Italian film depicting Japanese forces advancing through jungles and mountains in China, during World War II (1943) in the Second Sino-Japanese war. Japanese troops march along the sides of a dirt road. They pass a large group of indigenous Chinese, who wave their arms in Obeisance. As they enter mountainous territory, the Japanese troops employ pack animals to assist them. Views of Japanese soldiers scrambling cautiously up a hillside and then of firing machine guns, mortars, and small artillery field pieces against Chinese positions (unseen). Japanese troops moving single file in rugged mountain terrain. Japanese soldiers cautiously moving against Chinese positions in a mountain. Exploding shells raise smoke on the mountainside.
Scenes at the Quebec Conference in 1943. President Franklin D Roosevelt, Mrs Churchill, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated. Allied military generals stand behind the leaders, and Prime Minister Mackenzie King is seated also. Chateau Frontenac in background. President Roosevelt and General Omar N Bradley watch plane land on water. Boat brings party from plane. Anthony Eden and President Franklin Roosevelt shaking hands and talking. (World War II period).
Prime Minister of UK, Winston Churchill in Quebec, Canada for Quebec Conference of 1943. Sign reads: 'Stand By On The Air.' Winston Churchill and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King in an open top car (a Canadian McLaughlin-Buick convertible, specifically a Buick Series 90 Limited Convertible Phaeton). Churchill in white coat, waves his hat as the car passes by the crowd assembled.
Innsbruck Shooting Festival in Innsbruck during July, 1943, announced by banner stretched across a road. Buildings and Nazi banners in view. Closeups of Austrian men and women in colorful costumes. Closeup glimpse of the flag of a World War II Austrian State. A parade of Austrians carrying various Austrian State flags and others carrying unidentified flags. The parade viewed from above, and then from within the ranks of marching participants in traditional uniforms and carrying rifles. A huge crowd of spectators gathered on the sidewalks. A brass band playing for the marchers, from the sidelines. Shots of marcher's feet and then of them from waist up. German soldiers in uniform, recovering from war wounds, have front row seats. An antique cannon is fired. Then the street becomes completely filled with participants and spectators.
Fall of Benito Mussolini in Italy. Mussolini seen speaking to a crowd and shaking his fist. Sicily surrenders to Allied troops during World War II. German soldiers holding white surrender flags march forward. Civilians in Italy cheer the arrival of smiling American soldiers. Scene changes to American B-25 bomber aircraft dropping bombs over Japanese positions in Pacific Theater. Close view of bombardier calibrating position and bombs away from bomb bay doors toward Japanese-held targets. Gun camera footage of Allied aircraft attacking Nazi German Wolfpack submarines in the Atlantic Ocean. Allied aircraft, including B-25 bombers, bombing German industry and cities during a night raid. In England, United Kingdom, church service is held open to the sky in the ruins of bombed out Coventry Cathedral, which had been destroyed by German Luftwaffe blitz bombing of Britain. Clergy, robed choir members, and British parishioners seen at the enthronement service of Bishop of Coventry Neville Gorton in 1943, enclosed only by the exterior walls of St. Michaels, Coventry Cathedral.
American soldiers in Italy, during Allied Operation Husky, and Operation Avalanche in World War 2. In landings during invasion of Salerno, Italy, soldiers pause their movements while two use a detector to search for possible buried mines. They detect one and are seen carefully digging it up from the sandy soil. Soldiers unroll steel matting across an area of beach. Close-up of heavy trucks moving across the matting. A bulldozer uses a cable to pull a section of temporary docking out of an LST (Landing ship tank). Troops move across several sections of such docking as they make their way onto the shore. A sherman tank making its way toward the shore . More heavy equipment coming ashore from LSTs, including a US M1 155mm “Long Tom” Gun. The gun being towed on shore, as trucks and jeeps maneuver through shallow water nearby. A long line of jeeps and trucks moving inland. Military vehicles being offloaded from the British Landing Ship Tank (HM LST-200). U.S. troops moving on a beachhead, along with artillery pieces, and vehicles. Soldiers carrying boxes of supplies and ammunition and struggling with large wooden crates of such, in shallow surf, and using a roller conveyor to offload some heavy items from a ship. A landing craft suspended from a cable operated A-Frame on wheels (in the water). At this point the thrust of the film shifts to illustrate the hazards of amphibious operations, in general. Swamped vehicles and a landing craft in the surf. The beach littered with damaged and swamped landing craft and equipment, including, among others, a landing craft from the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). A huge explosion in the water. Glimpse of a German Junkers Ju 87 (Stuka) dive bomber attacking while being shot down by a U.S. sailor firing an anti-aircraft gun . View from above of sailors firing twin bofors 40mm antiaircraft cannons from an emplacement on a ship. Several German Junkers Ju 87 planes maneuvering as they attack. Quad bofors antiaircraft guns firing from a ship. More attacking Ju-87 dive bombers on the attack. A dramatic explosion and smoke from the Liberty ship SS Robin Rowan after being hit by a German bomb off the coast of Gela, Sicily on July 11, 1943. A landing ship burning from German bombing, off Gela, Sicily, with its deck full of halftrack and personnel carrier vehicles. The film continues the theme of losses encountered in wartime amphibious assaults, by shifting to the Pacific theater of operation, where a Landing Ship Tank (LST) is seen ablaze, off Guadalcanal, after being hit by Japanese shelling. View from beach with barbed wire, ashore, of the burning LST. Sherman tanks lost in a conflagration aboard an LST. Sailors carry a casualty on a litter, and place it next to other fallen crew members, on deck.
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