Office of Strategic Services officers on a military mission in Burma during World War II. Douglas DC-3 transport aircraft in flight. OSS officers jump from the DC-3 transport aircraft. Parachutes descend. Interior of the aircraft: OSS officers look out from a window. An officer loads gun shells into guns. DC-3 transport airplanes fly over a forest area. Aerial views of mountains and the ground. Interior of the aircraft shows the officers standing at the door of an aircraft and dropping supplies via parachute.
Crews of American young men loading up and organizing for training in fire fighting duties, circa 1920. Unemployed workers in lines and waiting queues in 1933 during Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the formation of Civilian Conservation Corps. Civilian Conservation Corps men of the forest service, at work, setting up telephone poles, stringing wire, building roads, building fire lookout towers, and helping to fight fires.
A forest fire in Topanga, California. The fire spreads over Topanga and Las Flores Canyons in California. Flames rise from the area. Smoke rises due to the fire. Fire fighters try to extinguish the fire as they spray water.
People are seen skiing down the slopes of snow covered mountains in Utah. Then, an avalanche of snow is shown across a valley. It thunders down the mountainside covering trees and everything in its path and rapidly approaches the camera position. Scene shifts to a Snow Ranger of the U.S. Forest Service. View of badges worn by such Rangers. View of the Snow Ranger headquarters in Alta, Utah, where avalanche studies are conducted. Camera pans along a swath of deep snow on a mountainside.
German troops fight the Allied Forces in France during World War II. A map of the Western Front of France. Soldiers of French Commander Joseph Darnand's Vichy French Militia lined up. Captured members of the French underground are marched off. German officers check travel documents on a French highway. A farmhouse is set ablaze in a search for underground members and 'invasion' currency circulated by the Allies. German Field Marshal Günther von Kluge confers with his staff. A German antiaircraft downs an Allied airplane. German paratroopers in fight with the Allied Forces in a forest. Allied ships off a coast.
U.S. troops battle enemy in France during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive towards the end of World War I. Artillery explosions on a field. U.S. troops in prone positions fire guns in the forest of Argonne. Smoke billows up from artillery explosions on a field. U.S. troops run across the field under artillery attack