British Spitfire fighters take off from a convoy of Allied ships to attack German aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Men aboard an aircraft carrier. British Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter planes are parked onboard the aircraft carrier. A naval officer gives out order to fire at enemy. A British soldier adjusts a rocket artillery into position. RAF Supermarine Spitfire fighter planes take off from the aircraft carrier to attack U-boats. Explosions occur at sea. German Heinkel 111 bomber aircraft dropping bombs. A Nazi plane shot down. Smoke rises from the coast. Fleet of aircraft carriers underway at sea. Spitfire fighters come in for landing. Mechanics push the Spitfire fighter into place.
General Douglas MacArthur speaks to Allied paratroopers before their landing in Markham Valley, New Guinea. Paratroopers briefed with the help of a map. Paratroopers look at Tommy guns and other weapons. Equipment loaded onto a truck. Paratroopers loaded onto a military truck move to the airbase. Planes lined up at the base. Men put on their combat gear and board the aircraft. Aircraft in flight. Paratroopers jump and descend at Markham Valley. Planes in flight as parachutes descend during the first mass parachute jump in Southwestern Pacific. (World War II period).
Field Marshal Smuts visits Cairo. Field Marshal Jan Smuts along with Lord and Lady Hiller at the British Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. He holds Lord Hiller's son and takes a walk with the family. Smuts at a parade ground where he delivers a Christmas message to soldiers. He reviews a parade. Soldiers march past the Field Marshal. (World War II period).
Elephants used by Allies during World War II. In Burma elephant pulls a log of wood. A mahout tries to get on the back of an elephant as he stands on its teeth. Elephant pulls a log of wood. Elephants push a wooden log up a ramp and load it onto a carrier. A baby elephant and its mother at work in the jungle. Two elephants pull and push an Australian Bofors gun up the steep slope of a hill as Australian forces of the British empire guide the effort
PT boats patrol transport area in the Atlantic Ocean before the invasion of France during World War II. A United States PT (Patrol) boat underway in the Atlantic. A man on the bridge looks through binoculars with an American flag in background. Men at 50 caliber machine gun and another one at 20 mm gun. Guns fired. Men aboard a PT boat signal semaphore. A man from a torpedo boat signals semaphore.
PT boats patrol transport area in the Atlantic Ocean before the invasion of France during World War II. A man aboard a PT (patrol) boat wearing a life jacket. Allied battleship fires. Smoke in the background. PT boat comes along side another vessel with men aboard the boat.
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