British civilians in the streets on 'Victory in Europe Day' (VE Day) in United Kingdom. Cars and buses move along the streets. A huge crowd on the streets. People wave flags. A British soldier sits on a statue. Large number of men and women gather to celebrate the VE Day. A group of men stand in front of an automobile. 'Evening news' written on the automobile. An advertising banner on the street. A huge crowd on the street. People carry British flags. A boy stands in the street. (World War II period).
Allied occupation of Germany at the close of World War Two. Allied military vehicles pass through a village near Nuremberg, Germany. The military vehicles move along a road. Pedestrians walk along the road. Jeeps, tanks and trucks advance along the country road. Vehicles pass along a German road block. United States aviation engineers are loaded on the vehicles to reconnoiter new airfields in Germany. They pass a destroyed German Hetzer Jagdpanzer 38 light tank destroyer (Sd.Kfz. 138/2). Street scenes in the village. United States P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft in flight overhead.
A newsreel compilation of several unrelated shots. A P-40 of the 57th Fighter Group takes off from deck of the USS Ranger (CV-4). In an unrelated shot, a view looking back past tail of an aircraft after takeoff, with the USS Enterprise behind. A Douglas SBD Dauntless airplane takes off from a Yorktown class carrier. View back past its tail in a pre-war shot as an airplane leaves the Lexington behind. On Feb. 20, 1942, during World War 2, while en route to attack Rabaul,in New Guinea, the Lexington is attacked by eighteen Japanese planes. She shoots down several of them. Machine gunners firing. Bombs bursting in water near the ship. An F4F with collapsed landing gear near edge of flight deck. Black smoke rising from burning Japanese plane in water. Sky blackened with flak. Machine gun tracer bullets visible. Inserted scenes show the stern of a British carrier, and views of a bombing attack in the Mediterranean against a British Illustrious class carrier. Another inserted scene shows a lone sailor running the length of the flight deck on the USS Enterprise in the Battle of Santa Cruz. A Japanese airplane bursts into flames. Another is struck and dives trailing smoke.( An inserted view of U.S. Douglas TBD Devastators peeling off and launching torpedoes.) Douglas Dauntless aircraft recovering back on the Lexington. Flight deck full of aircraft as the Lexington makes way in the Pacific. Animated segment showing numerous drawings of aircraft carriers and airplanes headed toward Japan. (Inserted view of Four U.S. aircraft carriers, USS Lexington, USS Ranger, USS Yorktown, and USS Enterprise seen together in prewar maneuvers.)
Military Training Grounds in Montreal, Canada during World War 1. Canadian recruits, in uniform, are given realistic training in trenches similar to those in the battlefields of Europe for World War I. They crouch in trenches and fire their weapons including machine guns. Two men climb a raised platform and fire a machine gun concealed by brush. Officers stand outside a sandbagged bunker as new recruits, still in civilian clothes, follow several uniformed soldiers out of the bunker. Sign on bunker reads: "Enlist Here." Recruits in uniform, work in field digging trenches and dugouts.
Coast Guard cutter 'Point Grey' in open waters in Vietnam. The crew of the boat stands on the deck. USCG (United States Coast Guard) R. Mitchell at the wheel in the wheelhouse. Lieutenant Junior Grade Rozoski stands in the background. Two men cover a 50 caliber machine gun on the craft. The craft underway at a high speed. Coastline in the background. Captain John T. Shepherd fires a 45 caliber submachine gun. Two crewmen stand by. A Swift Boat underway. A PCF-4 boat underway. A small junk boat passes by. The Commanding Officer Lieutenant Bitner talks with Mr. Baldwin of New York Times.
A view of an P-51K Mustang of the 41st Fighter Squadron, 35th Fighter Group on an airstrip at Clark Field in Manila, Philippines, near end of World War 2 . A pilot climbs into the cockpit of the aircraft. An airplane lands and a fuel truck drives past in the background. Mountains in the far background. The pilot starts the engine and prepares to taxi. Fuel begins to slosh and spill from his left auxiliary drop tank. It continues as he begins to taxi. A new sequence shows nose of P-51 and propeller, then switches to pilot climbing into cockpit.
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