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Technician demonstrates the expanding and closing sidewall canvas of Sherman Tank Duplex Drive at a factory
Sherman Medium M4 Tank Duplex Drive. The Sherman DD- A report to the Commanding General, European Theater of Operations. Sherman Duplex Drive (DD) in water. Four soldiers on Sherman. Sherman covered with canvas. Technician at Metropolitan Cammel Midlands factory works on the Sherman. Gauges on tank. Machines on tank. Canvas side wall goes up. Technician puts struts into place. The canvas expands. He pushes a lever and the canvas goes down. Barrel of artillery visible. He turns its barrel. (Note: filmed at Metropolitan Cammel Midlands factory, Birmingham, England who built and designed the DD equipment to be fitted to U.S. built Sherman tanks. As it is a prototype, the air controls are not in the same place as on production machines.) (World War II period).
Nazi planes follow a German battleship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Naval combat in European Theater during World War II. Two Nazi torpedo bombers in flight follow a German battleship. Ship's Captain on board the battle ship looks through binoculars. Sailors run on the flight deck of the ship to their battle stations during an emergency. Sailors climb up the ladder. Naval artillery turned to a different direction. Sailors put on their gas masks.
Nazi plane and Kriegsmarine ship lay smoke screen in the Atlantic Ocean.
Naval combat in European Theater during World War II. Two Nazi Naval officer on board a Kriegsmarine ship as a German pilot salutes them. A Nazi biplane float plane takes off from aboard a German battleship in the Atlantic Ocean. Plane in flight. German aircraft lays smoke screen as it leaves behind a smoky trail. German ship also lays smoke screen. Smoke covers entire area. Smoke over the Ocean water.
Nazi twin-engined amphibian biplane bombers drop bombs on submarine
Naval combat in European Theater during World War II. Two German Heinkel He 59 twin-engine biplane floatplane torpedo bombers in flight over the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. A submarine is sighted, underway on the surface. On board a bomber, a crewman pulls up a lever and bombs are released from the aircraft. Bombs destroy the submarine.
Nazi naval artillery fired in the Atlantic Ocean.
Naval combat in European Theater during World War II. Two amphibian biplane aircraft in flight over the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. A German Kriegsmarine ship underway at sea. German gun crew at naval guns aboard German battleship fire the guns. Ship underway at sea as a blanket of smoke engulfs it.
American Undersecretary of War speaks to difficulties facing Allies in confronting Germany and Japan in World War II
Undersecretary of War, Robert Porter Patterson, Sr. speaks about a report from the General staff outlining the needs for combating Germany and Japan in World War 2. He cites Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, as an example of what will be needed. He continues to narrate in the background as an animated map appears showing the buildup of supplies and Allied forces in North Africa; Allied air forces flying 60 thousand sorties over Sicily and, the direct amphibious assault using 3,200 vessels. Map also depicts opposing forces of 12 (“unwilling”) Italian Divisions and 3-1/2 German Divisions. View of Allied troops carrying some of their 31 thousand casualties on stretchers from field ambulances. Allied medics attending to the wounded. Some are seen lying on stretchers in a row on the ground near a wall. Interior of a field hospital where surgeons and other medical personnel treat the wounded. Animated map shifts to Europe with Germany at its center, showing , in contrast to Sicily that was only an “outpost,”, the heavily fortified perimeter of Axis controlled areas; the axis industrial might; and the disposition of 300 German Divisions (mostly on the Eastern front) defending the region. Next, the map illustrates Japan’s defended regions in the Pacific Image returns to Undersecretary Patterson i n his office, speaking of the Allied offensives planned for next year (1944), and emphasizing their challenge and difficulty. Scene shifts to General Jonathan Wainwright and his garrison at Corregidor, in the Philippines, surrendering to Japanese forces in 1941. Japanese military camera pans over the Americans being taken prisoner. Other Americans and Filipinos are seen being marched together under guard. Scene shifts to classic views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. View of Japanese soldiers executing two Chinese civilians in 1937. Dangling bodies of persons hung by Nazis during Operation Barbarossa in Russia, in 1941 A Russian soldier comforts a little girl as he escorts her across a snowy landscape. Time bomb left by German forces retreating from Naples, Italy, in 1943, blows up a Post office building . Views of damage to building and bodies of victims. American Military Police assisting a victim. American soldiers carrying an injured civilian on a litter. Scene shifts to British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, and U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, entering a hall in the Spiridonovka Palace, during the 1943 Moscow Conference in Russia. Close-up of the American, Soviet, and British flags on a table. View of many delegates seated around the table. Close-up of Molotov, Eden, and Hull signing conference document.