Surrender of British-led forces on February 15,1942 in Singapore during World War II. British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival led by a Japanese officer, marches with a flag of truce to the Old Ford Motor Factory in Bukit Timah to negotiate the surrender. Sign on a building 'Ford'. Interior: British General Percival seated at table with another officer. Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita comes out from his car and enters into a building. British General Percival, Japanese General Yamashita and other officers sign surrender documents. Ruins and smoke rising. Barbed wire perimeter. Japanese flag seen. Japanese celebrate their victory.
Preview of pre-invasion maneuvers in Great Britain during World War II, less than 2 months before the D-Day invasion of France by Allied forces. Men accumulate tons of supplies and motor cars are lined up. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marshal of the Royal air Force Arthur William Tedder and British Army Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery view the tons of supplies which have been accumulated. Photographers take photos. They join the troops who engage in mass maneuvers. View of a British soldier loading and firing a British spigot mortar type 35 pound anti tank PIAT gun (Projector, Infantry, Anti tank), new machine guns spit into action from tanks and masses of tanks give off salvos of artillery fire. A huge formations of transport planes in flight as hundreds of paratroopers descend on ground.
Allied Patrols in Action at Anzio beach, Italy during World War II. Allied troops fight at Anzio. Soldiers fire artillery to remove Nazi German troops from their hide outs. Smoke rising. Soldiers lying on grass land and fire. Equipment burns. Soldiers carry wounded soldiers on stretcher. Nazi German prisoners are being taken.
Forest fire in New Jersey, United States. Fire blazes in forest. Smoke rising from fire. Fire equipment seen. Trees on fire. Fire burns higher than tree tops. (World War II period).
Allies capture Nazi secret weapons in Anzio, Italy during World War II. American troops examine a German "death wagon" sitting on a flat bed truck. It is radio controlled and designed to carry a thousand pounds of explosive. Another scene shows a German Neger human-guided torpedo driven ashore. It had been manned by a 17 year old German sailor, who is seen being interrogated. U.S. troops chain the torpedo to a boat and activate its propeller, in the surf.
U.S. Navy's fleet task force under Japanese air attack in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. CA (Cruiser) and DD (destroyer) under air attack, much flak rises in the sky. Iowa class BB (Battleship) under air attack, much flak in sky. Crew aboard deck of a ship. Mounted guns on deck, fire. Flaming Japanese planes fall through flak to sea. U.S. Navy fighter aircraft F6F Hellcat lands on carrier deck, one wheel collapses. Pilot gets off from the aircraft F6F. Crew recovers the aircraft.
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