The New Guinea campaign during World War II. A heavy cruiser underway at sea. Anti aircraft guns fired at the cruiser from a U.S. Navy battleship. U.S. Marines holding guns. The Marines fire at the cruiser. U.S. soldiers on a ship. U.S. Navy LCPs (Landing Craft, Personnel) move towards a beach. Marines aboard an LCP. The Marines holding guns get down from the LCP and move onto the beach. Marines from a U.S. Navy LCI (Landing Craft, Infantry) on the beach. An army truck driving down the ramp of a U.S. Navy LST (Landing Ship, Tank) onto the beach.The LST half immersed in water. An army jeep driven on a muddy road, soldiers on either side. A few soldiers wading through a stream with their hands raised to hold their guns. A soldier wades through the stream holding two ammunition boxes on his shoulders. Guns fired from a tank. Soldiers with rifles walk through bushes. An M4 Sherman tank moving in a wooded region. Combat infantrymen follow the tank. Two tanks fire into the wooded region. A group of soldiers wade through tropical grass. Three soldiers load projectiles into a 75mm mortar. Soldiers look at a Japanese field gun. Dead Japanese soldiers lying beside the gun. American soldiers observe a wrecked Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service fighter aircraft A6M Zero. LCPs move towards a beach. Soldiers man a 30 caliber machine gun aboard a LCP. The LCPs approach the beach and the soldiers advance across the beach into the wooded area. Several more LCPs arrive. A United States Army Air Force B-24 Liberator takes off from an airfield. Several bomber aircraft in flight. Bombs dropped from the bomb bay of an aircraft on Japanese positions. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Explosions on areas along a coast line. Thick smoke rises from the bombed areas.
U.S. troops on Roi-Namur island of the Kwajalein Atoll during the Battle of Kwajalein in World War II. Marines at a 1.1"/75 caliber gun on the deck of a ship. A fleet of U.S. Navy transports and aircraft carriers underway at sea. The cargo deck of an LST (Landing Ship, Tank). Explosions due to bombardment on Kwajalein Atoll. U.S. Marines in boats heading towards the shore. Smoke due to explosions on the beach. Troops going down the side of transport ship using a cargo net into the LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel). Ships at sea and clouds of smoke rising in the background. Marines getting down from LCVPs on the shore. A Marine fires a 3"/50 caliber gun. An amphibious craft on the shore. A U.S. Navy dive bomber SBD Dauntless in flight overhead. Explosions on the beach. An LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) underway at sea. The Marines get off an LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) and advance across the beach. Marines and a few amphibious vehicles on the beach. An LVT coming up on the beach. Two GIs firing rifles on the shore. An LST with troops on the beach. Marines load and fire 75 mm howitzers. A combat cameraman operates a camera mounted on a tripod. Marines on an airfield. An explosion occurs and dirt and rubble fly all around. Marines inside a bomb crater firing carbines. A Marine looking under a concrete slab aiming his carbine. A Marine engineer constructing a yard grenade with one end in a hole and other Marines standing around taping a fuse on it. Two Marines run away from the hole. Explosions occur. Dead Japanese soldiers lying behind a wooden screen. A partially constructed Japanese hangar with burnt canvas. A part of the tail of a Japanese bomber in view. Two soldiers beside a wrecked aircraft. One of them looking into the fuselage of the aircraft. View of the tail assembly of a wrecked Japanese bomber on an airfield. A damaged Japanese bunker. An LCVP beside a U.S. Navy ship. Wounded men being transferred from the LCVP to the ship. Church services held on a beach at Kwajalein.
Clip opens with brief World War I scene, circa 1917, of new American army recruits receiving army uniforms being issued by a U.S. Army Quartermaster. Clip then covers U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps' combat operations in various Theaters of Operations during World War II. Quartermaster Corps soldiers with rifles under the cover of a military truck during battle. Troops in trucks. An aircraft in low flight over a field. A U.S. Army truck. A Quartermaster fires an anti aircraft gun. Explosions occur and smoke rises. A British tank in a field. Soldiers beside a truck. Cans and barrels stacked on the ground. An enemy German tank in a field. Soldiers take cover. Quartermasters with guns in a trench. They come up the trench in prone positions. Dramatized battle scene with several Quartermaster corps casualties beside a wire fence. Soldiers prepare a mortar gun. An anti aircraft gun on an army truck. A soldier takes aim and fires a rifle during training. The Quartermaster flag hoisted on a pole. Actual footage shows aerial view of Bataan, and then ground views of groups of remaining U.S. Army soldiers around time of surrender of Bataan in April 1942. American soldier seen with their hands up and under guard of Japanese soldiers during Bataan surrender. Landing crafts arrive at a beach in North Africa. Supplies being offloaded at various battle fronts of World War 2. Soldiers and supplies off-loaded on the beach. Quartermasters seated on supplies boxes. Landing crafts arrive at a beach in the South West Pacific. Troops move across the beach. Troops disembark from landing crafts and move across a beach in Sicily, Italy. The Quartermasters unload boxes of supplies during various beach landings. They unload supplies and fire artillery on a beach head in Italy. Troops in trucks. A convoy of trucks loaded with supplies. Ammunition, ration and personnel in trucks move from Algeria to the front in Tunisia. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Trucks advance through smoke at night and in difficult conditions. Quartermaster General Major General E. B. Gregory speaks about the Quartermaster Corps. He says that the Quartermasters distribute goods to the army during training and combat. The movement of the Corps should be so regulated so as to deliver the goods at the right time in the right quantity.
Allied invasion of southern France (Operation Dragoon) during World War 2. Equipment on Red beach in southern France and ships in the background. Sailors on the beach send a blinker signal. A landing craft approaches the beach. A gun emplacement on the beach. Another landing craft approaches the beach and its ramp being lowered. Vehicles unload from the craft. A DUKW (amphibious vehicle) arrives on the beach. Vehicles being unloaded from a landing craft as a man signals on the beach.
Gun camera footage shows allied fighters strafing targets in French countryside during the Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) in World War 2. Various vehicles, buildings and railway lines exploding as they are hit. German trucks being strafed by fighters. Aerial view of various railway lines, trains exploding due to strafing. Allied forces gliders on the ground. An Airspeed Horsa glider with “D-Day” invasion stripes. Two United States soldiers walk away from the Airspeed Horsa glider. British and United States soldiers unload supplies on the beach. More soldiers land on the beach in Normandy, walking down ramps from landing craft into water at beach. A tank and bulldozer drive up onto beach. Soldiers patrol the beach, with half-timbered Norman French houses in ruins on land. Famous shot of an Allied soldier collapsing on beach after being shot on the beach in Normandy during D-Day.
The AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) Outdoor National Track and Field Championships in Bakersfield, California. James Ronald 'Jim' Ryun participates in the 1 mile event. An official in a stand with a sign that reads 'Bulova Photometer'. Officials, coaches and team members inside the track. Spectators in the stadium. Ryun crosses the finish line. He is congratulated by other runners. Photographers take pictures. He breaks his own world record for the mile. He shaves two-tenths of a second for a 3:51.1 performance with a final quarter-mile of 53.5 seconds.
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