Scenes from the Battle of the Bulge, and siege of Bastogne during World War Two. Large numbers of United States Army Air Force C-47B Skytrain transport planes drop parachute supplies for troops at Bastogne, Belgium. Ruins of the town of Bastogne. A street littered with dead bodies and rubble. U.S. troops advancing into the town of Haguenau on the border with Germany, and further into Germany, itself. American MPs (Military Police) search civilians and check identity cards and check U.S. soldiers in military vehicles to guard against Germans in American uniforms. U.S. M4 Sherman tanks move ahead on the front. Artillery being fired. Troops engage in street fighting. Group of Alsatian women rejoice as they are being released from a prison, where they had been held by Germans. U.S. troops advance through a wooded area. U.S. Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes speaks about the sacrifices of U.S. troops who are fighting and dying for their country and appeals to Americans, safe at home, to work for the war effort.
Recap ot the Allied invasion at Normandy, in World War II. Convoy reaches Normandy on D-Day. Allied fleet heads for Normandy beach. Blinker signals being given from ships. Naval ships start to fire broadsides and bombard coasts. Allied troops board landing crafts alongside ships. U.S. P-51 fighters and B-26s strafe flak towers, railroads, and canals in Normandy. Troops offload onto assault boats and landing craft. Rockets being fired from ships toward coastal positions of the enemy. Bombs being dropped over ground targets from Allied bombers. Smoke billows up from bomb explosions. Naval guns bombard a coast. From edited film produced in 1947.
U.S. army personnel work on a fuel tank and pipeline pump in North Africa during World War II. A 5000 barrel tank with two pipelines in the foreground. Pvt. (Private) Harold L. Schenkel of Huntington, Indiana climbs ladder to tank top. Schenkel climbs over edge of ladder and walks towards other side. He opens large cap, unwinds steel tape down into a tank, and takes measurement. He rewinds tape, closes cap and walks away. Operator walks past gasoline pipeline pump and inspects shut-off valves. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder bombers fly overhead.
Fueling of USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) B-26 Marauder bomber aircraft parked on a dirt field in North Africa during World War II. Italian prisoners carry and unload cases of foodstuffs onto conveyor line. Italian prisoners on either side of the conveyor line. Cases stacked in an area. Prisoners move cases. Unsorted pile of crated foodstuffs.
The Pan Am Boeing 314 flying boat 'California Clipper', NC 18609, in the Philippines. This particular flying boat was the first Pan Am craft to fly around the world. Small boats at a pier. A sign at the pier reads 'No Admittance'. The flying boat in water. Pan American personnel on the pier. The B-314 docks and passengers disembark and walk along the pier. This flying boat would later be renamed the 'Pacific Clipper'
Scenes of Nichols Field, the Philippines, in 1941, before World War 2, in the Pacific. An airman plays with a budgerigar parakeet that sits on the shoulder and walks on his hands and arms. Group of airmen conversing in front of Squadron building. A truck, with Nichols Field painted on its side, arrives. A Bolo bomber (B-18), is seen in background. An airman drinks a coke and dons a checkered white cap with 17th written on it. A seversky P-35 pursuit airplane, originally slated for delivery to Sweden (note fuselage insignia), lands on the airfield.
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