Two escaped U.S. Army Air Force aircraft pilots, shot down in enemy territory in December 1943 during World War II, speak with U.S. officers after their rescue in 1944. Both pilots are dressed in civilian clothing, and one wears improvised shoes. (Footage shot around the time of the Battle of Cisterna).
U.S. soldiers sit around on supplies and handle the same. Tractor and trailer comes off LCT (Landing Craft Tank) in the background. Beach-man talks to his aid above beach. Supplies stacked on beach. Tractor parked in the foreground. Soldiers carrying more supplies to supply pile. Signal man at communication center. Soldiers carry large crate with poles. Caterpillar tractor-trailer towed upstream. Soldiers around a tent on beach. (World War II period).
Caterpillar tractor tows sleds loaded with supplies off LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized). LCT (Landing Craft, Tank) in the background. Caterpillar tractor tows sled loaded with oil drums. LSI (Landing Craft, Infantry) at anchor. (World War II period)
United States Navy warship fires salvos from its big guns and explosion occurs during the World War II invasion of Attu in Aleutian Island, Alaska.
Supplies are carried by trains and trucks in Alaska. Ships unload food and supplies at Skagway, Alaska. Smoke rises from smokestack of the ship. Men unload the supplies. Train of the Yukon railroad, under operation by the United States Army is loaded with food and supplies for troops guarding arctic outposts in World War II. A Yukon Railroad train moves along railroad tracks. A sign reads "Whitehorse, Yukon" at the Whitehorse stop in Yukon territory of Canada. Truck on the new Alaska Truck Highway passes by with freight it received at Whitehorse.
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. Herman's crew whales and processes its catch. A whale alongside the ship. It emerges from the water and dives back. A second boat comes from the ship to assist the first one. The boats return to the ship after whaling. A crew member looks at the catch. They hoist the whale boats up to the ship. Men scrape and wash whale bone (baleen). Captain Pedersen examines a whale bone. The whaler near an ice sheet. A man with a can. Ropes from the ship.
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