Shows conflict between German U-boats and Allied convoys in Atlantic, during World War 2. Clip contains actual World War 2 footage, but sound effects, narration, and editing relate a fictionalized story. Destroyer escort with a supply convoy in the Atlantic. Sailor stands next to a steel drum depth charge chained to the deck. View of a surfaced German U-boat ostensibly tracking a convoy. Supply ships silhouetted against the sky in evening. Captain at periscope in submerged German submarine.The boat surfaces and crew goes on deck to view convoy through binoculars. Order is given to launch a torpedo. Explosion and fire seen as it hits a ship. Destroyer escort ship underway. U.S. sailors aboard convoy escort ship sight a German submarine periscope. View inside the U-boat when they know they have been detected. The U-boat crash dives and the Captain calls for silence. Crew on deck of escort ship begin launching depth charges in battle which explode to her stern. One damages the submarine and water enters it.
Soldiers of U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion, Alamo Scouts, and Filipino guerrillas stand along with American prisoners of war they freed from Japanese prison at Cabanatuan, Philippines, in a daring raid behind Japanese lines, in World War 2. The soldiers converse with liberated prisoners. They board trucks. Thatched huts in the background. Some of the released prisoners and soldiers march on a field and others aboard the trucks as they head back to the American lines.
U.S. prisoners of war being escorted back to American lines, by Rangers of the U.S. Army 6th Battalion, Alamo Scouts, and Filipino guerrillas, after being freed from the Japanese prison at Cabanatuan, Philippines, in a daring raid behind Japanese lines, during World War 2. The rescuers stand with the freed prisoners. Some released prisoners march along and some prisoners ride in carabao carts. Trees in the area. Thatched huts in the background. Local women and children watch the liberated prisoners.
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marine. Paintings of the founders of the U.S. Navy like John Paul Jones. Merchant ships underway at sea. Men work on a ship. Men standing on the deck of the ship. A map locates places. Dramatizations of sailing ships in combat against pirates in the Atlantic Ocean. They fought against the pirates during the Revolutionary War and in the war of 1812. Men fire deck guns from a ship. Smoke arises due to the firing. People lined up outside a building. Officials seated inside a building.
Moviemaking and distribution by the U.S. Army during World War 2. Scenes of New York City skyline at night and street scenes in daytime. U.S. Servicemen in South Pacific, the arctic, and in Egypt. Soldiers marching and watching training films.Scenes on set of training film being made about care of wounded. Soldiers checking out films and motion picture projection equipment at an Army library. Comments regarding popularity of the "Fighting Men," "Why we fight,"and other series of war time motion pictures. Soldier technicians inspecting and repairing films and equipment. Discussions and sample slates of films translated into various languages. Views of soldier actors, producers, directors, and technicians enter movie studio buildings to produce films.
Reconstruction of Europe after World War II. In Axis countries like Germany, children who suffered through war in Europe are seen gathered together on the street, many German boys and girls looking sad and hungry. Rubble of destroyed houses and buildings. Citizens walk through debris. Group of children lick metal pans laying on the ground and scavenge for food in a pile. Other people living in poverty are seen scavenging for food in trash cans and dust bins. A woman scrapes a trash can with a spoon and eats while a boy looks on. A riot and mayhem among citizens seeking relief and food. Faces of upset citizens, with many looking scared, sad, and angry. Sick, starved infant child lying in bed.
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