A German battleship sails in strong waves in the Norwegian Sea at start of Operation Zitronella during World War 2. German Kriegsmarine Navy lookouts survey the surroundings with binoculars, camera pans to show the waves. A destroyer sailing. Men in life-jackets on deck. A Kriegsmarine smokes his pipe on deck. Navy sailor in sunglasses smokes cigarette. View of the Norwegian sea with German destroyers and Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine on deck. A dinghy boat hanging above the waters. Captain on the battleship Tirpitz, Vice-Admiral Friedrich Karl Topp, surveys Spitsbergen through binoculars. Battleship Tirpitz and other destroyers sail near Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine on the gun turret of the Tirpitz are ready to fire (38 cm SK C/34 naval guns). Rounds fired towards Spitsbergen. Kriegsmarine men deploys a dinghy to the waters. Guns again fired on Spitsbergen. A dinghy with Kriegsmarine men deploys to the sea. Another round of fire towards the island again. A picket boat from a battleship prepares to sail. Another dinghy is deployed from a battleship. A German soldier gets into the dinghy. German soldiers climb down a steel ladder to get on a picket boat. A dinghy full of soldiers sails towards the island. More boats filled with soldiers deploy from the battleships towards the island. A dinghy sails away from a battleship. Spitsbergen island covered in smoke. Smoke coming from the sailing battleship firing more ammunition. German soldier in a life-jacket smiling and sticking his tongue out as his group sails towards the island. Boats approach Spitsbergen island. Soldiers get off their boats after landing on the island. the island. Soldiers tie three explosives on a post. German soldiers patrolling nearby as an explosion occurs. Boats filled with soldiers sail back to the battleships after they successfully seized the installations on the island. Soldiers in life-vests climb back to the battleships. Two German soldiers helped a comrade climb up to the battleship. A victorious German soldier smiles. German soldiers congratulates each other for the successful takeover of Spitsbergen. Battleships successfully sail with Spitsbergen in the background.
Camp area in Kiska, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Soldiers lay on ground. Foxholes in side of hill. Soldiers get hot coffee poured into cups and cook around fire in camp area. Caterpillar tractor and trailer move down stream. Soldiers march in single file along stream. (World War II period).
Private Snafu Title Sequence. Cartoon animation “Private Snafu” depicts living conditions for soldiers posted in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. A view of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. A Japanese soldier hops on the Aleutian Islands after emerging from the Pacific Ocean, only for a strong American soldier to stomp his feet when he opened “the backdoor to the United States”. Japanese soldier hops and dives back to the Pacific Ocean. View of Tokyo, Japan from the “Back door to the United States”. The cartoon depicts how harsh and challenging the environment in Aleutian Islands- having rain, snow, thunder and whirlwind gales. A seal resembling The Great Schnozzola (Jimmy Durante) replies with the Lower East Side accent, “Nevertheless, that’s the conditions that prevail.” View of a GI camp in the Aleutian Islands. Private Snafu sets out on an important mission, he changes his outfit according to weather. View of the vegetation of the Aleutian Islands, only grass in the tundra environment. After the narrator stated, “There are no trees”, a rabbit replied sarcastically “You’re telling me!”. United States Army Camp in Aleutian Islands covered in thick, gummy, mud. A serviceman is riding on two servicemen submerged in the mud. Inside a Quonset hut, American soldiers are playing dice. An earthquake rattles the Quonset hut and changes the position of the dice. Strong winds in the Aleutian Islands uproot Quonset huts, military installations and even the mountains. Soldiers struggle walking through a “Williwaw” (or strong winds in the Aleutian Islands) until it stopped, causing the soldiers to fall to the ground and the eggs a soldier was carrying to break. Private Snafu walks in the Aleutian Islands through different weather conditions in different outfits. Soldier drives a military jeep with skis in the snow. A cartoon B-17 covered in snow as it flies above the Aleutian Islands. An Eskimo sits around an ice fishing hole in the snow-covered B-17 wing. Private Snafu is wearing a steam whistle as he walks. Private Snafu changes his outfits according to weather condition while walking. Airmen run out of the Briefing Hut and dive in the watery air strip. Private Snafu dons a scuba diving suit to retrieve a B-17 submerged in the watery air strip. Private Snafu inside aircraft with fish. Private Snafu ejects the fish out of the aircraft. The fish activates a parachute to fall safely, only for it to drop into the gaping maw of the Schnozzola seal. The Schnozzola seal repeats his earlier dialogue to describe life in the Aleutian Islands.
A training film titled 'The Kwajalein Operations' on the operations of U.S. forces on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands during World War II. A map locates islands in the Pacific Ocean. Animation depicts the area invaded by U.S. forces. The Gilbert Islands, the Solomon Islands, Midway Island, Tarawa and other islands located on the map. U.S. lines of communication on various islands. Kwajalein Atoll on the map. The atoll is selected as a base for U.S. forces. It is selected because of various benefits which would prove useful during the invasion of the Marshall Islands. Bases and installations on Kwajalein Atoll.
Volcanic eruption during the birth of the Surtsey island located near Geirfuglasker island on the Vestmanneayjar island, Iceland. Smoke and steam rise as lava spews from volcano. Wing of an aircraft while in flight. Chain of islands. Lava erupts out of the volcano. Black mass is spewed up discoloring the pure white steam momentarily. Black mass falls in water. Large steam cloud covers entire island. Turbulence along edges during eruption. An opening in center of a steam cloud. Wing of aircraft seen while in flight. A chain of island.
A film titled' Icebreaker' about the journey of the icebreaker, USS Burton Island (AGB-1) to King Island, Alaska as a part of U.S. Navy annual winter ice reconnaissance program. Skyline of San Diego, California as the USS Burton Island leaves the harbor. Ship underway at sea. Crew member securing items on deck. Commander Everett A. Trickey, U.S.N, Captain of the ship works on a map. Animated map shows the route taken by the USS Burton Island to reach King Island. Helmsman steers the wheel of the ship. Ship underway at rough sea. Water washes over the deck of the ship.
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