Invasion of Guam in Pacific Theater during World War II. United States naval vessels underway at sea. Coast of Guam in the background. 5 inch shells explode on the coast and smoke rises.
Invasion of Guam in Pacific Theater during World War II. A Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) approaches the beach and fires 40 mm guns. 40 mm tracers strafe the beach. LCI moves very close to the shore and continues to strafe the coast with 40 mm guns. Explosions occur on the coast. United States Navy high speed transport APD dead in water as a landing craft moves away from it.
German troops advance on the Eastern Front during World War 2. Russians employ scorched earth policy . Oil tanks ablaze and dams and structures blown up. Germans lay siege to Stalingrad. A Soviet troops in urban combat in Stalingrad. A German soldier is shot and falls. Views of awful destruction. Animated map showing Leningrad and the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga on either side. Views of Leningrad in snow. Citizens bundled against the cold, walk near historic structures. Food being distributed. Soviet troops in defensive positions. Animated map shows outbreak of Soviet forces in pincer movement that surrounds the German 6th Army. Two Soviet armies meet as they close the pincer. German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendering to Soviet forces on 31 January 1943. Troops of the German 6th Army make their way through the snow as they surrender. Battlefield cemetery, with markers of German soldier's graves. Numerous Soviet citizens, victims of the fighting, seen lying in the snow, as relatives grieve. Scene shifts to the Pacific theater with view of Japanese bombers flying over an installation flying the Rising Sun flag. Scenes of the Pearl Harbor attack. American workers fill yard near a war plant during shift change. Defense industry workers in the plants. Liberty ships being launched. American forces in amphibious assaults. U.S. forces engaged in North Africa and on Pacific islands. American soldiers at battlefield gravesite. General Dwight D. Eisenhower with General Omar Bradley and Allied military leaders, look over a map of Europe, following the June 6th invasion in Normandy. Fields filled with Sherman tanks and other war materiel, in England. The wing of an American airplane in D-day stripes as it takes off. Views from cockpit of an American bomber striking targets on D-day. B-17 bombers in formation at high altitude, leaving condensation trails in the sky. Pilots in cockpit of an American bomber, as they drop bombs. Allied fighters in D-day stripes peeling off to attack. Gun camera views of fighters strafing German targets. Explosions and fires.
Us Army Air Forces B-29 Super Fortress of the 73rd Bomb Wing (Tail Code: "V Square 29") comes in for landing. Plane parks on the ramp. U.S. Brigadier General Emmett O'Donnell, Vice-Admiral John Hoover and Brigadier General Haywood Hansell study a map, leaning it against one of the plane's propellers. General O'Donnell walks over to converse with Major Robert Morgan, who is well-known as the pilot of the B-17 "Memphis Belle" that flew 25 missions over Germany in the European theater. He now flies B-29s with the 73rd Wing in the Pacific theater. (World War II period).
United States Navy loads war materiel aboard an LST,in the Pacific theater, during World War II. A four wheeled trailer, artillery and equipment hoisted by a crane aboard an LST(Landing Ship Tank) at the loading dock. Artillery gun raised at the dock as men assist. A soldier stands on a ship and watches the dock area. An operator in the control room of a ship. Other ships and group of marines on the deck.
American entertainers in Bougainville, Solomon Islands during World War II. Soldiers seated in front of a stage. Comedian Bob Hope walks onto the stage and acts as the Master of the Ceremony. He talks about U.S. campaign in the Pacific Theater. He cracks jokes which make the audience laugh. Audio is very faint but can be barely heard.