World War II British Hawker Hurricane aircraft in flight over Malta. British lookout atop building peering through binoculars. Enemy aircraft spotter on lookout speaks into microphone. Air raid flag being hoisted to masthead. Siren atop building starts spinning. British Tommy operating portable hand siren. Maltese residents running for an air raid shelter. Lookout firing pistol in air. British soldiers running to anti-aircraft gun stations. Women and children enter shelter. British pilots scramble and are seen running to and getting into Spitfire airplanes. British soldiers operate an antiaircraft gun and fire at incoming German Luftwaffe aircraft. Maltese peasants stopping work in field and watching the attacking planes. Anti-aircraft guns in action. German planes attacking and dropping bombs on British-held targets in Malta. Junkers 88 streaks across sky as Spitfires dive after it. Anti-aircraft batteries firing. Sky scene of flak and dog fights showing Junkers 88 plane being hit, falling to ground and exploding. British bobby wounded in air raid shelter. Women and children in shelter. Bomb hits. Scenes of fire and smoke. Civilians leave shelter.
Lieutenant General Mark Clark and General Alphonse Juin during French troops in Italy. Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, liaison officer between Fifth Army and General Juin, speaking to French officers. Light Tank rumbling along highway. Two French soldiers standing in turret. Scout cars mounting 50 cal Air cooled machine guns carry French soldiers along the highway. Italian women knitting on doorstep. 2 ½ ton truck rolling through mud and rain. (World War II period).
Truck pulling tarpaulin in covered gun across steel tread way pontoon bridge in rain in Italy. Scout cars with French troops crossing pontoon bridge in rain. Jeep with French soldiers pulling a 37mm gun along muddy road. French soldier getting astride motorcycle and driving off in the rain. Tanks and scout cars on road. (World War II period).
Bivouac area in orchard in Italy. French soldiers watch another soldier roast a goat over an open fire. Men slicing meat off the roast goat and eating. Scenes of tent bivouac area. Man getting into tent. (World War II period).
Street scene in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, shows American Red Cross Service Club, next to a florist shop, on Shipquay Place, Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Civilians walk past on the sidewalk. A bicyclist passes in the street. Several U.S. sailors come out of the passage to the club. A U.S. Marine and a sailor stop to look in the florist shop window. Sign in window reads: "We Can Send Flowers by Wire to U.S.A. & Canada." A bus passes. Two men pass with a pushcart. A marine stops to chat with the sailors at the club entrance. Another bus passes. A bus stops and U.S. sailors and marines run to catch it as it pulls out, without success. They return to the sidewalk by the Northern Bank building. Later, sailors are seen boarding a another bus parked at the curb.
Three U.S. Sailors are seen asking bus information from a policeman in front of the Northern Bank building on Shipquay Place, Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, during World War 2. He converses with them and points toward a bus stop (not seen) and checks his watch as they leave, following his directions. Scene shifts away, from Northern Ireland, to the newly opened American Rainbow Corner Red Cross Club at 23 Shaftesbury Avenue, W.I., London, England. U.S. soldiers mingle with English civilians on the street and sidewalks. Many soldiers enter the club. Civilian vehicles drive along Shaftsbury Avenue. A civilian in front of the club hands out travel brochures and tickets to servicemen. A group of U.S. soldiers strolls out of the club. Closeup of the American flag flying at front of the club. Soldiers relax and smoke in the sunshine in front of the club.
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