Activities of British Forces in France during World War II. Archer tanks move along a road. Soldiers in the tanks. The soldiers fire artillery. Explosions and smoke in the background. Sherman Crabs operate flails. The soldiers wearing camouflaged helmets, military gear advance. The soldiers move into action. The soldiers fire artillery. A convoy of Churchill tanks loaded with soldiers drives away. Music and battle sounds on soundtrack.
Operations of the U.S. Army Air Forces 394th Fighter Squadron, 367th Fighter Group, at Juvincourt Airfield (Advanced Landing Ground A-68) in France, during Winter of 1944, World War 2. The entire field is covered in snow. Pilots ride to their P-38 aircraft on a train of sleds, pulled by a Carl Eliason Motor Toboggan (Made by Four Wheel Drive Auto Company of Clintonville, Wisconsin). Pilots playfully brush some snow toward the camera as they pass. They stop to let a pilot off at his P-38 (reportedly the pilot is Jack Hallett). Next, P-38 aircraft are seen taxiing for takeoff over the snow, and then, flying very low over the field. The sound of gunfire is heard in the background. An abandoned (crash-landed) RAF Avro Lancaster bomber is seen collapsed on its left wing and elevator, in the snow. (It has been suggested that this might be Lancaster serial no ME850 LS-D of XV squadron RAF that crash landed on January 1st, 1945 or Lancaster VN-G of 50 SQN that crashed there on the same day.)
United States aircraft strafe German positions in France during World War II. Explosions due to firing. The damaged equipment on the ground. U.S. aircraft in flight. The U.S. aircraft strafe German positions. A U.S. P-37 taking off from a snow-covered airfield. A U.S. P-37 aircraft lands and loses control on the runway during landing. It plows into a parked P-37 off the runway. A man standing near the parked P-37 is seen running and narrowly misses being hit by the crashing aircraft as he falls to the ground.
Film opens showing American soldiers riding in an open tracked personnel carrier, along a road in France, during World War 2. They pass a burning destroyed German tank at the roadside. A U.S. Army truck full of troops and a jeep follow the personnel carrier. Next dragon's teeth tank traps are seen in the snow. A U.S. M10 tank destroyer and a truck are parked near the dragon's teeth. A gunner atop the M10 fires his M2 Browning heavy machine gun. The M10 continues to move past the dragon's teeth. Infantry are seen accompanied by a whitewashed M4A3(76) Sherman tank. Other troops are settled into positions in the snow beside the narrow road. View from behind advancing troops. Explosions in a hillside as shells strike from an M4A3(105) firing rounds. White smoke rising from phosphorous shells fired into a German village. An M4A3(76) tank firing rounds in the village. Sherman medium tanks moving through rubble and then on a town street. Two M4A3(75) tanks parked side-by-side in the town. Tank commander in one points down the street, as hatch in the nearest one begins to open. U.S. infantry moving through the town accompanied by these tanks. Armored infantry hunker down behind a tank as it passes a church building. Some soldiers scamper down a hill toward village wooden buildings. Two are seen escorting a German prisoner, who collapses and has to be helped to his feet. Three other U.S. soldiers are approached by a surrendering German soldier with his hands in the air. Next American soldiers are seen taking several surrendering German soldiers into custody.
Activities of Allied troops in France during World War II. The French flag at mast on a church or cathedral. U.S. Army soldiers fire mortars and artillery. Soldiers use sighting equipment to hone in on targets. Smoke in the background. Mortar and artillery round crashing near partially destroyed bridges over a river.
U.S. Army nurses going in and exiting their quarters building on New Guinea during World War 2, Some inside the barracks tend to their personal needs, such as combing their hair. In a personal touch one nurse has two Raggedy Ann dolls and a baby doll on her pillow. Outside, on duty, a nurse takes the temperature of an ambulatory patient. Inside a large tent hospital, nurses tend to patients on cots. A nurse assists a New Guinea native boy on crutches with a bandaged leg. Behind them is a tent labeled "Surgery personnel only. Keep out." View inside the surgery tent, shows a doctor and nurses performing surgery on a wounded soldier. Closeup, as a nurse wipes sweat from the surgeon's brow. Scene shifts to medical personnel transferring patients on litters from a field ambulance to an Air Evacuation C-47 transport plane. View of the C-47 plane taking off. Nurses inside the plane tending patients, some on stacked cots and others on the floor of the plane.View through the C-47 cockpit window of water and a mass of land ahead.
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