A harbor in Alexandria, Egypt is used as a base for operations by Maritime Section during World War II. Greek ship Caique is used by U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Taylor for smuggling arms and food into small Greek islands. Caique ship underway with soldiers and Chief of Maritime Operations Lieutenant Colonel Taylor on board.
Radio tower at Huckstep Station inside Camp Huckstep near Cairo, Egypt in World War 2. Radio operator trainees assigned as base station operators takes notes and key messages while wearing headphones. OSS agent trainees step outside car to set up radio. A radio operator puts on headset to receive message. An OSS agent trainee wearing parachute harness is dragged through dirt to simulate parachute landing in a course dubbed, "arrival." Students practice falling to simulate parachute landings as well as body position during parachute drop.
United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) agents relaying reports via radio to high command in Egypt during World War II. Animated map shows radio waves from the Balkan region reaching Cairo. Radio towers at Huckstep station inside Camp Huckstep. Radio operators pick up radio signals in control room. A radio operator takes message to his colleague. High command officers deliberate plans in Europe before a large map. United States Army Air Force 15th Bombing Command bombardiers and pilots attend a briefing with officer pointing to maps. Ground control radio operator gives commands at air field. United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers taxiing and then taking off from airfield, including one dubbed, "Ready, Willing, and Able" and another named "Strawberry Bitch." Bombers in formation overhead. Close up of a hand of bombardier pushing bomb release button to drop bombs. Close up view of bombs dropping out of open bomb bay of B-24. View of bombs dropping over what narrator claims to be a Balkan city. Aerial view shows thick smoke covering the bomb sites.
Lieutenant General Eisenhower and British Admiral Cunningham inspect British battleships of the Mediterranean Fleet in Alexandria, Egypt, during World War 2. Eisenhower boards a ship, is greeted, and climbs ladder to view various parts of the ship. Eisenhower and Cunningham discuss amongst themselves.
United Nations leaders meet to pledge support against the Axis Powers. Pyramids in Cairo, Egypt. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ; British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek on chairs. Dignitaries behind them. Madame Chiang confers with Churchill. A meeting of the United Nations leaders in Tehran, Iran. President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Joseph Stalin, Premier of Soviet Russia and the diplomatic representatives of the free nations present. President Roosevelt introduces Sara Churchill, the daughter of Churchill, to Stalin. Stalin shakes hands with Sara. The Sword of Stalingrad is presented to Stalin as a gift from the King of Britain to the people of Stalingrad. Marshall Stalin accepts the sword on the behalf of the people of Russia. The leaders pose with dignitaries standing behind them. (World War II period).
U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt with Prime Minister of Britain Winston Churchill at the Sphinx in Egypt, and later, at a meeting with Turkey's President Mustafa Ismet Inonu. Later President Roosevelt reviews 7th Army in Sicily, from a jeep. He is accompanied by General Eisenhower, who sits in back of jeep next to Presidential Assistant, Harry Hopkins. President Roosevelt decorates General Mark Clark and five of his officers. General Clark receives the Distinguished Service Cross A man takes photographs. Seventh Army Troops march past. President Roosevelt and General Eisenhower eat a picnic lunch in a staff car with the doors open. President Roosevelt seated with his sons, Elliot and Franklin, Jr.
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