Activities at Second Aviation Instruction Center in France during World War I. An unidentified aircraft in flight. Wooden hangar buildings at an airfield. An aircraft parking area, warehouses, barrack type buildings and a motor pool at the airfield. A truck drives past on a road in the background. Several fighters and bombers, Royal Air Force Sopwith Cuckoo torpedo bomber, French biplane fighter aircraft Spad, British bombers Airco DH-4s, French fighter aircraft Nieuports, British fighter aircraft Sopwith Camel and other World War I aircraft dispersed all around on the field. Ground crew around the aircraft. Hangars in the foreground. A parked Airco DH-4 aircraft.
Depicts activities of U.S. soldiers in the Italian Campaign during World War II. Major General Rider of U.S. 34th Infantry Division speaks to Colonel Butler Commander of 168th Infantry Division at Alvignano, Italy. U.S. troops advance towards Dragoni. U.S. Army 36th Artillery soldiers fire artillery, supporting the 45th Division, in an assault on the last line of hills leading to the Volturno Valley. A soldier gives water to an injured soldier on a stretcher. Soldiers carry injured on a stretcher. Japanese-American soldiers of the United States Army 100th Infantry Division arrive. They stand in a line and are served food. The troops eat their food. View of a dead German soldier, and of other German soldiers as they surrender to U.S. Army forces. U.S. 3rd Division troops fire artillery at Dragoni. Smoke rises in the foreground. A map of Italy showing Dragoni. The troops advance and the 168th Division is seen occupying Dragoni on the next day, without opposition. U.S. soldiers escort some German soldier prisoners of war from the German 3rd Panzer Grenadier and the 26th Panzer Divisions. A German soldier treats an injured fellow prisoner. Italian civilian refugee men and women walk in a roadway and are evacuated to the rear.
American troops of the 45th Infantry Division, are seen in mountains after breaking through the first segment of the German Winter Line, near San Pietro Infine, Italy, in World War 2. It is Christmas Day, 1943 and they occupy Mount Lungo. They receive Christmas dinner in their individual mass kits and sit down on the ground to eat it. On December 28th, they employ pack mules and also use stretchers to retrieve remains of fallen 3rd Division defenders down the steep mountain trails of Mount Lungo. They place the carefully wrapped remains at the base of a bullet pock-marked stone structure. Scene shifts to Mount Sammucro where American troops take advantage of a brief lull in fighting. On 1 January, 1944, Second Corp reinforcements have arrived and Americans commence a new assault on the German Winter Line defenses, with an artillery barrage on German positions guarding San Vittore del Lazio. View of smoke rising from that town. Shelling of Mountaintop flanking Highway 6held by Germans. Groups of American troops firing mortars from valley below. Shells exploding on German positions. Closeup of American gun crew loading and firing a 155mm long tom field gun. Soldiers holding their ears when gun fires. Bombs dropped from American warplane aircraft explode near roads in the valley. Glimpse from U.S. warplane flying overhead, of smoke rising from German positions in the Winter Line. Soldiers of the 168th Infantry Regiment firing a recoiless rifle from wooded area. Shells striking at base of mountain. Troops of the U.S. 137 Infantry Regiment advancing on San Vittore. view in the Italian town on 7 January, 1944, when street fighting has ended. American soldiers are seen mingling with the civilian inhabitants. German military equipment destroyed and burning during the American Winter Line offensive. Captured German soldiers being taken into custody, searched, and processed as prisoners of war.
Chilean people gather in a pro-Allies, and anti-Axis rally and parade in Santiago, Chile during World War II. Demonstrating against the Chilean government's stance of neutrality, the people crowd in front of a building for demonstration against the Axis powers, and in favor of Chile joining with the Allies in World War 2. The people demand fulfillment of the Good Neighbor rule, affirmed in the conference at Rio de Janeiro. Buildings of a city squqre in the background. The demonstrators hold banners. A man on a platform speaks into a microphone. People listen to him and hold banners. People parade on streets holding flags of Chile, the United States and Britain. People cheer and show a sign of victory.
A documentary titled 'Hell For Leather' shows combat activities of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division during wars. Dramatization shows a 1st Cavalry soldier seated on a step and his son touches the insignia of the U.S. 1st Cavalry division on the uniform. Reenacted footage of Cavalry unit battling Native American Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Next scene shows training of U.S. Army cavalry troops for World War 2, as they run an obstacle course and practice bayonet drills. The troops undergo combat training. They practice amphibious landings and crawling near razor wire. Animated map shows the amphibious attacks on Los Negros Island in 1944. A ship underway and soldiers on the deck of the ship. Ship guns are fired in Battle of Los Negros. The U.S. Army troops load a Landing Craft and it gets underway. They approach the shore and get off from the landing craft at the beach. The troops hold guns and advance in jungle region, firing rifles and machine guns, engaging enemy Japanese marines protecting the airfield. The U.S. Army troops firing and advancing against the Japanese. The wounded soldiers on a stretcher. The soldiers fire artillery and mortars. View of dead Japanese troops. The U.S. troops advance. U.S. General MacArthur praises a soldier. 'Bataan' written on the barrel of a gun.
The U.S. Navy task force underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The U.S. Navy planes take off from an carrier aircraft. U.S. sailors on the deck. The airplanes take off from the deck one after the other. A signal man gives a signal. Insignia of the United States on the airplanes. The airplanes in flight. The aircraft carrier underway. The airplanes in flight over the Tokyo Bay. The airplanes drop bombs on the Tokyo area. Explosions on the ground. Smoke rises due to explosions. Rockets are dropped at the Japanese War Installation on the field. The installation being shelled. Aerial view of the bombed area. An airplane in flight and drop bombs. The Japanese planes parked on the ground and are destroyed. The planes burn on the ground. An airplane in flight.
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