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Royal New Zealand Air Force P-40 aircraft operating on Torokina Air Strip, Bougainville in World War II
Allied flight operations at Torokina Air Strip on Bougainville Island during World War 2. Pilots of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) gather near a tent on Bougainville, Papua, New Guinea, during World War 2. Two drink cups of water from a canvas Lister bag. View of control tower silhouetted against light sky background with tents clustered on ground below. A P-40, with RNZAF markings, taxis past the camera and is then seen on the active runway. A ground crewman waves on three more RNZAF P-40s as they taxi.
United States Marine Corps 1st Marine Division soldiers march on a dirt road in Talasea,New Britain during World War II.
United States Marines of 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, invade Talasea, New Britain, Papua New Guinea in World War 2. A Marine digs on the ground with a knife and uncovers a Japanese Model 93 ("Tape-measure") mine. He picks it up and scrapes mud from around the cover of the detonator. Marines walk on dirt road carrying equipment. Marines firing M2 60mm light mortar. Long line of heavily laden Marines slogging along jungle path.
Newsreel 'Allied forces in action on India-Burma fronts" shows airfield construction and Allied officers
Natives learn to build airstrips in India for Allied Forces. Indians using primitive tools. Indian women are also seen working to build air field runways and landing strips. A U.S. Army B-25 bomber aircraft lands and taxis. General MacArthur, General Krueger and General Rupertus inspect newly won positions in New Guinea. In Burma British and Indian troops advance. Explosions seen as British Army forces fire mortars. (World War II period).
Preparations for allied invasion of Normandy France during World War II.
'Normandy: Air borne invasion of fortress Europe ' Allied invasion of Normandy. Lieutenant General William S Knudsen introduces the film to be presented, expressing thanks to makers of the glider aircraft used in the invasion, who are the intended audience of the film. Field Order no1, 9th Troop commander Carrier. A man puts a Top Secret seal on the order. The Captain of United States 82nd Air Borne Division briefs men about the terrain with the help of a mosaic. A map of Europe shows principle cities of the continent. Map and narrator describe German Atlantic Wall coastal defenses on European continent. A giant concrete coastal gun emplacement. A large German railroad coastal gun moved out of a concrete shelter. Various concrete structures, sandbag structures of coastal guns. A concrete base gun turret revolves. Huge coastal guns protrude from concrete gun emplacements. Huge steel and concrete tank barriers stretched across. Large concrete and steel structures built along the coast to prevent assault craft from landing. Combined Chiefs of staff of the United Nations at a meeting. George Marshall and Henry Arnold at the head of the table during the meeting. A map shows invasion area near Le Harve. Troop Carrier units departing for Allied invasion on Sicily, Africa on 10 July, 1943. The United States C-47 aircraft take off towing gliders from an airfield in Africa. Troops transported from British 1st Air Borne division and United States 82nd Air Borne division. Dust rises as aircraft take off from a desert field. Demolished gliders on field and beside water. Multiple views of demolished gliders. C-47 in flight and paratroopers jump from the plane in New Guinea. Instructor trains paratroopers in United States. Discussion and demonstration of improvements in glider equipment and usage after Sicily Invasion and prior to D-Day Normandy invasion. Two men attach link nose chain to glider. Parachute extended and held open by men. Pilot of a glider talks to the pilot of the plane towing the glider over intercom.
Views of U.S. Forces in the Pacific and European theaters of operation during World War II
U.S. Troops in the Solomon Islands during World War II, load munitions and supplies aboard landing craft to be carried to the troopship, USS Frederick Funston (APA-89), sitting offshore. The equipment and troops are bound for Bougainville, New Guinea, to reinforce marines there. Next, the troops themselves, in full battle gear, enter Higgins boats, to be ferried to the troopship. Closeup of troops boarding one of the landing craft. View from a landing craft heading to the Frederick Funston, seen ahead. View from the Higgins boat approaching the troopship, and then of troops climbing aboard via a rope net. Closeup of soldiers climbing the net. Change of scene shows U.S. Field Artillery unit changing position on New Georgia. They employ caterpillar tractors to move the guns. One is seen bogging down in the soft earth, so another tractor assists by pushing on the gun (possibly damaging its barrel). After arriving at the new position, they are ordered to move again, because of movements of the Japanese forces. This time, the troops pitch in and use sheer manpower to move a howitzer. Scene shifts again, to Italy, where U.S. troops attempt to ford a river on the road from, Benevento, to Caserta, after German forces destroyed all bridges along it. A truck is seen successfully crossing after combat engineers created a path for it. Trucks and jeeps move through muddy paths. The last image shows a jeep equipped with a tall bumper-mounted wire cutter.
An American flying boat PBY Catalina carrying soldiers and correspondents in flight to Mindanao,Philippines.
The soldiers and war correspondents being transferred aboard the U.S. Navy PBY Catalina of the 2d Emergency Rescue Squadron from Motorai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines during World War II. The PBY Catalina in flight. The coastline of an island in view. Inhabited areas in the island and rocky terrain in the island. The aircraft in flight in the sky. Two aircraft in flight. A vessel in the ocean. Few vessels in the ocean water.