Camp Strathpine, an Australian training camp set up for the U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division in Queensland, Australia during World War II. Soldiers of 1st Cavalry Division seated on logs of wood during a Protestant church services. The soldiers seated in front of an altar. The altar is made out of logs of wood. Lighted candles at the altar.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill accompanied by Lady Clementine Churchill and daughter, Sarah (in uniform of Women's Auxiliary Air Force), arrives by train in London, after an absence of two months. He had fallen ill following the Tehran Conference and remained abroad to convalesce in Marrakesh, Morocco. A crowd of well-wishers fills the platform. He chats with British military officers and officials and correspondents.
Soviet forces fight against the Nazi German soldiers in the Soviet Union during World War 2. Soviet soldiers in action as artillery is fired. Soviet Katyusha multiple rocket launchers firing at night. A waterfront city under bombardment. Soviet infantry spread out and walking across a field. Soviet soldiers firing mortars. Soviet troops crowded atop an armored personnel carrier. A Soviet T34 tank. Soviet troops raising their flag over a re-captured town. Former residents returning to Soviet towns and cities after the Nazis are driven out. Soviet cavalry on horseback. View of Red Square with antiaircraft guns firing volleys in salute.
A cocker spaniel named Pistol Head returns home at La Guardia Field in New York, United States. An aircraft lands at La Guardia Field. Late Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Willis's dog Pistol Head in a wooden box as it is unloaded from an airplane. An officer holds the dog. A WAC ( Women's Army Corps) officer with the dog. The officer hands over the dog to Mrs. Willis. The dog in Mrs. Willis's arms .
U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) celebrate their second anniversary in the United States. WAVES at a corn farm in Cedar Falls, Iowa as they detassle corn plants. The WAVES wearing U.S. Navy caps. They eat corn on the cob. At the Hunter College in New York : The WAVES parade as the Mayor of New York Fiorello H. La Guardia and officers review the parade. The WAVES carry the American flag as they march.
Fort Benning in Georgia, United States. Trainee paratroopers train at Fort Benning. They undergo obstacle courses. The paratroopers don equipment. Captain Lilyman as an officer speaks to the trainees. Aircraft in flight. The paratroopers aboard an airborne airplane. View from chest mounted camera of a paratrooper with a cigar in his mouth as he descends, smiling, toward the ground with his parachute open. The paratroopers drop from the airplane with parachutes and descend.
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