Film opens showing aerial view of an Illustrious class British aircraft carrier at sea, during World War 2. The original HMS Illustrious (87) in the Mediterranean. Cargo ships in the distance. View from flight deck of aircraft carrier, following a gunboat. Several British warships underway. A British Havant class destroyer. Several British sailors in hard hats observing a Havant class destroyer in the background. Sailors in battle gear firing antiaircraft guns at Axis aircraft. A British Blackburn Skua Mk II fighter dive-bomber aircraft takes off from a carrier. Anti-aircraft guns firing from British ships. Bombs burst in the water close to an aircraft carrier. A British Blackburn B-24 Skua dive bomber takes off from a carrier.
U.S. Marine Corps F4U aircraft of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing are seen along with U.S. Army Air Forces P-38 in flight over Southern Okinawa, during World War 2. Numerous scenes of the aircraft attacking positions of enemy Japan with napalm incendiary bombs. Balls of fire erupting and smoke rising from the hills. Formation of Corsairs returning from the mission.
U.S. F4U-1D and F4U-4 Corsairs from the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing operating against targets on Okinawa during World War 2. They can be seen taxing and taking off with belly tanks underneath. Pilots and airmen stand near a plane. Injured flier being removed from TBM Avenger aircraft and carried to ambulance on a stretcher. F4U Corsairs are seen returning to land. Some land and several go around to space for landing. A TBM Avenger goes around during the landing activity.
First ski patrol of the U.S. Army 41st Division on Mount Rainier in Washington. They train for war services. Soldiers in their special dress with walking sticks and ski walk on a dense snow cover. Soldiers point their rifles out towards enemy positions. A machine gun pointing towards enemy position from a snow covered bunker. Officers observe the enemy positions using binoculars from a snow covered bunker.
A brief promotional scene of large columns of German Army soldiers, in class A uniforms, marching 9-abreast with shouldered rifles. A map of the English Channel with key cities shown along the French Coast. View from shore, of Allied invasion forces off the coast of Normandy, in World War 2. German soldier runs to an Atlantic Wall coastal defense gun, which then fires toward the invasion fleet. View of obstacles placed in surf at the beach. German coastal guns fire at Allied beachhead and ships offshore. Allied ship burning. German gunner seen inside the gun emplacement. Large explosion in water near shore. Destroyed invasion force equipment on the beach. abandoned Allied landing craft with numerous Army vehicles on board. Complete new sequence showing aftermath of the battle of Villers-Bocage, France. Destroyed Allied military equipment lines a road there, including many British Morris army trucks. One destroyed armored vehicle bears insignia of U.S. 2nd Armored Division, with names Betty, Joyce, and Sadie written on it. A German soldier walks past an American M3 halftrack with its right wheel jacked up and jerry cans stored on its side. A line of knocked out British armored trucks. An Allied soldier's shoe and flattened steel helmet. Sign at roadside reads: Villars, Bocage. Knocked out M3 Stuart light tank. Destroyed British Cromwell tanks on streets of the town of Villers-Bocage A British helmet on the ground in midst of debris near destroyed tank treads.
German forces defending against Allies during invasion at Normandy in World War 2. Camouflaged German Panther tank on the move. Others with German infantry on the way to engage invading Allied forces . Views from German positions of artillery fire and German machine gunners. A huge explosion. Battery of German 15 cm mobile rocket launchers (Nebelwerfer 41) firing. Rockets being fired from an Opel Maultier halftrack equipped with 10 tubed rocket launcher (Panzerwerfer 42) and a Wurfrahmen 40 (launch frame 40) multiple rocket launcher on SdKfz 251 halftrack. German forces firing on allied forces. A huge oil fire. German soldier using a flame thrower.
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