Activities at Second Aviation Instruction Center in France during World War I. A large number of British Airco DH-4 biplane light bombers stationary at an airfield. Hangar buildings in the background. Ground crew around the aircraft. The hangars in the foreground with different numbers written on them. A DH-4 aircraft parked in front of a hangar. An unidentified aircraft in flight. A guard tower on the top of a hangar.
Reconstruction of Berlin, Germany after World War 2. Quonset hut type barracks buildings in an area of Berlin. Buildings on Meringdam street. Buildings on Kurfürstendamm street in the British Zone including the heavily damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin, Germany) in the center of the Breitscheidplatz. Civilians walk in the streets and shop. Traffic on the streets. Cars parked in the background. A sidewalk displays a box. A building under construction. A hotel. Civilians ride bicycles on the road. The Rathaus Schöneberg (John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin, Germany) and civilians on the street.
The Marshall Plan at work in Great Britain. Mining operations undertaken by people. Men operate different machines during mining. Freshly plowed farm land and a factory set up near the farm. Women work at a production line of a factory for what appears to be soap bars. Wome at work in a textile mill, processing raw cotton and spinning it on large industrial loom equipment. A man rolls a barrel of whiskey. Barrels of scotch whiskey are readied for export. Text on barrel indicates it is 1938 aged scotch from Glen-Kinchie Distillery, then one marked Cragganmore Glenlivet, then a barrel marked Aultmore Glenlivet. A man inspects different whiskeys and tastes them. Scotch Whiskey is bottled in a bottling factory and labeled. Readied whiskey bottles. People purchase whiskey from an export shop. A tourist in a British clothing store. A man looks at different clothing in a clothing shop, as a tailor shows him bolts of cloth for making a new suit. A woman inspects a sweater that she might purchase.
U.S. 2nd Division Marines process about 10 Japanese soldiers taken prisoner on Betio, Tarawa atoll, during the battle there in World War 2. They cut away the prisoners' clothing to assure they don't carry weapons or explosives. (Narrator states they were later given replacement clothing from captured supplies.) Marines tend to a wounded Japanese prisoner. Japanese prisoners carrying their own wounded to a pier for evacuation. Marines cleaning up using water from captured Japanese steel barrels. Marines stand on fortifcations containing British Vickers BL 15 inch Mark I coastal defense guns captured by the Japanese in Singapore. These were knocked out by U.S. naval gunfire during the pre-assault bombardment. Closeup of one breech of a gun. A knocked out Japanese light tank at the South side of Japanese Rear Admiral Shibasaki's headquarters on Betio. (Shibasaki, commander of the Japanese forces there, was reportedly killed by U.S. Naval gunfire early in the assault.) Panning view of the remains of the reinforced concrete Japanese headquarters structure. U.S. Seabees using power shovel, dump trucks, graders, and heavy rollers, to restore the airfield for U.S. operations.
A documentary television program depicts the role of U.S. soldiers in the Italian Campaign during World War II. Animated map of Italy shows the location of U.S. troops. The Volturno River and a damaged bridge on the river. Light vehicles cross over the bridge. Soldiers carry shovels. Vehicles move from a temporary bridge. A damaged bridge. Trucks drive on a mud road and on the temporary bridge. A soldier walks through mud. Water on a road and a jeep drives through the water. Animated map shows the German Winter Line on mountain Mignano. A damaged bridge. Trucks move on a mud road. A soldier erects a sign board. Troops at work during the construction of a bridge. Mules carry supplies on their back. The troops load the supplies on the back of the mules. The mules carry the supplies and move. Animated map shows the location of British and U.S. troops before attacking the German Winter Line.
U.S. troops board transports bound for Africa during World War II . U.S. troops carrying their necessary supplies walk on a dock. The troops embark a transport ship. Trucks, weapons and supplies are loaded on the transport ship. Ships underway at sea. A soldier looks through binoculars. American and British convoys rendezvous near Gibraltar. U.S. troops on a deck cheer. A convoy of ships underway in the Atlantic Ocean. Soldiers perform a drill on a deck. A gunner aboard a ship keeps a watch on the sea and the sky. A gun mounted on the deck. A destroyer underway alongside the transport ship to give orders. Officers look into the orders. Coast of Oran in the background. The troops in a barge which is lowered. They unload the barge at a harbor. Barges approach the harbor. U.S. trucks and tanks are unloaded at the harbor. A lieutenant speaks to natives. The natives help in unloading the supplies. Equipment is massed on beaches
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