A U.S. Naval Task Force takes Munda in the Solomon Islands during World War II. The naval task force underway at sea. Soldiers with guns on landing crafts. The soldiers move towards Munda island. They disembark from the landing crafts. Crates, shells, food, ammunition and fuel drums are unloaded from the landing crafts and are arranged. Big guns and artillery are moved into position on the island. Coconuts trees are fell by using dynamite. Artillery is fired, explosions occur and smoke rises. The material needed for war - iron, rubber, medical supplies and ammunition. Dead lying on the ground. Wounded are evacuated and carried on stretchers to battalion aid stations. The wounded are treated.
Food rationing in New York, United States, during World War 2. Interior of King Kullen Grocery store: A housewife buys rationed canned goods. A sign: 'Official Table of Point Values for Processed Foods'. A hand takes counts out ration stamps from a sheet of stamps. The housewife buys vegetables. A food market clerk places a bag of apples in a cart. The housewife talks to the clerk. Signs : 'Please Do Not Ask for Butter Today' and 'Sorry No More Pineapple'. A Federal Offense sign reads, "Let's share the food and help win the war! It is a federal offense to violate any provision of the Food Rationing Act." Additional signs read : 'All Rationed Foods Are Marked', and "We Are Temporarily Out Of Beef'. Exterior of King Kullen Grocery store shows people walking away with packages.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) SI (Secret Intelligence) operations against Axis Powers in the European Theater during World War II. Throngs of Axis POWs (prisoners-of-war) march along a road. The prisoners march behind a barbed wire fence. U.S. SI (Secret Intelligence) agents are picked up from these prisoners. A large numbers of prisoners gathered in the area.
After effects of German invasion of Soviet Union during World War II. Musical works of famous Russian musician Tchaikovsky. Wrecked house of Leo Tolstoy and his famous work War and Peace. Leo Tolstoy's grave site and cemetery of Nazi soldiers who lost their lives in the Soviet invasion. Dead Russian civilians lie in the snow as others mourn their death. Frozen bodies of civilian dead men, women, and children.
Ice melting and water flowing as Spring comes to Leningrad following winter siege by Germany in World War 2. Crosses from Nazi graves wash away into streams. Convoy trucks continue to drive on the melting ice of Lake Ladoga. Group of children in Leningrad enjoy a walk outside. A child rides a tricycle. A woman washes windows of a trolley. Point of view (POV) shot of driving trolley in Leningrad, showing controls. People board trolley. Soviet women soldiers from Army and women sailors from women's Navy corps walking. Wide shot of Leningrad with trolley running. Dancers from the famous ballet theater board a Soviet battleship. Dancers perform traditional dances while sailors play violin and other instruments. Sailors watch as dancers leave ship in small boat. Woman spits on German prisoners of war POWs as they are marched through the streets of Leningrad. Soviet citizen soldiers or militia march in procession holding rifles with fixed bayonet.
Following victory over Japan in World War 2, a map shows the surrender of Japanese troops to Allied forces in different regions of Pacific Theater during World War II. On Cebu Island in the Philippines, U.S. 8th Army soldiers march several thousand Japanese prisoners along a road. Command of Japanese 34th Army hands over his saber. American soldiers gather piles of swords received in surrender from the Japanese forces. View of mist hanging over Governor's Palace (The Mansion) in Baguio Philippines. General Wainwright and General Percival arrive by car at the mansion. Japanese General Yamashita arrives next and enters the building. General Tomoyuki Yamashita signs surrender documents as General Wainwright and other Allied officers look on. General Yamashita is taken to New Bilibid prison and is seen being escorted into a prison cell.
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