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Film describing the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, comprising Americans of Japanese ancestry, in World War II.

Film opens showing relatives of fallen American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who made the ultimate sacrifice in the European theater of operations, during World War 2. The dead soldiers were members of the United states 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The relatives are assembled in an auditorium at a military installation in Hawaii, where the 100th Infantry is conducting a ceremony honoring their fallen heroes.Camera pans over some of the relatives. Decorations for valor are presented posthumously to some of the surviving relatives. A widow receives the Silver Star. A father receives the Distinguished Service Cross. A mother receives her son's award. Film shifts to scenes showing artillery batteries of the 100th Infantry in action at numerous battles in the Italian Campaign, including Naples, Cassino, Rapido River, Pisa, Anizo and others during World War 2. A column of 100th Infantry accompanied by armor, are seen entering Livorno, Italy. Members in a jeep are seen passing through area of complete destruction. Others pick their way through rubble, as civilians bass the opposite way,carrying salvaged belongings, Troops of the 100th move cautiously and deploy near barricades to shield from snipers. They escort captured German prisoners. Battle casualties are seen being carried into field hospitals. A medical team performing emergency surgery inside a tent. Wounded and convalescing patients being tended by a woman Army nurse. Others recovering outside tents at the field hospital. A group of 100th infantry troops taking a break. One of their medics is interviewed. Gunners seen with Browning M1917 machine gun. Troops preparing a meal in the field. A soldier presenting paper airplanes to Italian children who fly them. M4 Sherman tank parked on Italian street. Battalion members attending a Roman Catholic mass in the field. Army interviewer asks a Japanese-American Lieutenant why he fights in the U.S. Army. He responds saying "I'm fighting over here for the better things of life, and to preserve the American way of living."

Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072896
German troops advance under shellfire on a battlefield in the European Theater during World War I.

German troops on a battlefield in the European Theater during the First World War. German troops in World War 1 advancing under shell fire, as seen from photographer position on a high ridge overlooking the battlefield. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment.

Date: 1917
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051024
Allied soldiers read and relax at YMCA clubroom in European Theater during World War I.

American Army soldiers sit around a table and talk. Some World War 1 U.S. Army soldiers read books and papers at YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) clubroom, books stacked in shelves in the background. Three officers sit around a table and play a card game as others read and go through books. A folded American flag in the background.

Date: 1917
Duration: 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048746
Germans resort to poison gas warfare in European Theater during World War I.

Events during World War I. A newspaper headline reads ' Germans start gas warfare '. German soldiers wear gas masks and one of them puts a shell in artillery piece. German soldiers fire artillery.

Date: 1917
Duration: 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048807
British soldiers rush about on ship after it is hit by torpedo underway in the European Theater during World War I.

British troops fight against Germans in Europe during World War I. A German submarine underway. View of torpedo being fired from U-boat at a British ship in Atlantic Ocean or North Sea. Dramatic footage of large explosion aboard the target ship as the torpedo impacts. Fire and smoke seen on ship. Fire continues to surge upward even as ships stern is sunken and bow is rapidly approaching sinking underwater. Footage, some appears authentic and some possibly dramatized, of British sailors aboard a ship under attack and on fire. The sailors running on board the ship. View of ship rolling over and sinking.

Date: 1917
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068362
British destroyers fire and German ship sinks in the European Theater during World War I

British troops fight against Germans during World War I. Destroyers underway at sea. British flag on the destroyer ship in North Sea. Destroyers fire. Destroyers approach a harbor. Men on boat at sea. Men on destroyers give signal. A British destroyer vessel sinks. Man observes through periscope of a submarine. Men fire on another ship from a destroyer. The German ship sinks in sea. The later section of this clip illustrates the destruction of a U-boat by a British Q-ship - a merchantman with hidden armament where a submarine surfaced, a "dummy crew" abandons ship, and the naval gunners then bring out the guns and sink the U-boat

Date: 1917
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068363
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