U.S. President Harry S. Truman on USS Williamsburg in Bermuda. A fishing party boards a boat and pulls away into the Great Sound. The boat underway in the Great Sound. Another group boards a boat and pulls away. Men on the deck wave. Men of the fishing party come back and board USS Williamsburg. Truman in water. He hangs onto a platform on a gangway and then swims around a bit. Truman and other men swimming. USS Williamsburg leaves Bermuda. A blinker signal comes from port director's shack.
Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway code named Operation Weserubung during World War II. German aircraft in flight. A navigator in an aircraft plots a chart. The aircraft in flight. German troops seated in the aircraft. Seaplanes parked in water. German transport aircraft in flight over trees. The transport aircraft parked at an airfield. German troops disembark from the aircraft. A large group of German troops march in front of a hangar. A German guard. The aircraft in flight. A large fire burns in woods. Smoke rises due to the fire. Transport airplanes and troops in the foreground. German fighter airplanes in flight. A soldier speaks over a radio. The soldiers at a machine gun. Heavy artillery firing. German officers on a range finder. The seaplanes in flight over a Norwegian port. German bombers in flight. Bombing on the coastline in Norway. Smoke rises due to bombing. A pilot at the controls of an airplane.
U.S. Marines boarding troop transport ships in World War 2. A line of the transport ships underway in the Pacific, en route to Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. The Destroyer, USS Frazier (DD-607) seen close to port, astern, with a line extending to the transport ship. A sealed packet of orders for the transport and the Marines is delivered over the line. Scene shifts to an officer briefing marines with help of a large relief map of Betio in the Tarawa atoll. The map is complete, in every detail, down to models of structures there. Marines are seen belting machine gun ammunition and test firing their weapons. Marines on deck exercise doing calisthenics. Officer briefing Coast Guard and Navy coxswains who will be operating landing craft during the amphibious assault. Religious service being conducted on deck by a military Chaplains, on evening of November 19, 1943. Catholic chaplain, Father Francis W. Kelly, Chaplain, U.S.N.R. saying Mass, for marines. (Narrator comments that many of these Marines were killed the next morning.)
The U.S. Task Force advances in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Aerial view of a small ship at a harbor. The small ships being strafed in the harbor. Bomb hits exploding in water. The building along the dock area being strafed. Smoke rises from the dock area due to explosion. A tramp steamer being strafed in the harbor. The ships in a river being strafed. The tramp steamer being strafed by machine gun bullets. Tramp steamer underway as it is being strafed alongside a port. A U.S. Navy torpedo bomber TBM Avenger in flight over a ship. A coast line in the far background.
Nazi airplanes attack a French convoy in Netherlands during World War II. French troops on deck of a ship. A flag flutters on a mast. German airplanes in flight over the convoy. The airplanes drop bombs. The French ships being attacked. Ships burn due to bombing. Smoke rises in the background. The enemy airplanes in flight. A French ship underway as it burns. A French soldier fires an anti aircraft gun. A damaged French ship. The troops on a street. The troops carry an injured on a stretcher. The soldiers walk in a line at a port. They carry guns on their shoulder. A wrecked German airplane. The soldiers stand near the airplane.
People celebrate Liberation of Greece by Allied Forces in Athens, Greece during World War II. The British battleships underway. The British troops aboard a ship in the foreground. The troops disembark the ship at Athens port. The troops march in a squad. The troops marching. British troops greeted by civilians. The civilians crowd at the Constitution Square. The crowd cheer and hold banners. The troops celebrate liberation at the Constitution Square. The British troops lined up. The Greek Parliament Building. Premier of Greece Andreas Papandreou pays wreath to the unknown soldiers. The soldiers stand in formation. A view of the city. The soldiers holding flags of Greece, march. The soldiers stand in formation. Premier Papandreou hoists the flag. A soldier in the foreground salutes. The civilians salute as the flag is hoisted. A view of the city.
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