Strafing and bombing of Japanese installations in the Pacific Theater by U.S. aircraft during World War II, as seen via gun camera footage from U.S. Aircraft. Aerial view of the target area. Smoke rises from the ground. Parked Japanese aircraft in a field are strafed. Smoke rises from the area.
Gun camera footage shot from U.S. aircraft from the USS Bennington (CV-20), attacking Japanese port targets in Kure and Nagoya Japan. Aerial view of the target area. The dockside buildings are strafed. A small freighter underway at sea is attacked and a hangar building is hit.
A film on U.S. Army air-sea rescue operations. A U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft in flight over water. Crew at controls of the aircraft. Number 1 engine is feathered. Then, number 4 engine fails and is feathered. View from behind shows the B-17 descending with all four engines feathered. (Some of these scenes probably employed models.) Crew members in the aircraft. A wireless operator sets a key at automatic SOS. Crew preparing for ditching. The aircraft ditching in the water.Crew evacuates from the ditched aircraft in 6-man life rafts. They employ their various survival gear, including Gibson Girl radio with balloon-mounted antenna, signal mirrors, fishing gear, dye marker, and smoke flares. They are spotted by an Army Air-Sea rescue Douglas A-24 aircraft. The aircraft reports their position and a rescue boat is dispatched to their location. They are reached by U.S. Army air sea rescue boat, number P-249 (An 85 foot, wooden, gas- powered boat, built by Eddy Ship Building, Bay City, Michigan). Crewmen are taken aboard and given refreshments.
Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Russia during World War II. The meeting was also codenamed the Argonaut Conference. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in British uniform removes his hat as he enters the Livadia Palace. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in a uniform enters the palace along with Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrei Vyshinsky, Pavlov and Russian diplomat Andrei Gromyko. Allied leaders seated around a table at the conference, including: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius (on Roosevelt's right), Harry Hopkins (seated away from the table behind Roosevelt's right shoulder), Roosevelt's chief diplomatic advisor Alger Hiss (on Roosevelt's right), Roosevelt confidant James F. Byrnes, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Permanent Under Secretary to Foreign Secretary Alexander Cadogan, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Ambassador Pavalov (primary English translator for Stalin), Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrey Vishinsky, Andrei Gromyko, Ivan Maisky, and Ambassador Gusiev. Also seen seated at a table: U.S. Army General George C. Marshall, U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest King, President Franklin Roosevelt, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union W. Averell Harriman.
Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Russia during World War II. Officials arrive for the conference. Three Allied leaders seated around a table at the conference. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin at the desk. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, James F. Byrnes, Harry Hopkins and Alger Hiss seated at the table. The officials around the conference table. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill discuss at the table. Stalin talks to People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov and U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union W. Averell Harriman.
Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Russia during World War II. Officials arrive for the conference. A sedan arrives at the conference building. U.S. Army officers enter the building. Other cars arrive and navy representatives enter the building. U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius.
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