German troops battle the enemy in Italy during World War II. A campaign map of Italy during the war. Abandoned and captured Allied tanks and vehicles. Allied prisoners (mostly U.S. Army POWs) are taken by German soldiers. American POWs resting at a roadside, receiving medical treatment, and gathered in a large group. Vapor trails left by Allied aircraft in the sky. German troops man antiaircraft guns. Smoke billows up from explosions in a field. German paratroopers advance. Troops fire machine guns and advance through a wooded area. A camouflaged artillery gun being fired. Field Marshal of German Air Force General Albert Kesselring observes the advance of the paratroopers. A German railway gun is being fired. Smoke billows up from the explosions.
Sequence starts at Tontouta Air Base in New Caledonia, on the near left side of runway 2 in the area of the 13th Troop Carrier Squadron ( a.k.a. the Thirsty 13th) with their plane "Lady Eve" on the right. (The 801st Medical Air Evacuation Squadron was assigned to the 13th TCS on January 9, 1943, and remained with it until the end of the war. But they also flew on planes of the 63rd and 64th TCSs, and with the Marines.) Takeoff is on runway 11 at Tontouta Air Base. A pilot and a co-pilot at the controls in the cockpit of a C-47. A navigator at work. C-47s in flight west over New Georgia, 10 miles southeast of Munda, near Eghelo. The plane landing at Munda has no tail number and is probably a U.S. Marine Corps plane. They evacuate wounded soldiers from Munda airstrip on New Georgia Island in the Solomon Islands during World War 2. Doors of the aircraft are opened. An ambulance backs to the door of the aircraft. Litter patients are removed from the ambulance and loaded aboard the C-47.
U.S. Task Force combat against enemy in the Pacific Theater depicts use of war bond money during World War II. Task force ships underway. A blinker signal is given from a ship. Formation of U.S. Army Air Force aircraft overhead. U.S. Navy officers discuss charts aboard a ship. U.S. sailors manning a gun. A U.S. submarine rises on water surface. Aircraft parked on the deck of a carrier. A U.S. aircraft takes off from the carrier to protect the advancing convoy. Navy guns aboard a ship are fired. U.S. aircraft peel off. Japanese bombers drop bombs on a U.S. convoy underway at sea. Ships burn after being attacked. A U.S. ship sinks. A Japanese pilot in the cockpit of a bomber. A Japanese bomber is downed by U.S. antiaircraft fire. U.S. Marines disembark from a ship and board a landing craft to assault a Japanese held island. A formation of aircraft. Marines wade ashore. The Marines advance on a beach. Japanese soldiers march on the beach. An aircraft crashes.
U.S. paratroopers combat against the enemy in the Pacific Theater depicts use of war bond money during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft in flight. U.S. paratroopers get ready for a jump over a Pacific island. The paratroopers jump from the transport and descend over the island. The paratroopers land under fire.
United States Navy Tambor-class submarine USS Trout (SS-202), returning from its second war patrol, unloads gold at Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii during World War II. USS Trout (SS-202) comes alongside Omaha-class light cruiser USS Detroit (CL-8) at Pearl Harbor to unload a cargo of gold that she had evacuated from Corregidor in the Philippines. Captain and crew members on the deck of USS Trout submarine tied up alongside USS Detroit cruiser. High ranking officers on the deck of the submarine. Crew members work in the background. The crew members on the submarine transfer 20 tons of gold bars and bags of silver pesos from the hold of the sub to the USS Detroit. Each gold bar was worth $23,000 and each sack contained 1,000 silver pesos. The total value was near 10 million dollars.
A speech by British Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill in London, England during World War 2. He states that Britain is in stronger position than it was at the start of the war. He says that fate of Holland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Austria will be decided by the victory of Britain and French Republic.
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