Activities aboard Attack Transport Ship (APA) underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Three crew members seated, one looks at a book, the other two talk. A marine under a small piece of canvas on the deck reads a book. Crewman in cap and dungarees, wearing a headset, sits as lookout. Two crewmen dressed in loud shirts (for Equator-crossing Pollywog Initiation) invite another to sit for a haircut. He tells them to take off only a little, and sits in the chair. The would-be barber places a cloth around the initiate's neck and begins soaping his head with a shaving brush and mug.
A Russian film titled 'Srazhenie Za Gomel' about the Russian campaign along the Belorussian front that liberated Gomel Belarus from German occupation during World War 2. Views of landscape of Belarus including trees, lake and forest. Cut down tree logs piled in field. Map shows position of Gomel. Artillery fired in the forest. Bombs explode. Soviet Army officer looks through binoculars. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky's soldiers sit in trenches and fire. They bombard a high watch tower and it topples to the ground. They run in a field. Dead German soldiers. Sign board with city name. Soldiers enter town. Belarussian citizens, buildings and bridges in town. A document in Russian. Soldiers talk to civilians. Officers and soldiers shake hand. Bombs explode in town. Ruins of buildings. The town of Gomel.
From a Russian film titled Srazhenie Za Gomel about the Battle of Gomel in World War 2. Position of Gomel on a map. Animated arrow shows movement of Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovskiy's forces. Soldiers advance in a river. They use a small wooden raft to cross the river. Bomb explodes in a field. Russian soldiers fire machine gun. Soldiers cross river on a bridge. Soldiers run in hilly area. Artillery fired. Soldiers row boat. Artillery fired on the shore. Soviet T-34 medium tank crosses wooden bridge.
A Russian Film about the Battle of Gomel in World War 2. Film titled Srazhenie Za Gomel in Russian. Partisans led by 'Katya' join Russian troops. Russian soldiers proceed to Norrossika under enemy fire. Soldiers move forward in woods and fire submachine guns. Artillery fired. Commander in trench. Soldiers move in trenches. artillery are fired. Soldiers look through binoculars, and run in field. Bombs explode near them. Gun mounted tanks move forward in field.
U.S. Army Air Force B-24s bombing targets in Japanese-held areas of Indochina, during the Second World War. View of U.S. Army Air Force B-24 from waist gun position of another B-24. View from B-24 (below 10,000 feet) over an airfield. Waist gunner poses, without oxygen mask, at his machine gun (not firing). View from 17,500 feet as B-24s bomb a supply depot in Hanoi. Clouds of smoke rise from numerous bomb explosions. B-24s on mission to bomb Haiphong, Indochina. Aerial view of B-24 named "80 Days," with two dice (a Five and a Three) pictured under its name. Bombs falling from B-24s as they bomb smelting and foundry plants from 17,000 feet over port city of Haiphong. Smoke rising from targets.
Wreckage and debris on Munda Point airfield, New Georgia Island, after its capture by U.S. forces during World War 2. Dead Japanese soldiers. Destroyed aircraft on island as result of U.S. bombing. Reconstruction workers clear and enlarge runway and operations tower as Americans improve and expand the airbase for their own operations. U.S. flag raised on pole. Seen are the first aircraft to land at Munda Point (on August 14, 1943). The first is a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-40 with letter K and white stripe on fuselage and a white tail. It is followed by a J2F Duck carrying U.S.Marine Brigadier General Francis P. Mulcahy to set up his new headquarters at Munda Point.
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