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Montage of scenes showing the continuous close coordination between the United States and Britain during World War II
Film shows an invasion task force at sea overwritten by a slate reading, "Casablanca." Narrator speaks of January, 1943, in World War 2. View of the city of Casablanca in Morocco. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt seated next to British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill as they meet in Casablanca, at the Anfa Hotel, January 14–24, 1943, during World War 2. Roosevelt wears a black armband on his left sleeve in mourning over the death of his mother, in 1941. Backs of Military officers seen from behind, with Churchill and Roosevelt on chairs in the background. Then a closeup of Roosevelt and Churchill seated with high ranking Allied military officers behind them, including U.S. Admiral Ernest King and U.S. General George Marshall. View from directly overhead of marching American soldiers. Huge number of British soldiers led by a Rolls Royce armored car, are seen walking across the desert, celebrating their victory over German forces at Tunisia. Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt seated on the lawn in front of the White House during the third Washington Conference (code-named Trident) held in Washington DC, from May 12 to May 25, 1943. Closeups of both men. Scene shifts to a U.S. invasion task force in the Pacific. Glimpse of a Benson-Livermore class destroyer near hills in the Pacific. A navy Douglas Dauntless dive bomber flies over ships in an invasion task force. U.S. troops are seen in a Higgins Boat landing craft from the transport ship USS President Jackson (APA-18). Troops storming ashore from landing craft. U.S. troops firing artillery field pieces, and raising the U.S. flag on a captured island in the Pacific. Scene shifts to European theater, where an Allied warship is firing its guns during Allied invasion of Sicily, code named Operation Husky, 9 July – 17 August 1943. Amphibious assault taking place. A jeep is seen pulling an artillery piece through shallow surf. An army truck drives through shallow surf, out of a landing craft. Breech view of artillery gun being fired and shell ejecting. A shell exploding near the camera. Camouflaged antiaircraft guns firing. Series of brief scenes showing Soviet Russian infantry and tanks advancing against German forces in Russia. Next scene shows Benito Mussolini in military dress uniform, giving a speech, and then posing next to a Bronze statue of Roman emperor, Julius Caesar, in Rome, Italy, as troops march past him. A bust of Mussolini being pulled down. Rioting Italians. Axis defenders in Sicily, carrying a white flag as they surrender to Allied powers. Views of Lieutenant General Mark Clark and a Major General pleased at the surrender. American troops being cheered by Sicilians as they ride in jeeps. Italian men receiving food after the surrender, as a British soldier stands nearby. U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Liberator bombers in flight over the Northwest Pacific. Aerial view of Kiska in the Aleutians. B-17 flying Fortress bomber in flight with bomb bays open. Bombardier at his station in the aircraft he presses button to release bombs. Formation of B-24 bombers dropping bombs. View from aircraft of them exploding on the ground. Aerial view of surfaced German submarine being strafed by Allied aircraft. After several attacks it is sunk. B-24 bombers raining bombs over Germany. Huge explosions on the ground raising plumes of white smoke. Bombed out remains of Coventry Cathedral in England. Religious services being held in the ruins. View of the Pentagon building just outside Washington DC, and the British Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street, London, England. View of Quebec Canada. A Canadian sentry on a hill. The Wolfe–Montcalm Monument in Governors' Garden beside the Château Frontenac, Quebec, Canada. Views of the Chateau Frontenac. Canadian troops patrolling around the Hotel. Royal Northwest Mounted Police on the grounds. Canadian soldiers with antiaircraft guns, scanning sky for possible threats. Armed couriers loading bags of official dispatches into a car. The dispatches being delivered to waiting aircraft. Censors examining postal mail. Conference attendees showing their passes to Canadian Mounted police officers at the hotel entrance. Closeup of an actual pass issued to a U.S. Army Major.
Air Sea Rescue aircraft U.S. PBY Catalina flying boat escorted by P-47 Thunderbolts to England during World War II.
A dramatization detailing the rescue by ASR (Air Sea Rescue) aircraft of a damaged B-24 Liberator bomber in European Theater during World War II. A B-24 bomber with number 2 engine shut down, in flight over water. Pilot of B-24 contacts ASR control room based in England. ASR controller contacts U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt fighters patrolling over sea. P-47s escort the B-24 to airbase in England. ASR methods showing PBY taxiing on water, high speed motor boat underway, and dinghies dropped by means of parachute from P-47s.
United States Army Air Force fighters attack German fighters while escorting U.S. B-17 bombers over Germany during World War II.
USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) bombing operations over Germany during World War 2. Aircrews leave briefing room. Aircrew on jeep being taken to U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress bomber plane. Ground crews waving to pilot. B-17 engine starts and plane taxis. B-17 takes off. U.S. B-24 Liberator bomber takes off. B-17 takes off. Formation of B-17s. USAAF P-47 Thunderbolt fighters taxiing. Airman fires gun. P-47s and F-38s take off from an airfield. Formations of B-17s with USAAF P-38 Lightning fighters overhead escorting. P-47s escorting B-17s. Interiors showing German raid alert room as word comes of an American raid. German anti-aircraft gunners in action. Formation of B-17s as flak bursts around them. German crew chief helping pilot into a parachute, pilot gets into a plane. German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter planes take off from airfield. Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter planes and Messerschmitt Bf 109 planes buzz airfield. Formation of B-17s escorted by P-47s and P-38s. Aerial view of German fighter being shot down. P-38s and P-47s peel off to meet a German fighter plane in aerial dogfight. Several views of German aircraft exploding and catching fire in air. Aerial formations of B-17s in sky leaving vapor trails. Interiors of aircraft showing gunners. B-17 with tail shot away. German fighter planes attack B-17 formations. B-17 on fire spinning towards the ground. B-17 formations flying through flak. Bombs being dropped by B-17s over German targets. Close view of bomb bay doors opened and bombs being released from bombers.
Destruction from Allied bombing at Lae airfield, New Guinea. B-25s fly bombing missions against Japanese targets in Wewak area.
Opening slate gives date as September 20, 1943. Scenes show devastation wrought by Allied bombing of the Japanese airfield at Lae, New Guinea. Most views are from the ground, as Allies occupy the field. Numerous Japanese aircraft are destroyed along with all the buildings and facilities. Next, is shown the view from inside a B-25 bomber, on September 27, 1943, as it flies in a 100 aircraft bombing mission to attack coastal facilities, ships, and airfields in the Wewak area, including the main air base at Wewak and its satellite fields at Boram, Dagua and But. Several B-25s are seen ahead in formation. View of the coastal area below as the camera plane (B-25) comes under fire by Japanese anti-aircraft guns. A pall of smoke hangs over the Wewak area from bombing by B-24s earlier. view from cockpit as the B-25 makes very low strafing and bombing attack against the Japanese satellite airbase at Boram. Another B-25 seen as it flies close to the ground. View to the rear shows small parachutes being released by the B-25, carrying single 100-lb fragmentation bombs and 23-pounders in clusters of three. The fragmentation bombs explode amongst palm trees sheltering Japanese aircraft. view out the back of the camera B-25 shows it continuing to fly, just over the tree tops, at very low altitude. Next, several B-25s are seen rejoined up in formation, ahead. Scene shifts to view from high altitude of bombs striking in the Wewak waterfront area. View from below of three B-25s in formation. Then view from cockpit of a B-25 flying low over the water strafing a ship. (Narrator says they dive low to skip-bomb a ship trying to escape.) Various views of the high hills at the waterfront. View from B-25 strafing Japanese aircraft on the ground at Dagua and Boram airfields. several B-25s in formation headed home. (World War II period).
Crew of the U.S. B-17 "Memphis Belle" begin their 25th (final) mission from Bassingbourn airfield, England, during World War 2
Scenes regarding the U.S. 8th Air Force B-17 named Memphis Belle, the first American bomber and crew to complete twenty-five missions over enemy territory in Europe during World War Two. Views of the peaceful English countryside around the British Royal Air Force Bassingbourn airfield, home base of the U.S. 8th Air Force 91st Heavy Bombardment Group. B-17s parked all around on the airfield. Views of Bassingbourn Church, graveyard, horse-drawn wagon, fields of grain, and farm buildings. On the airfield, ground crews clean canopies, refuel aircraft, and perform maintenance on the B-17s. Bombs seen stacked in munitions dump. Airmen ride on bombs aboard trolleys pulled by tugs. One plays the harmonica. Arriving at B-17s, they begin inserting nose fuzes in bombs. Pilots, Navigators, and bombardiers attend morning mission briefing and learn that their target is Wilhelmshaven. Chaplain prays over several crew members. Bombs are loaded on the B-17s. Crew of the 324th Bomb Squadron B-17, "Memphis Belle," arrives at the aircraft aboard a jeep. Pilot, Captain Robert K. Morgan gives last minute briefing and the crew boards the aircraft for their 25th bombing mission. Their airplane has 24 bombs painted on its side (one for each mission). They start their engines.
A World War II Ford Motor Company film entitled: "Women on the Warpath."
Film begins showing the Ford bomber aircraft factory at Willow Run, near Detroit, Michigan, during World War 2. Views of the heavy industrial plant with smoke rising from smoke stacks. Cranes loading ships at various docks. Modern looking administrative buildings at the Willow Run plant. A wheeled tractor pulls a train of flat cars filled with parts for the assembly line, next seen, where B-24 Liberator bombers are being assembled. Partially constructed bomber bodies and wings are seen on a production floor. In another section of the plant, war production workers assemble aircraft engines. View of and engine, enclosed in a nacelle, being lowered by a crane. A gunner's compartment being lowered by a crane. Women's Army Corps (WAC) members at work replacing men called to serve in the armed forces. A contingent of WAC practice donning gas masks. Women in uniforms of United States Women's Naval Reserve (WAVES). Two women attendants service a car at a gas station. Women not engaged in war effort are seen shopping and on a golf course and swimming. A woman hanging clothes to dry on a backyard line. A flight of three B-24 bombers flies overhead, causing women in various pursuits, to look up to the sky. Cars arrive at the Ford bomber plant in Willow Run, carrying women volunteers. One middle aged woman punches a time clock in the factory. More views of the B-24 production line, and parts being stamped by a man operating a press. Scene transitions showing the man gone, and a women replacing him at the press. Women war production workers working on aircraft frameworks. A woman, walking on a sidewalk, pauses to look at advertisements encouraging women to work in the war effort. One read: "Women at war, We can't win without them." A sign outside an office reading: "War Manpower Commission." The woman enters that office.