People celebrate Liberation of Greece by Allied Forces in Athens, Greece during World War II. The British battleships underway. The British troops aboard a ship in the foreground. The troops disembark the ship at Athens port. The troops march in a squad. The troops marching. British troops greeted by civilians. The civilians crowd at Syntagma Square. The crowd cheer and hold banners. The troops celebrate liberation at Syntagma Square. The British troops lined up. The Greek Parliament Building. Premier of Greece Andreas Papandreou pays wreath to the unknown soldiers. The soldiers stand in formation. A view of the city. The soldiers holding flags of Greece, march. The soldiers stand in formation. Premier Papandreou hoists the flag. A soldier in the foreground salutes. The civilians salute as the flag is hoisted. A view of the city.
U.S. Marines capture Palau Island during World War II. U.S. Marines advance on the Palau Island. The Marines fire guns. Smoke rises in the background. The Marines load guns and fire the gun. Shells kept in the background. The Marines get off from the landing crafts. The marines fire. A Marine sprays liquid fire in a Japanese foxhole. The Japanese troop runs. The U.S. Marines shoot the troops. The dead Japanese troop. The Marines fire and advance. The Marines blow up a cave. The captured Japanese soldiers walk with their hands up.
Hindu Leader Mahatma Gandhi meets Muslim Leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah to remove differences between Hindus and Muslims in India. A building in view. Muslim Leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah greets Hindu Leader Mahatma Gandhi. People crowd in the background. Men take pictures. The leaders talk to each other. Dignitaries stand outside a building. Gandhiji holds a paper in his hands leaves. He speaks to a dignitary.
U.S. Army Air Forces Generals Ira Clarence Eaker and Nathan Farragut Twining visit Ploiesti or Ploesti oil fields in Romania during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces Generals Ira Clarence Eaker and Nathan Farragut Twining get off from an aircraft at an airfield. The Generals greeted by Romanian Army Air Force officers. General Eaker and General Twining, escorted by the Romanian officers, visit the Ploiesti oil storage tanks after being bombed by the U.S. Army Air Forces. The wreckage at the oil fields. The bombed tanks. The Generals talk. A view of the bombed Ploesti oil fields.
U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur's heralded return to the Philippines during World War II. A U.S. Task Force underway to attack the island of Leyte. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, seated between U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Theodore Stark "Ping" Wilkinson and Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, Commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet, aboard the Task Force Flagship, U.S. Cruiser, USS Nashville (CL-43) en route to Leyte. Animated map describes the Leyte campaign. General MacArthur standing on the Nashville, smoking his signature corn cob pipe. U.S. warships bombarding the Island. U.S. troops of the 24th Infantry Division and 1st Cavalry Division assault the beach from landing craft, as General MacArthur and his Chief of Starr, Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland, watch from the Nashville. After the beachhead is secured, General MacArthur and President Osmena, of the Philippines, shake hands. MacArthur wades ashore from a landing craft accompanied by President Omena and an entourage of high ranking officers. U.S. troops are seen wading ashore from LSTs. One is numbered 474. Scenes ashore. A water buffalo. Wrecked Japanese tanks. Filipino inhabitants emerging to begin clearing debris away from what is left of their homes. Damaged buildings in Tacloban, .the Provincial Capital of Leyte. Filipino inhabitants gathered under a tent, smiling. President Osmena speaking from the steps of the Provincial Capital building, with General MacArthur and his entourage standing behind.
101st Detachment of Karen troops in Chaungtha, Burma during World War II. Karen troops pull a cart on a pontoon bridge. The troops haul cart across the bridge. A Burmese native on an ox cart. He pulls away the oxen from the cart. The man takes the oxen across the bridge. Few of the U.S. soldiers with ox carts moving along a narrow muddy jungle road. T hey get off from the carts. The troops moving in carts.
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