View of the Navy Department building, also known as the Main Navy and Munition Buildings (now demolished and turned into Constitution Gardens. Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States). Sign says “Bureau of Ships”. Rear Admiral Edward L. Cochrane speaks about the United States Navy’s shipbuilding and maintenance program during World War 2 and great needs for steel. To underscore his point, he notes that, "A single salvo of the main battery guns of such a ship as the South Dakota, for example, will take 10 tons of finished steel." He goes on to say, “Our job in the Navy until the war is over is using steel to build and to fight. We must continue to rely on the Homefront efforts to collect the big tonnage of heavy industrial scrap which is needed to make a fine quality steel in huge quantities which we need in the Navy” concludes Rear Admiral Edward L. Cochrane.
Front pages of various American newspapers such as the New York World Telegram and Journal American reporting World War 2 related news with headlines such as “INVASION FLEETS AT STATIONS”, “INVASION “IMMINENT”! FLEET SET FOR ACTION” “ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL MAP INVASION STRATEGY”, and “INVASION THRUST AT EUROPE EXPECTED HOURLY IN LONDON”. United States and United Kingdom senior military officers gather for a meeting. Two officials read a report together.
Map of Western Europe showing possible landing spots of the Allied forces from London. Allied invasion of Sicily during World War 2. Military armored vehicles and artillery are boarding on ships (LSTs) heading for Sicily. Barrage balloons over ships. Tanks and more vehicles are loaded to ships. A tank board a ship. Allied soldiers boarding for ships heading to Sicily. A ship departs. Trucks on deck. Allied ships in heavy seas. Gun turrets on battleship. Destroyer USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) in heavy seas. A United States military official points on a map to sailors. A radioman speaks through a microphone. Naval artillery fire. Explosion from naval artillery seen hitting land. A huge explosion on land.
German soldiers firing artillery at Allied and United States invasion forces, probably during the Allied invasion of Sicily in World War 2. German soldier uses binoculars. A group of German soldiers fires a Howitzer field artillery at Allied forces. Howitzer turrets fire shells. Allied ships in the Mediterranean Sea exchange fire with Italian and Nazi German soldiers. A group of Landing Craft Assault (LCA) carries Allied soldiers toward Sicily. United States soldiers on board an Landing Craft Assault (LCA). United States soldiers and military equipment land in Sicily from Landing Craft Assault (LCA).
Allied forces firing artillery at Germans during World War 2, in Sicily. American soldiers firing artillery on a beachhead. Artillery piece hits a field. Artillery under a camouflage net fires at Germans in a forest. A piece of roof falls down after getting hit by artillery. American soldiers fires with artillery. Two American soldiers in prone position on a field.
American soldiers drive a tracked vehicle to transport an artillery piece into a European city in World War 2. A United States Army tank rolls through the countryside. United States soldiers load a stretcher with patient on an ambulance. Medics comforting injured soldiers. United States soldiers put supplies on a pack horse. American soldier leads a pack horse in rugged terrain. Allied trucks drive through rough, rocky terrain. Abandoned car remains on the roadside as military trucks drive on the road. Soldier drives a motorcycle beside smoking vehicle wreckage. A military truck wreckage on fire. A military vehicle wreck on fire and covered with thick smoke. A dead soldier lying beside wreckage. Various battlefield wreckage of vehicles and field guns. Stranded armored vehicles, battlefield wreckage and other mechanical debris in beachhead. Narrator refers to location, but intelligible. A ship on fire and covered with smoke. Fire inside remains of ship. Various stranded tanks and ships wreckage after a beachhead battle. Two British “Brodie” helmets washed up by waves on the shore. A damaged ship with heavy smoke. A ship listing after sustaining damage. A submerged ship with only the mast and funnel showing.
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