German newsreel in World War 2 shows Spanish sailors in boats possibly in North Africa. A sailor talks over telephone. Sailors fire from gun mounted on the boat. Long muzzle of a gun seen. Spanish Soldiers jump from the boats and pull the boat to the beach. Soldiers march on rocky hills. Marching troop of soldiers led by the Spanish officer. Spanish officer salutes the troops.
World War II. Hitler Youth pull speed boats to the sea and jump in them. Propeller on long extender in the water. A youth operating the motor stands in the boat whereas others sit. German 'swastika' insignia on the arms of the youth. Boat reaches the beach. Youth jump out.
Narrated feature on the Korean War and the arrival and initial reactions of 24th Division Army troops during the first 50 days of war. Soldiers boarding landing craft and landing on beaches. Tending wounded soldiers. Advancing on foot. U.S. Air Force supply land landing and soldiers unloading boxes from it. Troops assembling with gear. Soldier holding box containing food rations. U.S. Soldiers in line crossing bridges and into towns as Korean citizens look on. South Korean soldiers marching through villages, looking weary from war. Villagers carrying belongings and leaving a town. U.S. soldiers march through an empty town with all shops and homes closed. U.S. soldiers digging gun placements for artillery and machine guns. Soldiers cooking. One stirs pot with knife. Battle scenes with U.S. soldiers firing artillery, rifles, machine guns. Wounded on stretchers.
View of B-25 bombers flying towards Colletta and bombing the roadways there to stop the advance of the German 16th Panzer division toward allied landing parties on the Salerno beach. Bombers dropping bombs over targets below. Destroyed airstrip areas and smoke rising from the targets below. (World War II period).
Paestum,Italy during Operation Avalanche in World War 2. US. Army infantry soldiers board LCI landing crafts and move away from beach. Three barrage balloons flying above the ships. U.S. soldiers in the ship heading towards the sea. Ship passes by the submarine nets and advances out to sea.
View of guns mounted on an allied destroyer firing at targets in Salerno,Italy. Views of mountainous coastline in background while several ships and landing crafts moving near the beach including one carrying aircraft on a special platform. Smoke rising near the shore. Soldier looking through binoculars on the approaching warship. Soldiers standing near the mounted gun on the warship and looking towards the shore. Repeated scenes of landing crafts moving towards shore. (World War II period).
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