Map sketching positions of German forces at Alcheren and Arnhem separated by Allied forces at Antwerp and Numegen, Belgium, during World War 2. Views of the port at Antwerp silent and unusable due to German control of the Scheldt River downstream. British forces attacking those German forces at Walcheren, as Canadian, and Polish forces secure the South bank of the river. Royal Navy and Marines and Norwegians operating in the river itself. British minesweepers in the Scheldt River. View from the mine sweeper as mines are destroyed raising large plumes of water. The first supply ship arriving at port of Antwerp after Allied forces secured the river to the sea. The restored derricks and port facilities busy handling Allied ships and supplies. American Army trucks carrying supplies from the Port of Antwerp to Allied forces. Closeup of an African American soldier driving a truck. Supply trucks maneuvering around obstacles in a town. British soldier directing truck convoy traffic. Allied artillery barrage at night.
A survey of the damage inflicted upon Kobe, Japan during World War II. Damage inflicted on the area shows the effect of fire on a three-story brick load bearing structure in Tomiya-Cho of which the floors have collapsed. Interiors of a bombed out building. South and west faces of a two-story brick load bearing structure which was gutted by the fire. This building is located west of School Higashide-cho. A two-story brick load bearing structure which was gutted by the fire. This building was the Yamada Bank. Another building gutted by the fire is located on the main street in Toba-cho. Higashi Yanigawara-cho shows bank vaults among the rubble. Burnt out area of Higashi Yanigawara-cho. A private storehouse amongst the rubble. Rubbled area between elevated railroad and streetcar tracks.
A survey of the damage inflicted upon Kobe, Japan during World War II. A view of Kobe Station Kawasaki and heavy industry and Higashi Kawasaki-cho. An area near Higashi Yuenchi Park shows effect of fire on a light steel frame structure and 2 and 3 story brick buildings. A two-story brick building was gutted by the fire and its south wall has collapsed. Gutted and partially collapsed buildings one block north of a harbor police building. A ruined brick building with rubble in the foreground. Rubble and damaged buildings near Hong Kong Shanghai Bank (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation).
U.S. Army Colonel Keith K. Compton, commander of the 376th Bomb Group in Libya, North Africa briefs his Army Air Force aircraft crews for the first Allied bombing mission against the Nazi German ME-109 (Messerschmitt Bf 109) aircraft manufacturing plant south of Vienna at Wiener-Neustadt, Austria, in World War 2. The map that Colonel Compton is using shows the air routes to and from the target. The mission will commence early the next day, on 13 August 1943. An unrelated scene shows U.S. Army and Army Air Force men conversing with an Australian soldier in a summer uniform.
Narrated feature on the Korean War and the arrival and initial reactions of 24th Division Army troops during the first 50 days of war. Soldiers boarding landing craft and landing on beaches. Tending wounded soldiers. Advancing on foot. U.S. Air Force supply land landing and soldiers unloading boxes from it. Troops assembling with gear. Soldier holding box containing food rations. U.S. Soldiers in line crossing bridges and into towns as Korean citizens look on. South Korean soldiers marching through villages, looking weary from war. Villagers carrying belongings and leaving a town. U.S. soldiers march through an empty town with all shops and homes closed. U.S. soldiers digging gun placements for artillery and machine guns. Soldiers cooking. One stirs pot with knife. Battle scenes with U.S. soldiers firing artillery, rifles, machine guns. Wounded on stretchers.
U.S. Army soldiers during the Korean War in South Korea. Stack of flamethrowers on the ground. 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry regiment, Battalion supply clerk shows a comrade how a flame thrower operates. One of the many wrecked bridges that had to be by passed. A military jeep passes by the bridge.
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