The Allies mount an amphibious landing in North Africa. U.S. ships underway at sea. The Germans attack the ships. The mast of a ship. German prisoners carry their luggage and board a ship en route to a prison camp. They climb up a ladder. A German tank. Shells on a field. Nazi soldiers around a tank. (World War II period).
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the Congress in Washington DC during World War II . The U.S. Capitol building. The U.S. flag in the foreground. New Congress members wave. Congress men seated in a hall. Roosevelt speaks into a microphone and addresses the Congress. He gives a speech on hope and courage.
U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt launches the new aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10), successor to the earlier Yorktown (CV-5) lost in the battle of Midway during World War 2. The First Lady holds a bouquet and talks to an officer. People crowd at a shipyard for the launch and cheer. The ship begins to move down the ways prematurely, so Mrs. Roosevelt has to hurry with the Christening. View of the ship going down the ways and entering the water, at the Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard in Virginia.
An Allied Military Government headquarters building in Naples, Italy during World War II. People crowd on either side of streets. Vehicles drive on a road. The Italians crowd to apply for jobs. U.S. engineers repair water facilities. Water tanks near a bay. Two engineers put a hose in water. Men and women carry water containers and walk on a road. An aircraft lands at an airfield. Commander of the U.S. 5th Army General Mark Wayne Clark arrives. Allied 5th Army units march northward. A landing craft arrives at a shore. Troops get off from the craft. A soldier in the foreground gives a signal. The troops fire artillery. A wrecked aircraft at an airfield. Nazi German prisoners embark a transport ship for prison camps. The prisoners aboard the ship.
Lumberjacks in a Canadian forest cut Douglas fir. A luberjack man cuts a tree with an axe. Men use axes for cutting tress. The trees fall. Many views of giant trees crashing to the ground after they are cut. A railroad train loaded with logs cross a bridge. The logs are dropped in a river for transport. The workers walking on floating logs in the water work to send the logs down the river to saw mills so they can be cut into lumber for use in the war effort during World War 2.
Italian fliers land their aircraft at an Allied occupied air base (probably in Southern Italy) to join the Allies for the war against Nazi Germany during World War II. A three-engine Italian Savoia-Marchetti bomber in flight. The aircraft lands at the airfield. Other aircraft parked on the airfield. A hangar in the background. Italian fliers step from the aircraft. U.S. and Italian officer exchange greetings. Aircraft in formation. Italian fighter aircraft land and taxi at the air base. Officers and fliers. The fliers leave their aircraft. Italian fliers seated around a table eat American meal.
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