The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Opening scenes show bomb damage due to German Luftwaffe blitzkrieg air raids (The Blitz) in Southern Counties of London earlier during Battle of Britain in World War 2. Firemen and rescue workers try to extinguish the fires with water hoses. The rescue workers conduct operations amidst bomb damaged buildings and rubble. Severely damaged buildings. Rubble strewn all over the streets in England. A Food Flying Squad van makes its way on the streets. Food distributed from the van. A British man walks amidst the rubble. Relief work in progress. Buckets of food and water lying at camps. Displaced civilian people eat and drink. London civilian residents evacuate numerous areas. Evacuees walk across a bridge. Big Ben seen in the background. Allied bombers in flight. Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquito aircraft track and shoot down enemy aircraft. The dogfights result in mid air explosions. Two soldiers operate a U.S. radar designed to direct antiaircraft fire in combat area. The radar tracks a target moving up to 600 miles an hour. The soldiers track down aerial targets, the gun directors make adjustments and the antiaircraft guns are fired at buzz bombs. Enemy V-1 Flying bombs are hit and downed before they can reach the coastline. German V-1 rockets are tracked over England by radar and shot down. An V-1 is hit. It descends to the ground and explodes. France: A downed V-1 flying bomb is examined. The wreckage of a V-1 in a field. Soldiers and civilians near the wrecked V-1 Flying Bomb
The French 2nd Armored Division and British troops advance through Sées, France during World War II. Tanks pass wrecked military vehicles on the streets of Sées. Tanks and artillery advance. Soldiers on foot. A painted sign on the wall reads 'Falaise'. Troops drink cider being served by French civilians.
The French 2nd Armored Division and British troops advance through Sées, France during World War II. Tanks pass wrecked soldiers on the streets of Sées. War damage around. Soldiers on tanks. A painted sign on the wall reads 'Falaise'. Soldiers and tanks pass by the sign. Other military vehicles follow the tanks. Soldiers on tanks and motorcycles. Tanks move past a restricted district sign board amidst rubble on the ground.
The French 2nd Armored Division and British troops advance through Alencon in France during World War II. Tanks and vehicles move through Alencon. Soldiers in tanks pass damaged and wrecked war equipment. Tanks and vehicles pass wreckage and damaged equipment near railway tracks. Soldiers on motorcycles. They pass a sign that reads 'Ecouchee'. Vehicles advance past an abandoned German rocket gun. Soldiers walk past the gun.
The British Royal Marines control a local Arab war in Aden following independence from Britain. Royal Marine Commandos stand around a jeep and discuss a map on a jeep bonnet. Aerial view of the small township of Crater, located in the center of an extinct volcano. Royal Marine tanks advance on a road. Military vehicles including an ambulance. A Commando with a gun and ammunition belts keeps guard. Commandos stand near an ambulance on a road. Marine Commandos in position behind barricades and at check points, seal off the town.
Allied troops aboard a ship underway in the Atlantic Ocean prior to the Allied invasion of France during World War II. Allied ships underway at sea. A landing craft at sea. Allied officers aboard a ship. One of them smokes a cigar. A Landing Ship Tank underway at sea. A number of ships underway. A signalman looks through binoculars. Silhouetted face of a man aboard a ship. The open sea. British officers confer on the bridge of a ship. A man in an overcoat aboard a ship.
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