Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert O. Wymond, Commander of the 65th Fighter Squadron relaxes on a Corsica beach. Lt. Chris Grissinger, army nurse and Wymond's future wife, playfully throws sand at him. Two airmen wade ashore, carrying three large jellyfish on a wooden plank.. Colonel Wymond, Major Francis S. "Spanky" Manda, and other officers sample some French wine at their club on the beach at Alto airbase, Corsica, France. The 65th Squadron Fighting Cock logo is displayed on the bar. P-47s of the 65th Fighter Squadron taxiing on their sandy airfield.
Allied vessels anchored at the harbor in Italy. An Allied patrol boat and an American warship at the harbor in Italy. An Allied destroyer at the harbor. Anti aircraft gun aboard a boat. A Landing Craft Infantry underway at sea. Radar antenna and blinker light signal on board a ship. A lifeboat hoisted in a sling aboard a ship with destroyers in the background. A PBY, a flying boat taxis along the water.
Germans shoot down Allied planes in the Atlantic Ocean. A German minesweeper patrols the English Channel. Ship underway at rough sea. Water washes over the deck of the vessel. Men aboard a German ship. Allied bombers in flight. German antiaircraft guns fire at bombers and shoot them down. Bombers crash into the sea.
A flotilla of German Kriegsmarine minesweepers underway at sea. Symbol of a lobster cutting a mine chain is painted on side of minesweeper. Detonators are dragged behind the vessels on steel cables. Explosions occur as mines detonate in the water. Crews fire at visible floating mines, with deck guns. They drop buoys to mark clear channels. An alarm is sounded, and crews man deck guns and fire them.
German submarine on surface, shoots Allied freighter with its deck gun,in the Atlantic Ocean.German submarine underway on surface. Crew sees Allied freighter and mans deck gun. They fire and hit freighter, which billows smoke and starts to sink. Alarm is sounded. Crew rushes down the hatch as submarine crash dives. View of engine room in submarine and other compartments, as depth charges explode around it. Crew operates manual pumps and secures compartments as water rushes into the submarine. After the danger has past, the submarine surfaces and the Captain climbs on deck.
German forces pulling artillery across shallow water, and pulling a landing craft along a beach. Aerial view of a large body of German soldiers in formations in a field and many miling about in an opern area An area of wrecked trucks. A German tank turns corner. Two German motorcyclists follow a truck. German light tank . A sign reads ' Maniysh Damm, Grenze Europe Asien' (Frontier border between Europe and Asia).German cavalry units advance along road upon the large, wide earthen dam. A barge with trucks in a lake.
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