Chateau Thierry and the Aisne Marne Operation in France during First World War. U.S. troops attack the enemy in the South of Soissons. A map of France. Firing by the U.S. soldiers. U.S. troops and tank advance under a smoke screen. The soldiers advance forward through tall grass. They talk over a radio device in trenches. The troops do several activities at a base camp. The men advance in horse carriages. Field guns are being fired. Soldiers carry a wounded man on a stretcher.
The USS Yorktown (CV-10) in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Map of Marcus Island and surrounding islands in Japan. Animation depicts the U.S. fleet's aim to recapture the Philippines and land on the main land of Asia to help their ally China. USS Yorktown underway. A map depicts its advance towards its target of Kwajalein Island in the Marshall Islands. Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters in flight. U.S. planes in dogfights with Japanese aircraft over Kwajalein Island. Aerial gun camera footage shows United States aircraft attacking Japanese aircraft. Japanese airplane is hit and explodes. Another Japanese airplane falling from sky to crash in water. Heavy bombardment and strafing on land of enemy targets, wrecked aircraft. Black smoke rises from explosions on the burning island. Heavy shelling by surface ships. Assault crafts filled with U.S. Marines and Army soldiers hit the beaches on Kwajalein. U.S. airplanes in flight over the island.
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldiers being extracted by helicopters after Operation Lam Son 719 in Laos during the Vietnam War. U.S. Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) parked on a hilltop. and several in flight around Route 9. One chopper on ground with the rotor blades spinning. ARVN soldiers around the chopper. Soldiers seated in the chopper that takes off. Hills in the background. A Huey in flight over military trucks and artillery at a camp. South Vietnamese soldiers in groups at the landing zone. They prepare to evacuate the camp. Soldiers with back packs seated and standing. Three U.S. Army soldiers converse. Military trucks in the background. Vietnamese soldiers with back packs and guns walk in one direction. A Continental tire on a military jeep with a 'Ben Hai' sign and insignia. A South Vietnamese soldier with a military water bottle. A soldier signals a helicopter as it approaches for landing.
The First Army Signal Service Headquarters, Executive and Communication Section in France during World War 2. A soldier takes a message from the check post at the entrance. He delivers the dispatch message to the 'Master Message Center'. View of an American cipher machine ( SIGABA or Converter M-134 or ECM Mark II, akin to a German enigma machine) used to encipher or encrypt the message. Another soldier decodes the incoming messages and encodes the outgoing messages using an automatic code machine. Soldiers operate teletypes, wirelesses, telephones and radios at the Headquarters. Officers near telephone carrier equipment that provides 7 channels in all and has 2 ground simplex circuits. A messenger plane lands near the Headquarters. The pilot hands over a map to the messenger. The map is cleared through the Message Center, sent by facsimile to Intelligence. Officers then forward the information to the artillery. The designated target area on the map. Soldiers fire artillery and shell the target area.
Montage of military footage assembled to describe Joint Assault Signal Companies, in World War 2. Some inserts are inconsistent and anachronistic. Scenes of U.S. amphibious assault on a Japanese-held island in the Pacific theater. Camera focuses on small fast-moving assault boat carrying Army and Navy personnel of a Joint Assault Signal Company. A Japanese Aichi B7A Ryusei "Grace" aircraft flying low over the water in background. U.S. troops leaving an LST (Landing Ship Tank) and wading ashore. Some pushing a jeep through the surf. Members of a Joint Assault Signal Company running ashore with a spool of communications cable. Others carrying small arms climb out of an assault boat. Signal company soldiers laying communications cable as they move through jungle. Sailor aboard a U.S. warship ostensibly communicating with the signal company via light blinker. Naval gunfire bombarding enemy positions. Narrator's mention of air support is followed by anachronistic insert of U.S. Army B-10 bombers in formation flight; of bombardier in nose; and views of bombs falling. Next, a formation of B-25 Mitchell bombers is seen in flight and bombs falling. Back in the jungle, signal company men string wire on palm tree. Field artillery firing. Soldiers hunkered down in a shell hole. Signal company soldier using SCR-300-A Radio set.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War 2. A beach on the Philippine island of Mindanao. U.S. aircraft in flight over the coastline. Signal Officer Lieutenant Leon Tinnell works at the Signal Headquarters. He talks on the radio receiver. He radios a message to U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters reporting on movement of Japanese troops. U.S. aircraft take off for a mission against the Japanese troops. They drop bombs on Japanese ships. Smoke from fire due to the explosions. A U.S. submarine near a battleship at sea. U.S. Navy sailors aboard the ship and the submarine. Wounded and sick officers and soldiers including Lt. Tinnell are transferred from the submarine onto the ship. Soldiers carry a comrade on a stretcher. Landing crafts approach an island in the Philippines. General MacArthur and Allied troops land at Leyte Island on October 20, 1944. They leave the crafts off shore and wade through the water towards the beach. Signal Corps officers record the event as General MacArthur and the others make their way inland.
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