Aircraft of the U.S. Army Air Forces Fighter Group operating at Alto Airbase, Corsica, in World War 2. P-47 aircraft of the 66th Fighter Squadron, comes down for landing. Pilot walking out on wing of a 64th Fighter Squadron P-47,named the "Lady Jane." He examines flak hole in the wing. Pilots at Red Cross coffee truck discuss recent mission. Red Cross girl in the background.
Location: Alto Airfield, Corsica, during World war 2. P-47aircraft, of 65th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group, on active dirt runway, after landing, turns off and spins about revealing the name "Hun Hunter XIV" painted on its fuselage. Pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert O. Wymond, Jr., shuts engine down, climbs out of cockpit, and walks to tail to examine combat damage in several places. Men stand by tent. Colonel Wymond signs 'Missing in Action' report. Man's hand putting spoonful of sugar in tin cup of coffee. Man drinks coffee and eats donut.
Activity at Alto Airbase, Corsica, during World War 2. Man with flight report standing by tent. Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert O. Wymond, Jr. of the 65th Fighter Squadron, standing on newly constructed floor, observes activity during construction of an Officers club. Two men are sawing wood. Others are nailing roof rafters in place. Flyers taking a break on raft supported by 55gallon drums, at beach area of Alto Air Base. They push one another into water and have fun on the raft.
U.S. infantry engaged in urban street fighting in World War 2. Allied troops fighting with German troops during Liberation of Paris. U.S. Army soldiers talk into radio before advancing. Soldiers with rifles crouch. Troops fire machine guns from windows of captured buildings. Tanks advance on street. French FFI citizen soldiers fire from upper stories of the building on enemy German trucks. French man throws a grenade from a window down to a truck with German troops in it. Truck explodes and Germany troops emerge from it, some on fire. Tanks advance under Eiffel Tower. Allied troops join French Forces of Interior. Scene changes to Aachen, Germany. Allied troops advance into Aachen. Soldier moves ahead. Sign reads 'Aachen'. Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels speaks at microphone. Wrecked buildings of Aachen as U.S. Army soldiers move through the city during a nine day period of urban combat. Smoke arises from streets. U.S. Army tanks advance on street. Soldiers fire from behind brick wall. Soldiers moves by a wrecked building. Soldiers firing mortars.
Allied naval guns firing at the French coast during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, during World War 2. Troops clamber down rope net, from their transport ship, into landing craft, headed toward Omaha beach. Rockets being fired from landing craft, LCT(R)s,above other landing craft. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 and B-24 bombers dropping bombs on enemy targets. Allied warships firing heavy guns on inland targets. U.S. troops landing on Omaha beach, making their way through shore obstacles and suffering under heavy German gunfire that rakes the beach. Several American soldiers seen falling to German gunfire. Allied boats and rafts adrift and men being rescued by comrades. Medics assisting wounded.
View of Omaha Beach,and Allied reinforcement and resupply operations following the D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Barrage balloons above the shoreline. Boats in the water, some sunken. Large supply ships and Landing Crafts tank (LCTs) moving Sherman tanks,armored vehicles, jeeps, trucks and equipment ashore. Wounded Allied soldiers being carried on litters to be ferried out to the larger ships. British Army soldiers holding their ears as they fire mortars. Scottish troops setting up outside Caen and exchanging mortar fire with German defenders. Scottish soldiers cleaning weapons. One with a pet cat. Scots soldiers crawling through grass and firing machine guns. Jeep with red cross carrying wounded on litters. Battle in city of Caen. Allied soldier carrying wounded comrade on his back. Medical dressing station set up in the city. MPs and medics tending to wounded. Army ambulance rushing wounded to field hospital behind the lines. Medical team performing surgery on wounded soldier. Narrator says they could not stop bleeding. View of dog tags on a white stake in the ground signifying burial spot for a dead soldier.
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