Opens showing maps of German and Japanese occupied territory during World War 2. Camera zooms in on the Japanese territory and shows points of Allied pressure against it during the war. Camera zooms in on German occupied areas and shows Allied pressure from The Atlantic and Mediterranean. View from above of formations of C-47 transport aircraft flying over water. (It may involve an invasion rehearsal, because the planes are not in D-Day stripes.) Formations of boats leaving long wakes as viewed from aircraft overhead. U.S. paratroopers relaxing inside a C-47 aircraft. They are alerted and don their helmets preparing to jump. Formation of C-46 Commando transport aircraft viewed from below. A paratrooper hooked up to a static line inside a transport plane. View from one of the aircraft in a formation dropping paratroopers over desert area. Their black chutes opening below the aircraft. Occasional white chutes seen. White parachutes seen from above as they descent toward agricultural land below.
Film opens showing air combat scenes from tun camera of several American fighter planes shooting down German warplanes. Some are high altitude encounters with aircraft leaving contrails as they fly. Gun camera views from American planes strafing German airfields and destroying aircraft on the ground. Strafing over lines of communication like roads, highways, canals and railroads. Locomotives struck and huge clouds of smoke issuing from them. Military fortifications being strafed and smoke rising. A huge explosion from a train being strafed. View from American fighter aircraft passing through ball of fire from explosion during strafing. Formation of American B-26 Marauder bombers flying through Flak clouds. One is seen flying level in flames. Another is seen from below. It is in D-Day striped paint and its left engine has been hit and partly torn off. Next, it is seen rolling over and headed down with flames and smoke coming from its left side.
D-Day + 7 on Iwo Jima during World War 2. View of Japanese wooden crate in debris and sea grass. A bottle of Saki sits next to it. A U.S. marine examines it closely and finds a wire connected to the crate (a booby trap). He cuts the wire, removes the bottle, and ties a red warning flag by the crate. Camera focuses on a wrecked Japanese 75mm wooden-wheeled mountain gun with several shells on the ground nearby, and then on the breech of, what appears to be a wrecked 10cm wooden-wheeled cannon with a shell in the sand next to it.
View from stern of Landing Craft Infantry, of Several Allied vessels underway near coast of England, as they begin voyage across the English Channel for the D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War 2. The Attack Transport ship, USS Samuel Chase, is seen from abeam her port side. A destroyer is steaming at her starboard. A U.S. Coast Guard 83-foot patrol boat of Rescue Flotilla One,is seen. She displays the number 6 on her bow and supercarriage and a skull and cross bones, as well.
Soldiers loaded in a Rhino Barge head towards the Omaha Beach in France for the preparations of D-Day invasion in Normandy during World War II. A soldier observes other ships using a binocular. German casualties on a stretcher taken from a Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP). LCT, LCI and LCM loaded with soldiers head for the beach.
Amphibious vehicles and warships head towards the Omaha Beach in France for the preparations of D-Day invasion in Normandy during World War II. Jeeps loaded with war material offload from a Landing Craft Vehicle (LCV). Soldiers look as the jeeps drive off the ramp of LCV. Other warfare materials loaded on the LCV unloaded by soldiers.
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