U.S. Army Mountain troops at Camp Hale, United States Army Mountain Training Center, in Colorado, United States, during World War 2. The mountain troops assemble for a ski test. An officer briefs the team. The mountain troops standing in a line wear their skis. They come down a slope and cross trees in between. One of the trooper falls in the end. Narrator describes their ski test and their skiing.
Trained U.S. mountain troops in action in Colorado, United States. A dramatization shows two mountain troops looking through binoculars. They spot the Germans dismantling a gun. A troop informs an officer. A Nazi Battalion marching on a snow covered surface. United States mountain troops get into action. The two battalions fire at each other. U.S. troops get into a trench. Nazi troops fire at an American ski trooper coming down a slope. Snipers fire from behind trees. U.S. troops throw hand grenades. An explosion on a snow covered surface. U.S. troops capture German troops. The troops in winter gear climb uphill. (World War II period).
Prisoners of war (POW) held in custody by U.S. Army in North Africa, during World War 2. German troops of the Hermann Goering Division, some of which are wearing SS camouflage smocks, and Italian prisoners of war enter a U.S. Army processing station in North Africa. They stand with hands on their heads. U.S. soldiers inspect their identification tags. Several U.S. soldiers stand and converse.
Operation Torch (invasion of North Africa) during World War 2. View from stern of a British warship underway with setting sun behind. Several British sailors help a shipmate untangle himself from lines on the deck of ship. British, Free French, and American sailors line up for inspection on shore. A British launch, flying a white ensign, approaches and docks at Casablanca. The Allied Commanders of Operation Torch disembark. General Dwight D. Eisenhower (wearing 4 stars) is followed by British Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Allied Naval Commander of the Expeditionary Force (carrying a cane on his arm), and his deputy, Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, who planned the ground effort. Eisenhower pauses to greet American Naval officers (and he stumbles on pier planking). Eisenhower, Cunningham, and Ramsay, then enter a staff car and drive away.
A Japanese aircraft hit by tracer fire over the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The burning Japanese aircraft after being hit. The aircraft hit by machine gun fire and falling towards the water. Smoke from the aircraft. The aircraft being hit while in flight over water. Tracers going towards the aircraft. The aircraft in flames.
U.S. Navy ships underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2 for the invasion of Philippines. Twin 5 inch mounts firing up into the sky at Japanese enemy aircraft. Other guns fired from the ship. Flak in the sky. Tracers heading into sky. Crew loading and firing a gun. Japanese aircraft are hit. Dramatic hit of a Japanese aircraft that explodes and falls toward the sea as a bright fire ball trailing thick smoke.
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