American entertainers in Hawaii, United States during World War II. Comedian Bob hope stands with a U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator aircraft in the background. Patty Thomas and singer Frances Langford smile and wave. Bob Hope shakes hands with island commander General Tenney. Italian-American comedian Jerry Colonna smiles. USAAF C-47 Skytrain aircraft in the background. A large number of people gathered around the entertainers. Enlisted men follow the entertainers. Bob Hope gets into a staff car. Frances Langford and Patti Thomas seated in a car as it pulls away.
American entertainers from USO in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands during World War 2. Singer Frances Langford walks on a stage. Bob Hope hands over a microphone to Langford. She sings as music director Tony Romano plays a guitar in the background. Bob Hope and Frances Langford at the microphone. Patty Thomas dances on the stage to entertain U.S. soldiers. Comedian Jerry Colonna speaks into a microphone.
Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. An Allied soldier wearing a life jacket sleeps aboard a ship underway in the English Channel on their way to Normandy, France. An LST (Landing Ship Tanks) underway and a man in the foreground. Barrage balloons fly overhead. A soldier relaxes on the deck of an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry). A British LCT (Landing Craft Tank) underway and sailors in the foreground. Two soldiers relax on the deck of a ship as one of them smokes a cigarette. A column of British LCTs underway as the American flag flies in the foreground.
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe General Dwight D. Eisenhower inspects a Ninth Air Force Base in England during World War II. General Eisenhower salutes to men. United States soldiers look outside from a window to watch General Eisenhower’s arrival. Brick layers stop working on a wall to salute to General Eisenhower. General Eisenhower speaks with the M-26 Marauder crewmen. General Eisenhower laughing. General Eisenhower sits on in the cockpit of a fighter plane and fires its machine guns. Crowds of crewmen watch Eisenhower inspecting aircraft. An the airfield control tower, General Eisenhower and other officials watch the take-off of B-26 Marauders for a combat mission. B-26 Marauder bombers take off from the airfield. B-26 Marauder bombers form a formation in flight. B-26 Marauder bombers dodge anti-aircraft fire. Bomber with broken windshield window due to anti-aircraft fire damage. Bombs are dropped above a Nazi aerodrome in France. Aerial view of the Nazi aerodrome, railway switch yard bombings in Normandy. B-26 Marauder bombers heading back to England after bombing important military infrastructure in Normandy. A B-26 bomber lands on the runway. British Royal Air Force (RAF) Avro Lancaster bombers take-off from the Ninth Air Force Base at night. Lancaster bombersdrop bombs over German ammunitions dump and stores depot in France at night. Nighttime view of explosions on the ground.
A landing craft labeled "US 51" is seen from its starboard side, with cargo in tow and an American flag flying from its mast. There are also more identical ships in the background, all sailing in the English Channel towards Normandy, France in advance of the D-Day invasion of France. The camera cuts to another direction, which shows many more of the same ship, some also with cargo in tow. In this shot, there is land off in the distance, and a few barrage balloons in the sky above the LCIs. The final shot is of a long convoy of ships far off in the distance.
A map of Western Europe showing the location of Strasbourg, France in World War II. The Raven Bridge or Pont du Corbeau over the Ill River in Strasbourg. A destroyed apartment with gaping hole in roof from damage. Two Allied soldiers read a Nazi German wall graffiti “Angloamerikaner und Bolschewisten bringen Chaos, Not, Hunger, Anarchie, Arbeitslosigkeit. Der Nationalsozialismus kampft bis zum Endsieg fur Freiheit und Brot unseres Volkes!” (“Anglo-Americans and Bolsheviks bring chaos, misery, hunger, anarchy, unemployment. National Socialism will fight to the final victory for the freedom and bread of our people!” in English). An M4 Sherman tank moves on the street, passing by the Oberlin Buchhandlung or Oberlin Bookstore (19 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, 67000 Strasbourg, France) which is presently an LCL Bank building. Soldiers on top of the tank are seen. French troops and United States Army 15th Corp soldiers in Strasbourg after liberation from German forces. Slight damage on Strasbourg Cathedral (Pl. de la Cathédrale, 67000 Strasbourg, France). The Rose window and damaged clock of the Strasbourg Cathedral. Civilian German men, women, and children carry their belongings as they enter temporary prisoner of war stockade at Lycée Fustel-de-Coulanges ( 1 Pl. du Château, 67061 Strasbourg, France. )