Rescue of U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bomber crew in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Men in a lifeboat taken aboard the American submarine, USS Batfish (SS-310). An airplane circling overhead. The crew of the B-29 in the life boat being rescued at sea. Injured crewman of B-29 being helped aboard USS Batfish. Injured airman strapped to a board being lowered aboard the submarine. Hatch of the submarine being secured. Wounded airmen being transferred in stretchers from USS Batfish to a motor launch. Red Cross-marked boats with wounded men shove off.
A Japanese light cruiser underway in heavy seas, with her bow plunging and deck awash, during World War 2. Two Japanese crewmen look through binoculars and telescope on the bridge. Frozen deck showing ice-covered lifelines and anchor chain. Crewmen wearing cold weather gear break ice from the deck and a gun mount.
Animated map shows Northern Pacific with line from Japan to the Aleutians and thence to the West coast of the United States. View zooms in on the Aleutian Islands. View, from Japanese transport ship, of several Japanese warships underway in Northern Pacific ocean during World War 2. Japanese Naval officer steering in the wheelhouse of the ship. A light cruiser and two more warships in a column. A company of Japanese marines receive instructions from an officer and board a landing craft.View of marines in landing craft, underway, with their rifles resting on the gunnels.
View of a motorboat heading toward an Japanese Imperial Navy Niagra-class light cruiser anchored near a submarine, in waters off Kiska,in the Aleutian Islands, during World War 2. Scene shifts to Japanese naval guns firing. A U.S. Army Air forces B-24 Liberator bomber is seen in flight overhead. Explosion and smoke fills scene next to Japanese camera ship, and then another bomb explodes in the water nearby. A Japanese submarine and destroyer are in the background. Japanese ship fires anti-aircraft guns at a U.S. PBY-5 Catalina in flight overhead. Camera follows flight of the Catalina past ship's funnel which is emitting black smoke. Another bomb hits water near the ship. More anti-aircraft fire is seen from the ship. The Catalina turns away, with a slight trail of smoke behind. Next, a large explosion is seen from a bomb striking near the shore. A Catalina, flying toward the camera ship, passes over a hill, through black flak clouds, and is struck. It descends, emitting trailing puffs of black smoke and strikes the shoreline in an explosion and black smoke.
A German documentary film titled 'Die Frontschau' based on an attack by German infantry and armor against a village on the Eastern Front during World War II. A German half-track towing a gun through deep mud. German infantry on a snowy field. A German soldier digs. Gun crew manning their gun. Troops fire artillery guns and machine guns. A column of soldiers advances along a snowy field. The infantry continues machine gun and artillery fire on the field.
German infantry and tanks advance on the Eastern Front during World War 2. German Panzer IV tanks move across a snowy field. Artillery crew in action. Soil and snow thrown into air as shells hit the ground. An officer shouts into a megaphone. The crew of a German Sd.Kfz. 251 half track firing their gun at Soviet positions. They celebrate after hitting a target. German infantrymen run on the snowy field under fire. Type Sd.Kfz. 250/2 Half-track armored personnel carrier advances with crew member manning a gun. The tanks fire at enemy positions. They continue to advance and attack. Smoke rises from an explosion in the background. Infantrymen advance in the snow.
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