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P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft attack enemy targets under Operation Strangle.

Map of Italy shows narrowest part of peninsula where U.S. and British armies are stationed. Map highlights Anzio and Cassino. A building on top of mountain. On island of Corsica, Lt Gen Ira C Eaker, commanding general of the Mediterranean Air Forces, Maj Gen John K Cannon, leader of the Twelfth Air Force, and Brig Gen Gordon Seville of the Twelfth Tactical Air Command, plan Operation Strangle. By animation the operation is explained where pilots of Fifty-Seventh Fighter Group is required to bomb behind enemy lines and cut off the transport of enemy supplies using the P-47 Thunderbolt. Shows destroyed bridges. P-47s taxi at airfield. P-47s parked in flight line. Crew chiefs in canopy of the plane and inspect other sections of plane. Pilots board planes. Planes take off from runway. P-47s in flight over sea, mountains and a castle. P-47s in flight behind squadron leader. P-47s in flight over clouds. P-47s peel off above the bridge. An incendiary bomb is dropped on a bridge. More bridges are bombed. Explosions on bridges. P-47 in flight over fields and railroad tracks. One train spotted. P-47 strafing moving trains. Trains explode. P-47 in flight over coastline and pilot in cockpit. P-47 strafing installations and ground targets. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 17 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051967
Recreational activities of U.S. airmen at Alto Air Base, Corsica.

Aircraft P-47s take off from Alto Air Base. Jeep loaded with men pulls away. Morning activities of airmen before mission. Men bathe in outdoor shower and get ready. A man gets hair cut. Sign reads 'Jerry's Clip Joint'. Man reads. Men on trailer truck. Men sing and dance. Men build clubhouses. A canal. Men on raft in water. Men go into sea at beach. Men sail in small boats. Men drink and fall in water. Men play outside a building. Men lie down at beach. A man sleeps. Man feeds puppies.

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051968
U.S. Army soldiers getting mails and an U.S. Army officer on an Observation Post relaying instructions.

Mail is loaded into cargo carrier which moves forward. Letters are distributed among U.S. Army soldiers. Few soldiers rest and read letters. U.S. Army officer looking through binoculars at forward Observation Post. Officer relays instructions to radio operator as a rifleman stands guard (World War II period).

Date: 1944, August 10
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039022
Allied convoy reaches Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy for the D-Day landings during World War II.

Allied convoy underway for the D-Day landings on Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy during World War II. British sailors on the deck of a ship. The convoy includes LSTs (Landing Ships Tank), LCIs (Landing Crafts Infantry), destroyers, battleships and rocket ships. The bow of a battleship shows British sailors. Convoy vessels with barrage balloons overhead. Omaha Beachhead shows Allied landing crafts and ships.

Date: 1944, June 9
Duration: 3 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061302
Allied troops and vehicles on a beachhead after the D-Day landings on Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy.

Allied troops on a beach after the D-Day landings on Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy during World War II. A sign on the side of a building at Omaha Beachhead reads 'Couseulles and Bayeux'. Allied troops and vehicles on the beachhead.

Date: 1944, June 9
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061303
British sailors unload supplies at a beachhead after the D-Day landings on Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy.

Allied troops on a beach after the D-Day landings on Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy during World War II. British sailors unload supplies at Omaha Beachhead. Soldiers climb a hill.

Date: 1944, June 9
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061304