U.S. aircraft in flight over Sicily, Italy. Aerial view of coastline. Island of Sicily. Mountainous terrain. Aerial view of buildings. Countryside view. Mount Aetna.
American combat correspondents and photographers in Pacific Theater during Second World War. Close up of American flag flying over a U.S. military cemetery. A sailor kneels before a cross marking the burial site of a comrade. War correspondent types report on portable typewriter. Combat photographer loading film in his camera. Photographer developing film in dark room. Scene shifts to the event photographed, which is Japanese Lieutenant General Shunzaburo Mugikura, Commanding General, Japanese 31st Army, on board USS Portland (CA-33), signing document of surrender for the Japanese base at Truk, Caroline Islands, 2 September 1945.
Opening scene shows map of Greece, highlighting Athens, Samos and Leros. Views of wrecked boats and ships along a shore. Dead soldier lying near a gun position overlooking a town near shore below. German soldiers look at newspaper headline reading (in German) "British Sea base taken." German General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, World War 2 Commander of the operation, mingles with and congratulates ordinary German soldiers. Soldier looking over the island of Samos from a mountain. German soldier looking at large barrels on a pier. Closeup of a bottle of Greek Samos wine. German officers and soldiers drinking the wine. Soldiers cutting bananas from a large bunch carried by a local man. A long line of captured British soldiers and sailors marching under guard along a mountain road. Closeups of them passing the camera. The prisoners descending from a pier into large barges. Glimpse of an Indian colonial soldier among them. Large numbers of prisoners being marched under guard along a road in town.
U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain brings supplies to Dansalan airstrip during the attack mission on Malabang in Lanao del Sur Province of Philippines Island during World War II. C-47 Skytrain on the airstrip. A jeep with a trailer backs to a position beside the aircraft. Filipino guerrillas with the air support men load supplies from the aircraft to the jeep trailer. The jeep moves away with a few Filipino soldiers seated on the supplies. Men look on as the jeep moves. Few guerrillas transport gasoline drums from the aircraft to another jeep trailer. The C-47 Skytrain takes off from the airstrip. Few men watch the aircraft taking off.
A U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain lands on Malabang Airstrip during the attack mission on Malabang in Lanao del Sur Province in Philippines Island during World War II. C-47 Skytrain lands in the Malabang Airstrip. A man stands on the airstrip beside the aircraft. Fields in view surrounding the airstrip. The aircraft takes off from the airstrip. Captain Jarnigan of the 13th U.S. Army Air Forces Operations and a few guerrilla soldiers place banana stalk markers at the end of the airstrip.
A U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell aircraft dive bombs on Malabang during the attack mission in Lanao del Sur Province in Philippines Island in World War II. B-25 Mitchell aircraft dive bombs on target areas in Malabang in Lanao del Sur Province. The bombs being dropped by the aircraft explode and black smoke rises into the air over the fields. The aircraft in flight. A few soldiers near a radio jeep on the field. Lieutenant Kaudson briefs a few soldiers near the radio jeep for the next mission. Lieutenant Kaudson calls the command post on talkie. Soldiers with a guerrilla officer on the field. Bombs dropped by the B-25 aircraft explode. Thick black smoke rise into the air. The aircraft in flight in the sky.
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