Shows construction of road in Burma.Natives cross suspended footbridge. Trucks,trailers and tractors cross a US-constructed bridge.Indian laborers load gravel on trucks from a chute. Trucks dump the gravel on the ground and laborers spread it to construct new roads.Shows laborers tossing gravel from a river bed into truck. A jeep speeds along by a newly constructed road. Truck passes by a sign on the road saying 'To Tokyo'.25 january 1943.
The role of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in the United States Army during World War II. In January 1943, the first posting of WAAC enlisted personnel overseas, was to Algiers. Women disembark a ship. WAAC women walk with orphan children into a convent. A WAAC woman washes utensils; others dry clothes. WAAC women arrive in Scotland and get trained. Women visit India. Women at the Taj Mahal in Agra. Women visit New Delhi. Women on camels in Cairo. Women disembark a ship in Europe. Two women adjust a tent. Woman washes her hair and clothes using her helmet. Women inside a tent. Woman checks injured soldiers. Nurses in hospital as they look after soldiers. Women march. A woman pays homage to the female soldiers who sacrificed their life in war. Soldiers carry another injured soldier on stretcher. Officers check injured women in hospital. Women in uniform march.
Axis Forces collapse in Tunisia, North Africa during the World War II. British General Montgomery reviews Australian and New Zealand troops. Tanks and infantry of the British 8th Army move forward. A man looks through a pair of binoculars. A map. Aircraft of the British and American Allied Forces drop bombs on Axis positions. Allied tanks. Ground views of Allied artillery fired at night with bright flashes and explosions on March 20, 1943. British soldiers fire artillery. Rubble everywhere. Soldiers of Indian Division advance during battle. U.S. Army troops enter Sened and U.S. tanks advance through Maknassy. British and American generals view battlefield, including U.S. Army General Patton. British armor advances. 8000 German soldier Prisoners of War led away Mareth line collapses on March 28. Allied tanks and troops pass abandoned and destroyed German equipment. British royal engineers repair roads damaged by retreating German army. Allied Forces planes in flight. Navy ships. War equipment and supplies are loaded onto a ship deck. U.S. tanks and infantry. A warm reception of the victorious commanders. British fleet shells the coast. An Axis plane shot down. General Montgomery and Free French officers cheered by Muslems in Tunisia. General Montgomery lays a wreath during a ceremony. Small group of American soldiers looking to join up with their larger unit greet a group of Gurkha soldiers from Nepal (British Indian Army) on their way.
Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in Upper New York Bay. Aerial view of ships in New York Harbor. An airplane in flight. Airplane is flying over the New York Bay and the skyscrapers and tall buildings of the Manhattan skyline. Aerial view of New York harbor. 'Police' can be seen written on the aircraft.
Volcanic eruption and creation of island of Japan. Glimpse of map of Japan. Gardens and rivers. Two men demonstrate samurai sword techniques. Japanese soldiers advance through smoke carrying rising sun flag. Chinese suffering under Japanese military occupation. Two executed with rifles. Japanese soldiers waving weapons and red ball flags. A DC-3 aircraft flying over a Japanese Pagoda. Vies of Old Japan. Farmers at work. One manually turning a water pump with his feet. A man using a pole to propel a boat. Modern methods adopted in Japan for terraced farming. Japanese building railroads. Japanese modern locomotive on South Manchurian Railway. in 1934. A Japanese twin engine bomber taking off. The Japanese ocean liner, Asama Maru, in the 1930s. Glimpse of numerous ships in Tokyo harbor. Western style architecture in modern Tokyo buildings. Neon lights on the Grand Palace Hotel and other establishments in Tokyo. Industrial smoke stacks. Women at work in a silk factory. Finished product stamped "Made in Japan."Steel ingots being made in a Japanese steel mill using scrap iron imported from the U.S.A. Chinese victims of 2nd Sino-Japanese War. Japanese troops on parade. Dead American Marines on shore of Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific in World War 2, killed in battle. Japanese high ranking officers reviewing troops on parade. Japanese warships underway. Troops parading beneath the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. American B-25 bombers on flight deck of the USS Hornet, headed to bomb Tokyo.A crew of Doolittle's Raiders standing by their plane. B-25 taking off from the Hornet. Formation of B-25s in flight. View from bomber of smoke rising from bombing of Tokyo below. Brigadier General Jimmie Doolittle pledging to repeat bombing of Tokyo. Supply train entering a Boeing Company defense plant. United States war production workers being scrutinized as they enter the facility and punching in at a time clock. Poster in the plant picturing a B-29 bomber aircraft on a message in German describing it as an instrument for a "Destruction Battle against the Luftwaffe." Bold letters, above, in English read: "They're Promised-Let's Deliver 'em!" And, below, the words: "B-29, Super Bombers." Slabs of aluminum sheets fill a factory room. Overhead traveling cranes move them. Workers in airplane manufacturing and assembly plant use heat and brakes to shape the aluminum sheets. Multiple views of the aluminum being machined and stamped to specifications. Wings being fabricated. Relatively unskilled labor using jigs to perform the work. Woman war worker operating an overhead crane moving a wing in the plant. Views of plane parts moving across the ceiling via cranes. Women workers driving rivets into wings. Men and women employees working inside fuel fuel compartments of wings. A floor full of engine nacelles. A floor full of 2200 HP radial engines. A skeleton nose section being fabricated. Midsections and bomb bays being assembled. Workers crawling through the airframe during aircraft assembly. A woman working on a connecting tunnel. Sub-assemblies made by contractors arriving at the plant. More views of Boeing employees including young, old, men, and women, at work in the plant.
View of New York City skyline in the United States. Statue of Liberty situated on Liberty Island. Cruise ships, ferry boats and sail boats are seen moving near the statue and near lower Manhattan. Some of the scenes appear to be dawn or dusk with the city skyline more dark.
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