Start of film shows American Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) members arriving at a pier in England during World War 2. They are in uniform, wear steel helmets, and carry their personal gear, including bedrolls. As a group they walk to a railway station and enter it. View of American soldiers, inside, walking along the station platform, where they line up in formations. Next, several WAAC members are seen boarding a passenger train. Several Army officers stand and converse with a WAAC First officer, wearing captain's bars. She wears a "Hobby" cap with insignia of the Rising Eagle on it. American soldiers are seen next, also boarding the passenger train. A short man pours something from a pitcher, into soldiers' mess cups. A woman fills soldiers' mess cups from a large container. Sunlight shines on two American soldiers standing in the open doorway of the train. Closeup of them. View of virtually empty train platform as the train pulls away from the station.
American troops in Britain during World War 2. An Army Sergeant announces as he speaks into a microphone. Soldiers get off their trucks and proceed to their tents. Some are seen at a tent where they are issued blankets. The camp is paved with walkways of pierced steel planking (Marsden matting). A sign outside a tent reads ' RCRP camp G' American soldiers walk past the tents. Other signs outside the tents read ' Operating room' , 'Dentist' . Ammunition piled up under cover in the camp area. United States military trucks as mechanics work on them. Soldiers stringing wire on a telephone pole along a road. A soldier speaks over a field phone. He wears Army Service Forces patch on his sleeve. Soldiers put together an informal band, play musical instruments like the accordion, and sing.
United States Army troops aboard a ship underway in a convoy headed for England, in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Destroyers and other ships are part of the convoy. Troops in hammocks aboard ship. They play card game, sing and play musical instruments on board ship. Soldiers read, write a letter, stitch an insignia, sleep. Coast Guard radio operator sending morse code message with a key. Men load cartridges into ammunition belts on board ship. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
United States Coast Guard Troop Transport ships arrive in England during World War II. Troops are all on deck aboard the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) watching as she approaches the coast of England in February , 1944.Views of soldiers watching from various places on the ship. The last few seconds of the films also shows similar views of troops arriving on the USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13) (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
American troops and Coast Guard ship's crew practice loading vehicles and personnel aboard Coast Guard Troop Transport ship in England, during World War II. A United States Army jeep being hoisted aboard a U.S. Coast Guard Troop Transport ship at a port in England in March, 1944. Men load jeep onto the ship. Boxes in a net being hoisted aboard ship. An officer directs the loading operations. United States Army troops board the ship. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
Opening scene shows bow of the American transport ship, USS Bayfield (APA-33), anchored in a bay in Scottish waters. United States Coast Guard crews, from the Bayfield, practice maneuvering their Higgins boats landing craft in the bay. Snow can be seen on the surrounding terrain. Various landing craft speed about in the bay. A Coast Guardsman seated at the edge of a landing craft. A crewman on one craft is signaling by hand. His craft display a three striped pennant.(World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
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