U.S. Navy sailors in a mess hall at the Naval Station Great Lakes during training in World War 1 period. The sailors walk and form ranks in front of the mess hall. They march in through a door. An old car parked in the foreground. The sailors go through the door. Interior of the mess hall. Tables being set. Waiters place food on plates. The sailors enter, sit at the long tables and eat.
United States 5th Marines Division in Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. White Phosphorus shells and rocket burst as smoke rises. Enemy emplacement on fire. M-4 tank with a long stream of fire as it burns. Convoy in the harbor. A wrecked U.S. Navy PBY aircraft in the foreground. American convoy in the harbor. Marines along the beach in Iwo Jima.
German A-4 ballistic missile launches in Peenemunde, Germany during World War II immediately after a brief shot of an Agfa camera slate. The A-4 missile AKA V-2 rocket on a launch pad. Missile being launched. Long shot as the missile moves upwards vertically after the launch.
Three German soldiers with explosive laden remote controlled motor boats. One man shows radio controls used to guide the boats from one control boat. The boatmen embark, one man aboard the pilot boat and the other two on explosive boats. Boats underway in water. German soldier aims the boat at target and jumps into water. A man works on radio controls as he guides the boat to the target. Scenes of a German "Hai" human torpedo. The 40 foot long Torpedo, with operator in bubble cockpit, is lowered into river by a crane and motors away. (World War II period).
A long line of German soldiers happily make their way along a road in Germany on the American-occupied side of the Elbe River, at Tangermunde, Germany after the German surrender in World War 2. A German soldier, wearing only underclothes and dog tags, emerges from swimming across the Elbe River just as an American Field Grade officer is escorting some German officers along the river bank. The American motions for the swimmer to join them. Next, the swimmer is he is seen with another successful swimmer, being escorted by American soldiers.
U.S. Army Major Achille C. Tisdell testifies before a military tribunal in Manila, Phillipines during the trial of Japanese Army General Masaharu Homma for World War II crimes. Major Tisdell, aide-de-camp to Commanding General of the American forces in Luzon Major General Edward King is asked about how long he was at Camp O'Donnell. He says that he was there from April 13, 1942 to June 1, 1942. He recalls that at the camp the commanding officer of the prison camp addressed them. Major Tisdell being questioned about the Red Cross supplies. He says that once Red Cross food and medical supplies arrived at the camp gates but were not permitted to enter. He also speaks about the number of times he was questioned at the camp and that he was offered an opportunity to move to Manila and work for the Japanese. He says that a number of times the prisoners were beaten for no reason by the Japanese guards.
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