Five F-5Bs (reconnaissance variant of P-38 lightning ) from the U.S. Army Air Forces 28th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, are seen landing at their base on Okinawa, during World War 2.
Lieutenant Colonel Elliott Roosevelt standing in front of a hangar on a wet airfield ramp, with B-17s parked in distance, during World War 2. Formation of airmen behind Colonel Roosevelt, standing in front of a B-17 bomber. General Doolittle walking up to Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt and pinning Dinguished Flying Cross medal on him and then shaking hands. General Doolittle and Elliot Roosevelt saluting. Doolittle walks away. Distinguished Flying Cross seen on Colonel Roosevelt's blouse. He wears Navigator wings. (He was not a pilot.)
La Marsa airfield, Tunis, Tunisia, North Africa during World War 2. U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Elliott, Roosevelt, Commander, Northwest African Photographic Reconnaissance Wing (a multi-national Allied Command) walks across ramp and places an aerial reconnaissance camera inside a British Bristol Beaufighter Photo Reconnaissance aircraft, of No. 540 Squadron RAF Detachment. He speaks with photo reconnaissance technicians carrying cameras to and from the airplane. He converses with two U.S. Army Air Forces field grade officers, as they look at a map spread out on the airplane wing.
Ship sunk in Oran harbor in Algeria during World War 2. Sterns of transports. Transports at anchor. American troops disembarking and on docks beside troop transport ships. American troops in formation on parade grounds. General Patton and General Giraud with other Allied officers watching. American troops falling into line. The Roman Catholic St. Peter's Cathedral or Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Rabat in downtown Rabat, Morocco. General Giraud and General Patton placing wreath on soldier's grave honoring French and American dead. Grave with flowers.
U.S. Navy sailor, Bugler , blows call over PA (Public Address) system. This film, taken from the heavy cruiser USS Louisville, CA-28, shows a battle line of U.S. cruisers and battleships underway in the battle of Peleliu, Palau, in World War 2. The first ship is the heavy cruiser USS Portland, CA-33; the second ship is the battleship USS Idaho, BB-42; at time 01:06 the third ship in line is the battleship USS Mississippi, BB-41. The Portland and the Mississippi display camouflage paint.
U.S.Marines of 3rd 155mm Howitzer Battalion, Baker Battery, in operation during battle of Okinawa, during World War 2. (For this campaign, they have been assigned to the U.S. Army 419th Field Artillery Group.) Camouflage netting is stretched over gun position. Crew fires many rounds. The operation appears routine: shell placed, propellant powder placed, breech closed, piece fired, crew uses pole to swab barrel, and the process is repeated. The Marines are stripped to the waist as they work. They pause after a session of firing. Gunner wearing headphone speaks into telephone. Gunner, in a tent, cutting bag charges of propellant. He reties sacks containing correct amount and gives them to another gunner.
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