Japanese pilots run to their aircraft before a mission to Hong Kong, a British Crown Colony, during the Battle of Hong Kong in World War II. Aerial view of Hong Kong. Smoke rises from bombing. Japanese crew loads and fires old type artillery piece. Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) troops marches into the New Territories and Kowloon peninsula. Captured British soldiers, including Sikh Indian troops, are marched to the compound by Japanese soldiers. Japanese soldiers drive a tracked truck along Tai Po Road. Crowds on the streets of Kowloon after Japanese occupation. Japanese soldiers carry huge banner that reads 'Peace Mission'. Japanese troops in Japanese Navy ships sailing to Hong Kong. Naval artillery and bombers bombards Hong Kong Island. British prisoners of war in Hong Kong Island after Japanese capture. A British prisoner of war drinks from a can. Japanese military officials in Hong Kong. Japanese troops march into Victoria and streets of Hong Kong Island.
U.S. Army officers review French troops, in tropical uniforms, Cayenne, French Guiana during World War II. Bands followed by armed troops with their bayonets raised high march past the officers. The troops salute the officers. American flags waved in the parade. Large crowd gathered along the street.
Large numbers of U.S. Army jeeps driven on a field in United States during World War II. Jeeps tow 37-mm anti-tank guns. The jeep moves along a jungle road during maneuvers. Jeeps move over crash barriers and cross rivers during the maneuvers. Motorcyclists and infantry units dash up a river bank. Infantry wade through a river under a smoke screen.
Republic of China First Lady Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling) addresses army personnel and pilots at an award ceremony. Colonel James H. Doolittle and pilots from the carrier Hornet who bombed Tokyo decorated by General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. (World War II period).
Adolf Hitler addresses a large crowd in Germany. An animated map of Europe as it was in 1942 in World War II. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in conversation. Anthony Eden and Maxin Litvionf, Russian diplomat at a conference. Close up of sign "10 Downing Street". Neville Chamberlain stands in front of the Prime Minister's residence house and enters. Adolf Hitler reviews marching German troops.
Shows large numbers of war planes in the skies over Moscow, Russia during a military strength demonstration for Soviet leadership. Tupolev TB-3 transports and bombers among the aircraft (civilian designation ANT-6). The TB-3 were the world's first cantilever wing, four engine heavy bombers. They had corrugated skin covering. Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov watch the skies during a review in World War II. Russian planes drop bombs on fields. Bombs explode on the fields. Russian paratroopers climb out onto the wing of Tupolev TB-3 aircraft in flight. Troops on wings of the TB-3 aircraft in mid air. Paratroopers slide off from the wings and are airborne, opening parachutes.
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