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African American soldiers engaged on all fronts in World War 2

Film opens with map of the world showing the various theaters of operation in World War II. Narrator refers to Allies liberating town after town, as they advance. View of American troops being welcomed in a European town during an advance (probably Italy in 1944). Next, African American troops are seen boarding troop transport ships. A huge convoy of ships is seen from the air. Huge piles of war materiel on a dock. Ammunition being delivered by landing craft from the transport ship USS Hunter Liggett (APA-14) to American troops at a beachhead in the Pacific. An African American sailors directs the lowering of a piece of artillery from a ship into a landing craft. Construction equipment being used to clear the way for a new landing field. Docks, roads, and bridges being built as the Allies advance. American troops in the swamps of the South Pacific. American Army engineers clearing trees to build the Alaska Highway (ALCAN Highway) in 1942. Corps of Engineers building the Ledo Road (from India to China) during the war. African American soldiers building a bridge across a river in Europe. A U.S. Army truck under fire, driving along a dirt road in Europe as shells burst all around it. U.S. troops firing various kinds of field artillery and tank guns. U.S. infantryman using a flame thrower. Closeup of African American soldier using a bayonet and others firing small arms. A tank being blown up by artillery fire. A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero aircraft maneuvers overhead in the Pacific theater. An African American soldier runs to man his Browning .50-caliber, water-cooled antiaircraft machine gun, and begins firing as the Zero fighter plane strafes his position. Closeup of Japanese pilot in his cockpit and his machine guns firing from leading edges of his plane. His rounds strike all around the U.S. gunner, who turns and follows him with more fire. His tracers show behind the plane. Closeup of the African American gunner as he continues firing. View of the Japanese airplane rolling over and diving. Next the Japanese plane, aflame, crashes on a tropical island and explodes. (Note: It is apparent that some of these combat scenes have been made up of clips from other sources, edited into this film.) (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Location: European Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077359
A U.S. aircraft of VIII Fighter Command chases an enemy fighter plane in the European Theater during World War II.

An enemy fighter is chased by a U.S. aircraft of VIII Fighter Command piloted by Lieutenant Colonel D.C. Schilling of 62nd Squadron. The aircraft chases the enemy fighter aircraft on 21st September, 1944.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047635
U.S. aircraft of VIII Fighter Command and 63rd Squadron strafes a German Heinkel He 115 torpedo bomber in the European Theater.

A German seaplane is attacked by a U.S. aircraft of VIII Fighter Command piloted by Lieutenant Colonel Gabreski of 63rd Squadron. A German Heinkel He 115 torpedo bomber (seaplane) reconnaissance is being attacked by a 63rd Squadron plane on 9th April, 1944. Smoke rises from the target. (World War II period).

Location: European Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047637
A number of casualties in the year 1944 during World War 2

A large number of casualties as a result of World War II. War continues with artillery fired in Belgium, a ship underway in Atlantic, a wounded in Pacific Theater and a graveyard.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058482
British air force and navy raid targets of Japanese in Pacific Theater and Germans on European Front, during World War II.

Allied air force and navy raid Japanese targets in the Pacific Theater and German positions on the European Front, during World War II. British aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean. Airmen and sailors aboard attach bombs and prepare planes for a raid on Japan. Planes take off from the strip of carrier one after the other. Navigator makes plans for returning the planes. The planes land on the strip after completing the mission. Large guns on the ships. British 8th Air Force raids Nazi supply lines on the European Front. Immense smoke rises by the bombs dropped on Nazi positions. A German fighter plane shot in air by Allied warplane.

Location: Indian Ocean
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056372
U.S. gun camera footage of American fighter firing at German bomber and fighter during World War II.

U.S. Army Air Forces VIII Fighter Command Operation in the European Theater during World War 2. Gun camera footage from P-47 (or possibly a P-51) flown by Maj. Crossen from 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group. He attacks German Junkers JU 88 bomber and a Focke Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft. (Note: The 355th Fighter Group transitioned into P-51s from P-47s during Spring of 1944)

Location: European Theater
Date: 1944, March 27
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055415
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