Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Normandy task force including landing crafts underway in the English Channel. An LCT(Landing Craft Tank), an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) and an LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) underway in rough seas. The LCI dead at water and three LCTs underway in the background. Soldiers attach a block to a LCVP. An LCVP alongside a transport ship as it tries to back over it. The LCVP fails to back over the transport ship and moves away. A hook being secured to boat falls of the LCVP. The boat falls hooked onto the LCVP and the LCVP being hoisted away. A man climbs a Jacob's ladder onto a boat boom with an LCVP below. A boat crew climbs a Jacob's ladder. An LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized) alongside a transport ship.
A documentary depicts Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini as he conducts the NBS Symphony Orchestra in a radio broadcast of Giuseppe Verdi's Ferza del Destino in the United States. Musical note of the Ferza del Destino. Toscanini conducts the orchestra as men at the radio station work on controls. A tower at the radio station. Various instruments being played by the members of the orchestra. Toscanini conducts the orchestra.
Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini is seen in a room of his house, Wave Hill, in the Hudson Hill section of Riverdale in the Bronx, New York City. Toscanini is handed a record by teenage boy (possibly his grandson) and Toscanini plays the record on a console phonograph player. He walks up and down in the room as he listens to the music. Narrator discusses Toscanini's rejection of fascism. and then names various other Italians living in the U.S. who similarly reject fascism: Next shot shows Italian historian Gaetano Salvemini delivering a lecture to a class at Harvard University. Italian writer Giuseppe Antonio Borgese leads a small workshop class at the University of Chicago. Italian American press publishers of newspaper Il Nuovo Mondo (Giuseppe Lupus, Aurelio Natoli, and Carlo Emanuele Prato) are seen gathered at a desk in New York City. An Italian editor, Colonel Randolfo Pacciardi, works at a newspaper establishment. An Italian priest and patriot, Don Luigi Sturzo, reads a book. Another close-up view of Arturo Toscanini.
A documentary depicts Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini in the United States. Jan Peerce and Westminster Choir at a recording studio during the radio broadcast of Forza del Destino. NBC Symphony Orchestra at NBC Studio in New York. Toscanini conducts the orchestra. Westminster Choir sings as Toscanini conducts the music.
U.S. aircraft bombard Japan during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 aircraft on an airstrip in Saipan. Pilots being briefed by Brigadier General Emmett O' Donell. Officers make final checks about the mission on a map. B-29 aircraft take off for the bombing mission. Aircraft in formation flight. Bombs being dropped on Tokyo and smoke rises as bombs impact. Aircraft return to the air base after the mission. Smoke rises from the airfield as a result of Japanese attack. B-29 aircraft on fire and smoke rises. A Japanese bomber aircraft goes into a kamikaze suicide dive. Smoke rises from the airfield. Wreckage of B-29 aircraft.
The U.S. infantry school displays new 57mm and 75mm kickless and portable rifles at Fort Benning, Georgia. Two U.S. troops sit near a gun. Magazines lay near the gun and troops load guns. A rifle and a mortar hung as a soldier stands near it. Soldier loads mortar and it is fired. Soldiers fire recoilless gun. Blast occurs at target. (World War II period).
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