During World War 2, Group Adjutant reads 8th Bomber Command orders of the day, on July 7th, 1943. Members of the 351st Bomb Group stand in formation in front of B-17s during an award ceremony. The decorations, including Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross,and Soldiers Medal, are arranged on a table for presentation. The recipients are lined up at attention. Narrator points out Bombardier Stevens receiving the DFC and other airmen and their awards.
Seaside hotel converted to a Red Cross rest and recuperation center for U.S. servicemen stationed in England during World War 2. A sign reads: "Welcome to your American Red Cross Service Club." Uniformed man and woman Red Cross officials seen at the facility. U.S. Army airmen arriving at the resort in a jeep. Several airmen see Captain Clark Gable on the grounds and run over to see what's going on. He tells them photographers will follow them around for a day and they won't have to say a word. Airmen, accompanied by young women, riding on a coach pulled by team of horses. View of a huge seaside swimming pool filled with English patrons. Among them are seen several U.S. airmen using the slides and diving boards and having fun in the pool. The Allied rest and recreation center is the Palace Hotel, Birkdale, Lancashire and the pool appears to be Southport Lido.
United States troops battle German soldiers in Salerno, Italy during World War 2 invasion of Italy. U.S. soldiers advance along a street and fire at German positions. U.S. troops fire mortars. Smoke rises from shell explosions. Italian civilians cheer as U.S. troops enter Naples. Food and drinking water is distributed by U.S. troops to Italian citizens including women and children. Smoke rises from exploding German mines in Naples several days after liberation. A wounded civilian sitting at a sidewalk. Wounded soldiers and civilians are treated by U.S. medics. U.S. Army engineers walk through rubble from bombing in the Italian city. View of Combat Infantry Rifle Badge of the U.S. Army.
Armored fighting vehicles of the U.S. 6th Armored Division move up a road in Germany during World War 2. Vehicles including trucks, jeeps, M8 armored cars, half tracks and tanks advancing on the road. 15th armored regiment tanks in column. Large white tactical numbers synonymous with the 6th Armored Division displayed. Smoke rises from fire in the background. A T34 rocket launcher mounted on an M4 medium tank beside the road. A M4(105) tank of HQ company rounds a corner throwing up dust. A tank with a rocket launcher moves along the road. Jeeps loaded with medics move up with the armored spearhead (heading to their assembly area prior to the Rhine crossing the following day).
View of houses in an American residential neighborhood area in the suburbs, from low-flying airplane. Crowded street scene in a major city with black and white pedestrians walking on sidewalk in typical 1970s fashions. A public school No. 2. Yellow school buses carrying children. African American family with small children boarding a bus. A group of white people walking appearing to be a grandmother, her son, and three grandchildren. People enjoying a day in a park. African American woman standing near a large upright computer tape tape machine. She presses something on the machine to operate it. House with a "for sale" sign in the suburbs. A man opening the door of a 1969 or 1970 Ford Pinto car at a car sales dealership. Various report documents of the U.S. Census Bureau are displayed. Cattle being unloaded from a farmer's truck. A farmer cultivating a field, using a tractor. Views of State and Municipal Government buildings, including a view of the Justice Department in Washington DC, and including people entering and leaving the Compton, California City Hall building. Highway sign reading: "Leaving West Georgia Soil & Water Conservation District." Others, reading: Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Silver Spring Branch Office," and "Wakefield County Park, Fairfax County Park Authority," "District of Columbia, Storm Sewer Vicinity, 14th St. & Kentucky Ave. S.E," and "Harford County Metropolitan Commission, Water Transmission System." A late 1960s car approaching a toll booth on a highway. A policeman directing traffic. Several medical personnel in whites, walking on hospital grounds. A railroad worker. A teacher posting a notice on door, at a school, as school girls behind him try to read the posting. A steel mill with smoke rising from tall stacks. Cars parked outside of Lasalle College New Athletic Facilities construction sign. A Washington DC police car patrolling a city street. Cars parked bumper-to-bumper along a city street.
Activities of U.S. 1st Marine division in Okinawa, Japan on the L+2 Day during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. United States Marine Corps( USMC ) General Roy Stanley Geiger and USMC Lieutenant General Pedro Augusto Del Valle confer about advance showing map. A soldier with a rifle stands in the background.
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