Bakers cook bread for Italian people during World War II, after the retreating German Army destroyed or removed all bread flour stores. Massive stacks of bags of flour in a warehouse. Workers unpile sacks of grain flour. Bakers empty the contents of the sacks in utensils for preparing bread. Bakers smile as they roll dough and bake bread. Pile of breads. Civilians standing outside the store of bread. Inside, a store keeper cuts bread and weighs it for each customer. They buy breads. At the home of an Italian family, civilian man, woman, and children eat bread and soup, and drink wine.
Allied troops break through the German Gustav line, during World War II. Allies troops fire guns, howitzers, mortars and machine guns on Nazi positions. French troops fire artillery and Sherman tanks fire. Explosions and smoke rise. French troops capture Castelforte, nicknamed 'little Cassino' on May 14. German prisoners are being taken as they surrender. Wounded Allied soldiers. Troops move through the ruins of captured Castleforte. British break through the Gustav line and on May 18 capture destroyed Monte Cassino. View of broken walls of the gutted Benedictine Abbey. Gutted buildings of town. Ruined building. Allied troops move ahead and advance. Bedraggled inhabitants return to their towns. An old woman eats bread. Planes in flight.
Ruins in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Shelled buildings, damaged by Allied bombings. Firemen douse fire. Damaged building by air attack of Allies. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda with other officers and inspects bomb damaged site. Civilians move with their belongings. Ruined buildings and debris. Civilians remove debris.
U.S. Navy's fleet task force under Japanese air attack in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Japanese plane aboard deck of ship in midst of task force. Iowa class BB(Battleship), CV (aircraft carrier), CA (Cruiser) and escorting DDs (destroyer) underway at sea. Explosions seen near to CV in water. U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2Cs Helldiver are towed across flight deck.
U.S. Navy's fleet task force under Japanese air attack in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Ship underway at sea, flak in sky during battle. A doctor operates on a wounded sailor or soldier aboard a ship. Task force personnel standing near around the patient. Task force crew handle line on ship. CBs (Large Cruiser) underway during air attack.
Seventy five U.S. Army Curtiss P-40L airplanes are ferried across the Atlantic Ocean to within flying range of Morocco, North Africa, by the Aircraft Carrier, USS Ranger (CV-4), during World War 2. U.S. Army Air Force pilots prepare to fly the P-40s to the former Vichy French Anfa Airport near Casablance, captured by the Allies in Operation Torch. The Army pilots and support personnel are seen being briefed on the flight deck. Navy deck crews help move a P-40 into position. USAAF 57th Fighter Group commander, Colonel Frank H. Mears shakes hands with a navy officer from the cockpit of his P-40. Carrier officer seen signaling for take off. Colonel Mears takes off. More P-40s follow. Navy officers and sailors watch the departing P-40s and give thumbs up for approval. The P-40s buzz the carrier as they form up to depart.
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