U.S. Army Air Force attacks enemy positions in China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. The target of the attacks are the railway tracks, roads and bridges built over a river which are the supply lines of the enemy forces. Bombs drop towards the target leaving a smoke trail behind them.
Views of damage in the city of Wiesbaden in Germany during end of World War II. Civilians walking on a street. Damaged buildings due to bombing. Statue of Kaiser Friedrich III seen between demolished buildings. Ruins and debris of buildings destroyed by aerial bombardment in World War 2. Sign over an archway reads "Kaiser Frederich Platz."
Newsreel titled 'Army Day in Coblenz'. General Patton inspects Allied military troops in Koblenz, Germany. General attends a ceremony of raising the first American Flag on the German soil, at a castle on the Western front of World War II. General Bradley addresses soldiers. The General, military officials and soldiers salute the U.S. National Flag.
U.S. Airmen killed by Nazis in France during World War II. Dead bodies of U.S. Airmen, all shot in head lying on the road to Gambsheim, in France. Pocket diaries and Holy Cross on an airman's dead body. White cloth with spots of blood covers the face of dead. Dead bodies scattered, all over a ground.
U.S. Marine infantry in defensive positions along a sand berm on Iwo Jima, during World War 2. Marine speaking on SCR-300 portable radio, and another looking through binoculars. In distance, marines are seen moving about on a broad barren stretch of land. They advance in groups to take up positions in hilly terrain. A Japanese shell bursts, followed by several more.
President Harry S. Truman, in shirt and tie, without his jacket, and wearing a sailors hat, strolls along the deck of the heavy cruiser, USS Augusta(CA-31) as she makes way in the Atlantic headed toward Europe, following the end of World War 2. A member of his party points out something of interest on the deck. The Augusta test firing her 5 inch guns. Turret 3 main battery 8 inch 55 caliber guns fire one salvo. Views of bow waves and ship's wake astern, as the Augusta and accompanying ships proceed at 27 knots.
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