Operation Shingle in Anzio Italy during World War II. Allied soldiers lay wire matting on a beach. Vehicles and tanks drive off a pontoon dock onto the beach. Troops on a tank. The tank being unloaded. Troops and equipment unloaded from a landing craft. The soldiers carry guns on their back. The vehicles are drive off the pontoon dock. Insignia of the United States on the vehicles. A jeep towed with a truck and taken ashore. A soldier eats food. Allied soldiers in a amphibious truck DUKW . Troops in DUKW enter the waters from a Landing Ship Tank and head for the shore.
Operation Shingle in Anzio Italy during World War II (Battle of Anzio). Allied troops unload ammunition and stack it near a wall on a beach. Buildings in the background. A Landing Ship Tank on the beach. Trucks tow artillery off a pontoon dock into the water. The troops on the trucks. The artillery taken ashore.
United States Army Air Corps Keystone LB-5A drop bombs on a concrete bridge over the Pee Dee River in Albemarle, North Carolina. A bomb strikes a concrete bridge. Water splashes due to the bombing. LB-5A bomber aircraft drop bombs. An explosion on the bridge. Smoke rises due to the explosion. A hit on the bridge. The wrecked bridge.
First Pursuit Group tests winter equipment during maneuvers in Oscoda, Michigan. A modified United States Army Air Corps fighter aircraft Curtiss P-1 Hawk stationary on snow. Skis on the aircraft. The aircraft being warmed up prior to a take off. Crew turns the propeller of the aircraft. The propeller turns. A pilot in a cockpit. A row of stationary P-1 Hawks equipped with skis on a flight line. A tower building in the background. Ground personnel turn the aircraft around. Snow blown due to the propeller blast. A P-1 Hawk taxis on the snow field and takes off.
Sergeant R. L. Bose demonstrates reliability of Air Service parachutes and disproves a theory that a man falling 500 feet or more loses consciousness. Civilians and military spectators watch the demonstration. Views from the airplane as Sergeant Bose free-falls from 3000 feet, delaying his chute opening until 1500 feet. Some of his free fall in slow motion. He makes a routine parachute landing. Spectators and an ambulance come as a precaution to his landing point.
Parachutist jump and set a new record at Chanute Field in Illinois, United States. Ten parachutists board a transport aircraft. A close up of heads and faces of the men framed in the circular doorway of the aircraft. The C-3 transport aircraft in flight. The parachutists jump one after the other. They descend towards the earth. Eight parachutes descend. The airmen who made to jump.
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