82nd Airborne Division soldiers advance along a corridor beside the wall of an elevated cemetery in Saint- Marcouf, France during World War 2. They rest beside a wall. Local residents come their way. Rubble of destroyed buildings in the background. The French residents greet and converse with the American soldiers. Two Frenchmen point in a direction up and away. Remains of bombed out rural buildings. Soldier seen near a religious statue that still stands in rubble at front of a destroyed house. As the American troops proceed, they pass a sign reading, "Saint-Marcouf." A bombed out building. A triangular sign reading,"Touring-Club de France," with "Dunlop" written below it. View, from beside a wheeled cart, of troopers resting, in front of a wall in the relatively unscathed town center of Saint-Marcouf. 82nd Airborne patch clearly seen on left shoulder of some troopers. American trooper stooped down to speak with small French boy and girl in front of a house in town. Closeup of the little girl. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
U.S. troops in Okinawa. U.S. 24th Army Corps in Southern Okinawa Front. Troops move along road. Troops along pathway in fields. U.S. artillery shells enemy positions on hills. American plane overhead makes bombing run. U.S. 382nd Infantry Regiment fighting at Table Top Ridge. Artillery fires enemy positions on side of hill. Japanese fortifications on hillside are shelled by artillery. Medics carrying wounded across field. Wounded man transferred on weasel. U.S. 381st Infantry Regiment supported by tanks fighting in Kakzu Ridge. Tanks fire at enemy positions on hills in the background. U.S. troops rushing toward deep fortified cave on hillside. Japanese coming out of cave. Flamethrower firing flames on hillside Japanese caves. Troops of 382nd Infantry, 96th Division advance up hill and place bombs in Japanese caves clearing pillboxes. Explosion in cave. (World War II; WWII;World War 2; WW2)
U.S. airborne troops take Cheneaux town in Belgium during World War II. Abandoned German 105mm howitzer, trucks, Sdkfz.10/5 SP Flak and Sdkfz.251/9 Stummel halftracks. Dead German soldier lying on a muddy street. Troops of 504th Parachute Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division in a village as they speak with a chaplain. Soldier speaks into a walkie-talkie. Troops move on a road. U.S. 2nd Battalion soldiers on muddy road speak to Chaplain and hold short services just before moving up to relieve 1st Battalion soldiers.
A front line aid station of the U.S. Army Japanese-American 2nd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Belmont, France during World War II, while engaging to rescue the Lost Battalion in the Vosges Mountains. Medics treat wounded soldiers. One soldier is treated for a hand wound, and another for a shoulder wound.
U.S. troops load supplies on a U.S. Army helicopter at Phu Bai fire base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army UH-1D Iroquois helicopter takes off from a resupply chopper pad. Two Vietnamese boys carrying jugs of water to the chopper pad. Supply boxes stacked at the chopper pad. Words on boxes : Meal Combat Individual. A UH-1D Iroquois lands on a chopper pad. Rotor blades of the helicopter turn. Soldiers U.S. 82nd Field Artillery Regiment load supplies into the UH-1D helicopter.
Part 1 of 4 of film "Wings for this Man", also known as "Army Air Forces special film project 151" (narrated by Ronald Reagan) about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of African American pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps. They comprised the 332nd Fighter Group (nicknamed the Red Tails, because of distinctive red painted tails of their aircraft). They are see engaging a Luftwaffe formation of bombers and fighter escorts over Italy during World War 2. P-47 Thunderbolt fighters, of the 322nd Fighter Group, take off from an airfield and head out on morning patrol. They engage a formation of Heinkel He 111 bombers escorted by Me109 fighters. Gun camera footage is seen of the P-47s firing at German Me109s. Several are shot down. German pilot is seen parachuting from one. Afterwards, pilots of 332nd Fighter Group share some of their combat experiences. Views of the kinds of places and circumstances in civilian life from which pilots of the 332nd were drawn. Views of transition from civilian life to the military, including changing into uniforms and boarding a troop train in the snow. View from side of black locomotive and train moving at high speed with smoke pouring out. Montage of locomotive train images.
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