Soviet forces East of the Vistula River, attack district of Praga, on eastern outskirts of Warsaw, Praga, Poland on their way to the city of Warsaw, during World War 2. View of Soviet Colonel-General Vasily Kazakov and his staff studying charts of the area. Nighttime view of Soviet artillery and rocket fire. Fires blazing and knocked out German tanks. Formation of Soviet Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik aircraft in flight. Bombs exploding on the ground. Anti-aircraft guns firing. A nearby explosion raising a huge amount of earth into the air. IS-2 / JS-2 (Josef Stalin) heavy tanks moving across smoke-filled terrain amidst explosions from German shells. Soviets operating captured German Panther tanks. Soviet infantry moving past barbed wire and attacking on the ground. Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky (wearing large Marshal's star) and accompanied by a Lieutenant-general (two-star) is seen conversing with Colonel-General Vasily Kazakov at the local Soviet headquarters. Closeup of Marshal Rokossovsky, smoking a cigar in a holder. View of distance smoke rising from town. Scene shifts to Soviet armor and machine gunners engaged in urban building-to-building battles. Armor and infantry elements of the First Polish Army (Berling's) operating with the Soviets, are seen entering Praga, as inhabitants cheer them.
United States Army Boeing B-29 Superfortress air raid over Japan during World War II. A map shows target area in Japan. View of destroyed buildings and harbor in Japan. Japanese crowds in streets of Yawata, Japan. B-29 is displayed. Diagram of new B-29 bomber shows its dimensions and scenes of B-29 in flight.
U.S. Marine Corps Sikorsky HRS-1 helicopters of HMR-161 Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron, First Marine Air Wing, transport troops and supplies during the Korean War. The USMC 'HR 2' flies over mountains. Marine sitting in open doorway of the chopper, in flight.. It lands among Marines at a mountainous outpost. U.S. Marines, in combat gear,leave the helicopter. They unload the helicopter and carry equipment away. Helicopters number 'HR 10' and "HR 11" landing with troops aboard. U.S. Marines leave the helicopters and proceed single file to their assigned positions. Marines unpacking supplies. They dig trench and set up a machine gun. Marines unpacking ammunition boxes, flares (Trip.M48), and hand grenades.
French paratroops preparing to board JU-52 (Amiot AaC 1 Toucan) trimotor transport aircraft for an air drop. Puppy dog mascot seen amongst their packs. They board the aircraft. Views of French paratroops descending from the JU-52 tromotor aircraft, and landing in a field in Indochina.
Supplies are parachuted to French troops battling Viet Minh in Diên Biên Phu. A bulldozer is air dropped using five parachutes, on November 21, 1953. A French fighter bomber dives low over a Viet Minh position. French troops fire field artillery piece. Smoke rises all around the battlefield. French infantry fight their way up a wooded hillside (many trees broken from combat effects). They fire small arms and mortars. They cook over open fires. Aerial view of French encampment at Diên Biên Phu, in February, 1954, with smoke rising from many small fires.
Arrival of units of 7th Australian Division at an air field in Nadzab, New Guinea. A C-47 plane lands at Nadzab airfield. Planes and units of 7th Australian Division on the airfield. The troops unload the plane. The C-47 takes off. Troops disembark from the plane and unload supplies. The plane is in flight. At the airfield the troops unload the planes. A soldier erects a direction board which reads 'Assembly Area' and another soldier holds a direction board which reads 'Transit Camp'. A C-47 takes off. Planes and soldiers at the airfield. (World War II period).
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