A U.S. Marine holding a container of blood plasma, administers a transfusion, to a wounded marine in a stretcher on sands of Iwo Jima, during World War 2. Closeup of the wounded marine. Closeup of another marine having his wounds dressed with bandages. Closup of a smiling, but weary, marine. Smoke rising near the shore.
U.S. Marine infantry in defensive positions along a sand berm on Iwo Jima, during World War 2. Marine speaking on SCR-300 portable radio, and another looking through binoculars. In distance, marines are seen moving about on a broad barren stretch of land. They advance in groups to take up positions in hilly terrain. A Japanese shell bursts, followed by several more.
Formation of U.S Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers, flying over Iwo Jima during World War 2. View from one of the aircraft of Japanese air field below. Nightime view of American anti-aircraft fire directed at Japanese bombers attacking Saipan. Explosions and fire silhouetting American aircraft on Saipan's Isely field during Japanese air raid. Burning U.S. B-29 bombers. Scene changes to Japanese aircraft destroyed on the ground at the air base on Iwo Jima. Bodies of dead Japanese airmen on the air field. Later view of P-51Ds from the 21st Fighter Group at Central Field on Iwo Jima, in the summer of 1945,after the field had been substantially upgraded to allow B-29 operations. A B-29 is seen displaying an "F" tail code. A formation of B-24 Liberator bombers in flight on a bombing raid. Waist gunner inside a B-24 firing at attacking Japanese fighter aircraft. A Japanese fighter going down in flames at night. View from a B-24 of another, off its left wing, flying in formation with its number 3 engine shutdown and propeller feathered. View from B-24 bombing oil facilities at Balikpapan, Borneo. Bombs bursting on the ground. Glimpse of B-24s in formation. Aerial views of bomb bursts carpeting target areas below. Aerial view of B-24s flying above smoke rising rapidly from bombs bursting below. View of bomb craters left below (probably from later reconnaissance flight).
Bombing raids by Allied bombers in Philippines, in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Bomb explosion at target buildings and Japanese military bases and trenches. Smoke from a Japanese base exploded by bombs. Japanese fighter planes at an air base. The planes get destroyed when the Allied bombers raid the air base. Wrecked barracks of Japanese military at their base exploded and burnt by bomber raids. General Douglas MacArthur and other Allied Military Generals walk on streets of Philippines after its liberation from the Imperial Japanese forces.
Air raids and battle in Japan in the Pacific Theater near the end of World War II. A cemetery of United States military soldiers in the Japanese island of Okinawa. Memorial at the tombstone of Ernie Pyle built by the 77th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. General Doolittle, General Henry Arnold, General George Kenney, General Ennis Whitehead and other officers during a discussion standing before planes at the 48th Air Force base. B-29 aircraft advances towards Tokyo. Bomber aircraft dropping of a number of guided bombs towards their targets. Targets include Japanese airplane factories, shipping industry, military supply chains in the cities of Tokyo, Nagasaki, Nagoya, Okinawa and Yokohama of Japan. Explosion and smoke arises from bombed targets on ground. Aerial wide and close up views of a B-29 aircraft in flight. Narrator notes that on 05 August 1945, Enola Gay, a B-29, carries the atomic bomb and flies towards Hiroshima. Atomic explosion seen signifying the one in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, but narrator indicates the image seen is that of the first atomic explosion (the Trinity test) during on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico. Immense cloud of smoke and light. This atomic explosion, the first of two, was pivotal in compelling Japan to surrender unconditionally. Film ending includes public service announcement image "Buy Bonds. Hold Them. Victory Loan."
Military plane circles overhead. Israeli soldier and woman sort through supplies in boxes. Houses of an encampment or possibly kibbutz destroyed by bombing. A house damaged by battle in Arab-Israeli War. Walls of the house perforated with bullets. A man carries out a calf from a destroyed barn. He feeds the calf. Soldiers in thickets look for food and cut fruit from trees. Israeli Defense Forces soldier (IDF) preparing a chicken to cook, and other food to eat. He sits with a woman and another man.
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