Activities of RAF (Royal Air Force), air arm of the British Armed Forces in England. RAF (Royal Air Force) pilot and crew put on flight clothing and gear while standing in front of a parked bomber aircraft on a sunny day. One of the crew smokes a cigarette. The British crew put on flight overalls and other gear before a bombing mission in World War II.
Ambulances in front of a military hospital. A nurse working with wounded soldiers in a hospital ward. View of wounded but now recovered U.S. Army Air Force soldiers punching a time clock to work at a bomb factory in Denver, Colorado. View of the qquipment yard outside the Colorado Building Supply Company or "COBUSCO". The soldiers and airmen serve as war production workers for 6 hours a day while their recovery continues. Workers work on bomb shell assembly in the arms factory. Some use welding equipment. View of completed bombs on assembly lines. Stacks of completed bombs being inspected before shipment.
U.S. Army Air Force B-24s bombing targets in Japanese-held areas of Indochina, during the Second World War. View of U.S. Army Air Force B-24 from waist gun position of another B-24. View from B-24 (below 10,000 feet) over an airfield. Waist gunner poses, without oxygen mask, at his machine gun (not firing). View from 17,500 feet as B-24s bomb a supply depot in Hanoi. Clouds of smoke rise from numerous bomb explosions. B-24s on mission to bomb Haiphong, Indochina. Aerial view of B-24 named "80 Days," with two dice (a Five and a Three) pictured under its name. Bombs falling from B-24s as they bomb smelting and foundry plants from 17,000 feet over port city of Haiphong. Smoke rising from targets.
British and Indian combat troops recapture Mandalay, Burma after three years of Japanese occupation during World War II. Blast in the city. A series of blasts occur in the city. A Burmese temple in the fore ground. Troop in prone position fire rifle. Troops fire artillery. Military tanks advance in the city, temple in the background. The capture of Fort Dufferin (present day Mandalay Palace) from the Japanese. Army trucks advance in the city. Troops advance in a jeep. Japanese prisoners captured and brought to British camp. Burmese temple with a statue of an elephant and a dragon.
German troops advance against Russians on the Belorussian Front in Soviet Union during World War II. German troops advance on Brest Litovsk (in present day Belarus). German troops in small boats. Troops loaded on a tank as they march forward. A ship sails from a distance. Smoke arises from artillery fire. Troops on tanks march forward in meadow. A German soldier with a bicycle. A destroyed piece of artillery. German artillery in front of a building. Men running. German forces overrun Soviet soldiers and take prisoners. German soldier fires a machine gun. Troops sailing in a boat. Burning tanks in a village. German troops enter a Russian village and destroy a railroad station, homes and kill horses. Smoke rises due to an explosion. Troops advance on foot along with Russian prisoners. Soldiers in a boat and on tanks. Russian prisoners hold their hands up after surrender.
Germans advance against Russian troops on the Belorussian Front (Belarus) in Soviet Union during World War II. A map indicates Grodno (Belarus) and Kaunas (present day Lithuania) as German destinations during Operation Barbarossa. German soldiers fire a mortar in the Soviet Union. Mortar shell explodes nearby. German soldiers firing machine guns and advance in field. They march forward to attack Grodno. Soldiers in prone position firing with guns. Smoke rises due to fire. They march forward. A map shows Kaunas as their next destination. Troops on top of a tank as one of the soldiers inspects a shell. Damaged and destroyed Soviet military equipment in Kaunas vicinity. Many Soviet aircraft are seen with damage. Captured Soviet prisoners march on a road. German soldier inspects various scraps from destroyed vehicles. Tank and truck wreckage scattered over a field. Remains of a tracked vehicle. A German soldier gets off from a tank.
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