A parade in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. U.S. soldiers march. The Republican Party nominee of the 1940 Presidential elections Wendell Lewis Willkie salutes. People on bicycles and cars in the parade. People dressed in different costumes. They carry hot air balloons shaped as different animals. A hot air balloon shaped in the form of a train. (World War II period).
U.S. Medical Corps in Italy during World War II. Injured U.S. soldiers being loaded onto railroad train, and wounded seen in bunks and beds aboard the medical train or hospital train. Nurses move in the moving train. The soldiers eat food. Next scene is at the Anzio Nettuno beachhead: The exteriors of a wrecked building. British and American soldiers and officers walk through a passage down the stairs. Soldiers work on maps and typewriters in tunnels at the underground Allied headquarters in Cassino. View of girl pin-up images decorating walls of the converted wine cellar headquarters. U.S. Soldiers pack German language leaflets into shells to be fired into the German lines at Cassino. View of one of the leaflets, which narrator says tell of the victories by Soviet forces on the eastern front. Shells holding propaganda leaflets are fired as soldiers discuss the strategy. A truck near a heap of shells. St. Elia: U.S. soldiers help injured civilian refugee people. An Italian woman carrying a child walks. A young civilian refugee girl stands near the truck and cries.
A military wedding in Orting, Washington, United States. Women in costumes pick daffodils in a large daffodil flower field. Soldiers and officers gathered during the spring time wedding. Staff Sergeant William Melnick and Private Clara Owens, from Fort Lewis, exchange rings. Soldiers hold guns as they stand near. The newly married couple kisses. (World War II period).
The medical aid being provide to the U.S. soldiers in Anzio, Italy. The U.S. officers walk through a passage down the stairs. The U.S. soldiers work at the underground headquarters on telephones,typewriters and many more to keep in touch with the soldiers. A soldier works at the typewriter. The posters of a girl on the wall. The injured U.S. soldiers in the medical train. The nurses move in the train. The soldiers eat. Nurses treat the soldiers. The rest at the base hospital. A soldier being carried on a stretcher into the hospital ship. (World War II period).
Army jeeps being tested in Australia. The soldiers seated on the army jeep driven over sand. A jeep driven on the sea shore. The Scout car gets stuck in a sand dune. Another Scout car passes the smaller car . A car being roughly driven. (World War II period).
Parents of American soldiers of Japanese ancestry receiving awards in the United States, during World War 2. Parents of the Japanese-American soldiers seated at the ceremony. They are receiving Purple Heart medals for the soldiers who died while serving in the U.S. army. Narrator mentions "60 from Hawaii alone gave their lives." (The soldiers were likely from the 100th Infantry or 442nd Regimental Combat Team).
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