U.S. 306th Infantry of the 77th Division attacks enemy in Okinawa. Crew fires 30cal water cooled machine gun from hilltop. Crew eats atop tank. Soldiers fire 30 cal machine guns. Tank's gun is fired. Damaged trees on hill. (World War II period).
A Japanese standard barge under camouflage on a beach in Okinawa, Pacific Theater during World War II. Troops stand on the barge. African American troops sit at the base of a Japanese monument. They embark amphibious truck DUKW.
Wreckage on a German airfield in Nuremberg, Germany. Wrecked German equipment around the airfield. A building in background. Wreckage of a Luftwaffe aircraft on the airfield. A portrait of Adolf Hitler lying in the wreckage.
Japanese and Americans at the Omura Air Field in Nagasaki, Japan after the end of World War 2. U.S. Navy and Marine aviators and other personnel stand around a Navy PBY Catalina at the airfield. Several of the Americans stand with three Japanese soldiers. Japanese civilian and military persons seen under a tent erected nearby. Dark view of Japanese aircraft parked in a hangar. A Japanese officer and soldier are photographed from inside, as they approach the darkened hangar.
A B-25 bomber at Attu in Aleutian Island, Alaska. Propellers of the plane rotate as the engine runs. Mountains in the background.
Shown is tail section of a U.S. B-25 medium bomber, tail number 43-36154, assigned to the 11th Air Force, 77th Bombardment Squadron (Medium). Twin tails and tail gunner position and guns visible. Snowy slopes seen in background. In the first scene that shows members of the flight crew standing in front of number two engine, they are believed to be: starting back left (moving to the right behind the propeller): Armorer/Tail gunner: Samuel Ward Craig (Shelocta, PA), Pilot: Willard L. Castledine (Three Rivers, MA), Radioman/Waist Gunner: Hugh W. Wilson (Paducah, KY), (coming around to the front of the propeller on the right moving left), Navigator/Bombardier: Kemmer W. Schricker (Davenport, IA), Co-Pilot: Kenneth H. Wait (Rickreal, OR), Engineer/Turret Gunner: Roman F. Ales (Luling, TX) The crew members pull engine #2 through, with the propeller, to assure against hydraulic lock, before starting. (World War II period).