Reconstruction of an airstrip. A plane lands on the airstrip.1st Cavalry Division moves to Manus. A unit of 1st Marine Division moves from Gloucester to Talasea which is only 160 miles from Rabaul. Japanese 17th Army surrenders. Animated map shows 163rd and the 127th Infantry to land at Tadji Airstrip. The 24th and 41st division to land in Hollandia to capture three airstrips Hollandia, Sentani and Cyclops. Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur study maps. The 5th Air Force planes drop bombs on Hollandia. A Japanese convoy is strafed and bombed. Wrecked Japanese planes. Australian infantry advances through New Guinea jungles. Soldiers addressed and explained the importance of team work. 1st Cavalry troops briefed. A General addresses the soldiers through a microphone. (World War II period).
Allied troops attack Japanese bases in New Guinea. Australian jungle troops cover difficult to climb terrain, hauling supplies by manpower alone. New Zealand troops in snow covered Italian Alps. The Army troops from New Zealand wear white camouflage coverings in the snow terrain, and advance up mountain terrain. Aerial view of beach area at Anzio, Italy. U.S. Army forces escort capture German troops who continue to surrender. Some include Nazi troops from the Hermann Goering division. view of German Prisoners of War as they receive medical care for minor and major injuries. American nurses arrive in Anzio and tend the wounded. A German aircraft attacking Allies in Anzio is shot down and the German warplane plunges toward the ground trailing smoke. View of U.S. Army personnel examining the wreckage of a German plane that crash landed in Italy.
General Douglas MacArthur speaks to Allied paratroopers before their landing in Markham Valley, New Guinea. Paratroopers briefed with the help of a map. Paratroopers look at Tommy guns and other weapons. Equipment loaded onto a truck. Paratroopers loaded onto a military truck move to the airbase. Planes lined up at the base. Men put on their combat gear and board the aircraft. Aircraft in flight. Paratroopers jump and descend at Markham Valley. Planes in flight as parachutes descend during the first mass parachute jump in Southwestern Pacific. (World War II period).
A U.S. Navy PBY transfers soldiers from Motorai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines. Soldiers get into a truck. Few American soldiers seated in a truck. The soldier's belongings being transferred to the truck. Two men carry boxes. Few soldiers outside a tent. PBY Catalina (Patrol Bomber Consolidated Aircraft), an American flying boat of the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron on an airstrip. Other aircraft in view. Two trucks parked beside the flying boat. Men transport material from the trucks onto the aircraft. Soldiers board the aircraft with their belongings.
The American campaign against the Japanese in the South West Pacific during World War II. United States troops loaded in landing crafts as they head towards New Guinea beach. The landing crafts hit the beach and the soldiers unload from the crafts and land. A number of landing crafts head towards the beach. The crafts at the beach as the soldiers land.
The American campaign against the Japanese in the South West Pacific during World War II. Landing Craft Infantry and Landing Ship Tanks move towards the beach of New Guinea. Soldiers disembark from the vessels. Allied Supreme Commander for the Pacific General Douglas MacArthur and other officers aboard a ship as they look at a map and discuss. An officer looks through binoculars towards the coast.