The 27th annual meeting of the American Legion in Chicago, Illinois after the end of World War II. Women in uniforms and children eating chicken legs during the event. A war veteran speaks into a microphone. A sailor feeds chicken to an infant. Another war veteran from Georgia. Photographers take pictures of delegates during the annual meeting. A navy officer being presented a memento.
War dogs near Man-Tha in Burma during World War II. U.S. infantrymen accompanied by German Shepherd war dogs march. They march along a road. Some of the soldiers lie down beside a road and rest during a halt. The soldiers pick up their packs and resume marching.
A film titled 'Campaign in Sicily' on the campaign of Allied forces to invade Sicily, Italy during World War II (Operation Husky). Animated map shows the target area of the Allies. British Army General Alan Gordon Cunningham, U.S. Army General Dwight David Eisenhower, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur William Tedder , British Army Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, U.S. Army General George Smith Patton and United States Army Air Forces Lieutenant General James Harold Doolittle plan and discuss during the campaign. Lt. Gen. Doolittle and some officers stand near an airplane. U.S. airplanes bomb Pantelleria. Aircraft in formation flight over the target area and drop bombs. British infantry goes ashore. Masses of Italian prisoners of war march along. Rubbled buildings in the area. Axis airplanes bomb an Allied supply ship off an island. British engineers repair an airstrip on the island. Allied bombers strike target areas in Italy. Troops transports assemble in a harbor at Alexandria, Egypt. Ships being loaded at the harbor. Generals Eisenhower and Patton aboard USS Monrovia. Ships underway at sea. U.S. Navy sailors receive a briefing over a large table map conducted by U.S. Navy officers. Animated map shows target areas and Allied strategies and invaded areas. Allied troops, following a night naval bombardment, land in Sicily using amphibious vehicles and floating causeways. Landing ships are unloaded. Steel mash mats are laid down. Bulldozers are taken ashore. General Patton and 3rd Infantry Division units land. Axis airplanes attack the convoy. They drop bombs over target areas. An ammunition ship is exploded. Heavy columns of smoke rise as ships and landing craft explode. Soldiers advance along a town. Artillery and tanks advance along. Wrecked airplanes and equipment in the area. Dead bodies of soldiers on the ground. A medic treats a wounded. Aircraft in flight overhead. Officers in the balcony of a building. People gather outside the building. Animated map invasion by Allied forces. Prisoners of war are marched along a field. Soldiers advance.
A film on the campaign of Allied forces in Sicily, Italy during World War II. Soldiers move along an area aboard a tank. Debris on a beach near Gela. Soldiers march. Animated map shows invaded areas. Masses of Italian prisoner of war. Soldiers aboard vehicles moving along a street. A crowd greets them and cheers. Aerial view of the city. Soldiers and officers gather. The surrender of the Italian forces. Allied antiaircraft guns mistakenly downs friendly transport airplanes near Gela. A ship convoy underway. The 3rd Division enters Palermo harbor area. Dead bodies in the area. Italian prisoners of war repair roads. Debris in Palermo harbor. A smoke screen shields the harbor. Allied and Axis wounded are evacuated. Soldiers advance along a town. Houses along street sides.
Machine guns in action on front line in Europe during World War 1. German machine gun teams fire Maxim belt-fed, water-cooled machine guns from entrenched positions. Then they scramble out of their trenches. Change of scene shows German machine gunners on a hillside close to a bridge. Their leader gives a signal and they pick up and advance to the bridge. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Belgian peasants in town captured by Germans during World War 1, are forced to give up their cattle to German authorities.They are seen leading cattle in the town squar3, as German soldiers direct them. Change of scene to street vendors stalls set up in front of established shops. More cattle being led to German soldiers on the square. Local Belgians and a few Germans pose for the camera. Behind them is a heap of rubble neatly piled up near some houses. A horseman moves past a church severely damaged by German shelling. The camera moves to other buildings also damaged. View backwards from vehicle moving across a wide cobblestone pavement, beside a destroyed railroad station. A German soldier stands near a man and woman. Extremely small open rail rail cars are lined up near the pavement. Two children stand in front of a larger open rail car. We pass a German staff car, going in the opposite direction and several people in horse carts. Severe damage from shelling is seen in many places, with some buildings completely destroyed. Final scene shows point of view from camera mounted on moving cart, looking to the rear, as the cart moves down the street passing many destroyed buildings. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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