The British 2nd Army advances on Tournai, Antwerp, and Ghent in Belgium. Animated map shows the advance in Belgium. Sign of France. The British 2nd Army rolls through Tournai, Belgium (September 3): Soldiers advance on Tournai. Army tanks and soldiers move over bridge and fire. Ghent citizens help wipe out final resistance. Large crowd gathers and allied troops on army tanks fire in city. The British 2nd Army fights in Antwerp on 4th September: German equipment burned and soldiers fire. Troops fight in streets. Nazi defenders run near railway tracks. (World War II period).
South Korean laborers in U.S. 2nd Signal CP (Command Post) site near Nakdong River, Korea during Korean War. South Korean laborers on side of hill. Laborers stand around open hole. Laborers dig on side of hill. Army tanks and other vehicles at U.S. 72nd Tank Battalion motor park. U.S. 2nd Infantry soldiers repair a tank motor. Pfc (Private First Class) Walter L. Brown cuts M/Sgt (Master Sergeant) John Logel's hair while others look on.
Marines of U.S. 2nd Marine Division moving toward the airfield on Betio, Tarawa atoll, during their amphibious assault against Japanese forces during World War 2. A Stuart M3 light tank driving rapidly at the edge of the field. A wounded marine is brought back in a jeep, under enemy fire. Back at the beachhead, a landing vehicle tracked (LVT) is seen towing several floating packages of supplies to the shore. Chaplain's assistants tend to U.S. marine dead lying on a beach. They remove on dog tag from each for registering while leaving the other for identification. Marine General Holland M.Smith, Commander of V Amphibious Corps, and Major General Julian C. Smith, Commander. 2nd Marine Division, are seen walking together and then consulting with Rear Admiral Harry W. Hill, Commander Amphibious Group Two, Fifth Amphibious Force. Marines using a bulldozer to dig Japanese defenders out of a pill box. This yields a half dozen Japanese prisoners, the first to be taken. Wounded American marines are given first aid and then seen being lowered in steel litters into landing craft and then being transferred to a transport ship, offshore.
U.S. Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force, VIII Fighter Command operations in Germany during World War II. 18 April 1944: 2nd Lieutenant JF Scott of the 4th Fighter Group 334th Squadron attacks ground targets. The aircraft in flight over fields. 2nd Lt. Scott strafes a German locomotive. Smoke rises due to the strafing. He attacks German aircraft at an airdrome.
2nd Armored Division demonstration in Altdorf, Germany. British flame-thrower tanks 'Churchill' and infantrymen of the 41st infantry regiment, 2nd Armored Division, ninth U.S. army in demonstration of attack technique against small villages. Tanks throw heavy concentration of flames against buildings and houses at fire. Infantrymen run toward the houses. Tanks go in field. (World War II period).
2nd Armored Division demonstration in Altdorf, Germany. British flame-thrower tanks 'Churchill' throw heavy concentration of flames against houses at fire. Infantrymen of the 41st infantry regiment, 2nd Armored Division, 9th U.S. Army runs towards houses. (World War II period).
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