U.S. troops board a large troop transport ship via a gangplank. Troops on an intermediate deck of the ship. Some are sprawled out relaxing. View from above of more troops boarding a ship. Men and equipment on the pier below. American forces at various far flung places where the U.S. Army Services Forces facilitated their transport and logistic support. Fleeting glimpses of troops in: Ireland; Alaska; Trinidad; and South America. Troops jam the upper deck of a transport ship. Army Service Forces officers in a planning meeting. Naval officers on deck of a ship look through binoculars as U.S. Naval ships bombard the coast of Solomon Islands and landing craft carry marines in an amphibious assault. Next, a man is seen annotating a map of North Africa. Secret maps pertaining to Allied landings in Tunisia and Algeria. Animated map illustrates amphibious landings on North African coast, highlighting Casablanca, Oran, and Algeria. Landing craft carry troops and supplies that are piled up in the sand beach. Soldiers moving military supplies ashore, in fire brigade fashion. Soldiers working at desks in Offices of the Army Service Forces. Filing cabinet in background. Trucks on the move in remote locations. Supply ship being loaded at a terminal. Fuel drums and army vehicles a being loaded aboard ships. Officers seated at a conference table. Ordinary American enlisted soldiers in a griping session at an Army post in the United States. Camera pans over large formation of soldiers. Animated chart shows more than half of servicemen who are part of Army Service Forces (ASF), are unaware of that. Troops marching in review at a tropical location, where reviewing officers wear pith helmets. Chart illustrates lack of unit pride in ASF. Images of various ASF logos. Chart shows results of polling data from soldiers and service members. Signal Corps and Engineers elements of ASF have the greatest unit pride. But most think better of other branches of the Army. More troops marching, in steel helmets and carrying rifles with bayonets affixed. Troops marching overlaid by "50%" indicating that half don't believe their contributions to the war effort are significant. Troops lined up (for pay?). More charts expressing concern about low morale. A heavy gun firing. German paratroopers jumping from a formation of Junkers Ju 52 aircraft. Charts expressing prevailing U.S. troops view that Germany wouldn't be too hard to defeat. Chart showing lack of understanding about why the U.S. is fighting Germany. Image of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill seated in front of their key military officers at Casablanca Conference in World War 2. Chart shows U.S. soldiers believe that the greatest war effort is expended by the U.S. followed by Russia, with China and Britain providing little. Chart illustrates that only half U.S. troops want to get overseas and fight. Chart shows U.S. War Department films can correct this problem.
A film on U.S. shuttle bombing operations 'Operation Titanic' over Germany from bases in Great Britain, Italy and Russia during World War II. Personnel of the U.S. 8th Air Force in Great Britain. The U.S. 15th Air Force personnel in Italy. The are briefed about the first shuttle bombing run to new Russian airfields. United States Army Air Force General Nathan Farragut Twining addresses the personnel and bids them farewell. United States Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses led by General Ira Clarence Eaker take off. USAAF B-24 Liberators take off from Great Britain. P-51 Mustangs and P-38 Lightning fighter airplanes escort the bombers on their way. The bombing forces bomb the targets in Germany. They return after their mission. Crew and officers look at the aircraft as they fly overhead. The officers look through binoculars. The crew waves towards the aircraft.
Square overlooking Danzig Town Hall (Długa 46, 80-831 Gdańsk, Poland) is filled with flags and banners of Nazi Germany during World War 2. A crowd watches a Nazi marching band in the square. German 60th Infantry Division (60th Panzergrenadier Division Feldherrnhalle) marches in the streets of Danzig holding their banner. The Nazi Wehrmacht infantry marches past the front of Danzig ( Gdansk ) Główny Central Train Station (Podwale Grodzkie 2, 80-895 Gdańsk, Poland). Rows of German soldiers neatly lined up as Zug (platoon) marches into place. Soldiers execute the Inspector Arms formation, showing their rifles. Saluting SS officials in Danzig. German soldiers standing in formation. SS generals walking by soldiers as they do the Nazi salute. A group of German soldiers standing with a Nazi banner displaying the words “Feldherrnhalle”, “Deutschland” and “Erwache” (“Feldherrnhalle. Germany Wake up”). Danzig town square filled with Nazi banners and Feldhernnhalle Wehrmacht soldiers standing in formation. “Feldherrnhalle” banner on display. Feldhernnhalle soldiers marching. General performing the Nazi salute. Feldhernnhalle soldiers marching in the Long Lane (Ulica Długa in Polish, Langgasse in German) leading to the Danzig Town Hall.
A title reading “1917”. An American ship sinks down in the Atlantic Ocean after it was torpedoed by a German U-Boat during World War I. United States President Woodrow Wilson signs the United States declaration of war on Germany. President Woodrow Wilson at work in his desk. A United States soldier blows a trumpet. United States soldiers crowd the deck of a ship sailing to Europe during WWI. The American Expeditionary Forces are waving as the ship sails away from the port. Franklin Roosevelt during World War I. American troops disembark from their ships after arriving in Europe. American women working in military supply factory. Women manufacture bullets using hand drills. A woman assembles munitions. Men building battleships at shipyard assembly line. Allied soldiers running in the battlefield to avoid being hit or bombed by the Germans. Bombs explode in the battlefield in Europe during World War I. Soldiers avoid bombs. A railway gun fires. An biplane falls in smoke after being hit. Explosion from tank in battlefield. Soldier rolls down to a trench. Explosion beside a rolling tank. A German soldier ducks in trench. An Allied soldier fires from a trench. A soldier behind him throws a grenade. Soldier with machine gun ducks from a trench. Tank rolls and fires in battlefield. Black explosion in battlefield. Soldiers run and avoid explosions. German soldiers fire a machine gun and throw grenades. Surrendered German prisoner soldiers march out as prisoners-of-war. American soldiers celebrate Armistice Day. View of the United States flag. Allied soldiers march in victory through ruined city. Americans celebrate Allied victory in World War I, filling with crowds in New York City. Americans hold banner saying, “Germany Surrenders”. Celebrating Americans in New York City, hold American flags and their hats triumphantly after Allied Victory in World War I.
View of a refugee camp in Stalingrad (now Volgograd) following the defeat of German Nazi invading forces in the Battle of Stalingrad during World War 2. Stalingrad youth emerge from refugee camp tents to work on rebuilding destroyed buildings in the city. Boys break mortar away with hammers to harvest bricks. Young men and women fix machines. Boys break apart a wall to harvest bricks. Aerial view of ruined Stalingrad after the end of the infamous Battle of Stalingrad. Destroyed buildings in Stalingrad seen from ground level. Map of Eastern Europe depicting occupation by Nazi Germany in World War 2, with the map of Texas superimposed. An animated hammer hits Stalingrad on the map. Animation depicts how the Soviet Union gradually took over territories from Nazi Germany.
German fortifications in the Maginot and Siegfried Lines in World War 2. Illustrated map of Western Europe depicting Great Britain, Netherlands, Ireland, Scandinavia, Belgium and Germany during World War 2. The Swastika symbol is shown on the German-occupied side. German soldiers and slave labor workers digging ditches for fortifications along Atlantic Wall. Shadows of men digging ditches. Men building tank barriers and roadblocks. A man twists a wire in place. Men constructing a bunker. German troops marching on the beach under watch by soldiers with guns. German troops enter a bunker. German soldiers ducking to go through a fortification bunker door one by one. Nazi German soldiers push a field gun to a camouflaged underground bunker. German soldier puts down his telephone. A howitzer in a German fortification facing the coast. Gun turrets moving up. German soldiers with a Karl-Gerät siege mortar called “Thor” during the Battle of Sevastopol. Nazi German railgun “Schwerer Gustav” during the Battle of Sevastopol. German soldiers load a 7.1 ton shell to the “Schwerer Gustav” railgun. A German officer uses a telescope. Dragon’s teeth tank obstacles in the Siegfred Line fortification in Western Germany. Barbed wire fences in a battlefield.
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