the station.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675065448
Minister President of Norway Vidkun Quisling meets Norwegian collaborationists in the European Theater during World War II.

Norwegian collaborationists in the European Theater during World War II. A flag flying on a flag pole. The collaborationists get food. Men serve them food from containers. Men and women eat the food. Minister President of Norway Vidkun Quisling arrives to meet them.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1942
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675065449
A German flier is rescued from the sea by the crew of a Red Cross aircraft in the European Theater in World War 2.

A Red Cross seaplane on a rescue operation in the European Theater. The sea plane takes off. The aircraft in flight over the sea. The pilot and co-pilot in the cockpit. They spot the stranded flier below. A German flier in a life raft. The pilot lands the seaplane near the raft. The co-pilot approaches the rafts, and brings the rafts back to the aircraft with the help of a rope. The wounded flier in reeled aboard. The co-pilot boards the aircraft. The seaplane takes off.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675021869
USAAF B-17 aircraft in flight as bomb bay doors open in European Theater during World War II.

United States Army Air Force B-17 aircraft in flight in European Theater during World War II. United States 8th Air Force B-17 aircraft in flight. Bomb bay doors of the aircraft open. Five B-17 aircraft fly in a formation over water. A B-17G aircraft in flight and number 4 engine being feathered and restarted. A formation of seven B-17 aircraft in flight.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059936
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