Soldiers walk on a road in France during World War II. French soldiers move down the road in a column. Buildings along a side of the street. Trucks loaded with soldiers drive past on the road. U.S. soldiers walk along the road.
Soldiers of the 36th Infantry Division, their shoulder badges clearly visible, in central France during World War 2. The soldiers at the front. They sit behind knolls and in foxholes. A soldier watches through binoculars. Others holding rifles are seated. Signalmen fix telephone wires. Smoke rises from bursting of shells from behind the lines. A road behind the front. A Sherman tanks moves past. The tank is driven up and a GI gets aboard. The soldiers watch as the tank moves past. Trees in the area. Soldiers standing around and sitting on roadside watch as tanks move past. Smoke rises from busting of shells in the field below. The soldiers look at the smoke. GI relaxes next to road sign for Baudoncourt 2km.
U.S. soldiers in France during World War II. A soldier sits near a road marker. He smokes. Other soldiers lying in ditches at the front. A soldier throws a phosphorous grenade out in a field. Smoke rises from the explosion. Soldiers dig up an unexploded shell. A sapper with a mine detector.
United States Army Air Forces General John Kenneth Cannon in Corsica, France during World War II. General Cannon and group seated in chairs on a field. They watch a demonstration on a map at a briefing. The group watches the demonstration. General Cannon and two officers seated. The officers stand and talk. They walk away from the area.
United States Army Air Forces General John Kenneth Cannon in Corsica, France during World War II. General Cannon in a field. Officers seated in a jeep arrive near him. U.S. Army General Jacob "Jake" Loucks Devers dismounts and greets him. Generals Cannon and Devers talk. They walk into a house. Exterior of a Corsican town. General's trailer and a camouflage net.
Evaluation of Japanese bomb-carrying balloons sent across the Pacific to the United States by Japan during World War 2. Gun camera footage of American fighter planes from Aleutian Island bases firing at Japanese balloons en route to the Pacific coast of the United States. A balloon bomb which reached the shores of the United States. but did not explode is examined by United States Army soldiers. They unfold the rice paper parachute portion of the balloon and examine its construction. Close-up views of the balloon control mechanism are shown, including a circular frame that would hold anti-personnel and incendiary bombs. Details of the wet cell battery and ballast weights are shown, including barometric aneroid switches which would operate to release ballast from simple hooks, as needed, to control balloon altitude. Narrator indicates it is believed the main purpose of the bombs was to start brush and forest fires.
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