U.S. fighter aircraft in Italy during World War II. Aerial view of Italian terrain. A view through the clouds in the sky. Aerial view of farmlands. A stream flowing through the fields. A United States Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft in flight over the fields. A few aircraft in formation flight. Hills and mountains in view. Aerial view of a wooded region. Sheep in the countryside. Several sheep grazing on the fields. Men and women in the countryside. The aircraft in flight over a path through the fields. The path leading to the entrance gate of a farm. A fence enclosing the farm.
United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) aircraft in France during the Battle of France of World War II. A USAAF B-25 Mitchell medium bomber in flight. The aircraft in flight over fields and wooded areas. The aircraft in flight over target areas. The aircraft drops bombs over a bridge which explodes. Thick smoke rises from the explosion. The smoke spreads over the area. The surrounding wooded region in view. Few B-25 Mitchells in formation flight. The tail section of a B-25 in view. The B-25s in formation flight over a coastline.
The United States Army Quartermaster Corps in the United States during World War 2. Supplies for the Quartermaster Corps like boots, dresses, cigarettes and hardware. A tent encampment. A soldier standing in a wooded region. An officer seated at a table in an office. The flag with the Quartermaster Corps insignia flutters from a pole. Point of view shot at nearly eye level with large column of U.S. Army soldiers marching toward camera position, holding rifles as they march in formation. The soldiers eat seated at tables in a dining hall or mess area. The Quartermaster Corps unload boxes of supplies during a war overseas. A number of boxes of supplies on a beach. Several Quartermaster Corps unloading boxes from landing crafts on the beach. View of a pair of boots which is part of the necessary uniform equipment. A large number of cabbages in a heap. Pieces of hardware hung on stands on a wall. The boxes of supplies are stacked in a store before distribution. The corps distributed uniforms. United States Army Soldiers on tanks moving on a path. The soldiers arrive at landing crafts on a beach. Large columns of U.S. Army soldiers march in formation. Women's Army Corps (WAC) and nurses move in formation. Women working in textile webbing factory with large spools of webbing or string during manufacture process. The soldiers march. Ships in a harbor. Supplies at a dock for army and navy requirements.
Quartermaster procurements in the United States. A map shows classification of Quartermaster coal regions. An oil well which produces petroleum for the army. Equipment at the plant. The Fuel and Lubricants Division at headquarters through which petroleum procurement is directed. People working in a Fuel and Lubricants Division office. An officer in one of the purchasing offices who, on directive from the headquarters, will procure products. A ship at a port. A supply contract form enables the materials to be in the custody of a supplier until shipment. Facilities and equipment in the industry. Petroleum stored in cans in the premises. Huge equipment in the industry.
Reminders of World War 2, in France, 1945. A high bridge of about eight masonry arches with two bombed out, in mountainous region of France. Camera pans right, showing a number of substantial homes scattered across the valley, with tall mountains behind. Scene shifts to a different, flatter landscape, where about a dozen U.S. Waco CG-4A gliders are seen abandoned in a field, in various states of disrepair. Writing in chalk on the side of one glider reads, "Whispering Yoddles, Fort Worth Texas, Little One Alice". There are no D-day stripes on these gliders, indicating they were probably used subsequent to the Normandy invasion, in other operations such as "Bluebird & Dove" in the South of France, in August, 1944.
Garden allotments, small plots parceled out, for the townsfolk to grow vegetables in the British Zone of Occupation in Germany. The outskirts of Hamlin town: German women at work to grow vegetables, children in the foreground. Views of heads and bare feet of sturdy German women thrusting spades into soil. A very old woman. Hanover region- countryside: a farming area. Two old German peasants work in the foreground. Two old peasants rake the soil.