Activities at a beach on Diego Garcia Island, Indian Ocean. U.S. airmen at the beach. They put on goggles, snorkels and feet paddles. They enter the water and dive. Buildings and picnic tables seen along the beach. Palm trees seen in the background.
Buildings at a beach on Diego Garcia Island, Indian Ocean. Buildings amid palm trees on the beach. A directional sign to a tailor shop. U.S. airmen walk on the streets. A stylized cross on a chapel wall. The entrance to the medical dental complex. Quarters and new buildings under construction.
Activities of U.S. airmen on Diego Garcia Island, Indian Ocean. The airmen tour old buildings and a plantation. They walk down an old railroad track. Plantations seen on either side of the track.
Activities at an air base on Diego Garcia Island, Indian Ocean. A pilot in the cockpit of the United States Air Force C-141A Starlifter aircraft. A runway on the air base as seen from the cockpit during a takeoff. Trees on either side of the runway.
Opening scene shows French Nieuport biplanes in aerial combat with German airplanes. Many are engaged in a massive dog fight. One monoplane is seen hit and falling toward the ground. Next, two French aircraft are seen returning to their base. They fly over a hangar where a crashed airplane sits with tail in the air. Near the hanger are several airplanes in various stages of maintenance. Mechanics are moving one. An airplane taxis in front of the hangar. Scene shifts to closeup of a Lafayette Escadrille Indian logo painted on a metal structure. Scene shifts to a formal award ceremony for some pilots and crews. Their squadron members are lined up behind them in front of a line of aircraft. The view is from behind a formation of French soldiers with rifles, rendering salutes. Next, French soldiers parade on the airdrome, led by a military band. At this point the scene phases out as a fireball is superimposed on a map of Europe, signifying World War 2. Adolf Hitler is seen in closeup near the Eiffel Tower, when he visits Paris, France following its occupation by German forces in 1940. Several views of German troops marching along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and through the Arch of Triumph. Closeups of some German soldiers in the ranks. Scene shifts to North Africa, in 1942, as American troops make an unopposed amphibious landing on the coast, in Operation Torch. Several landing craft are seen and troops ashore. A Dodge 3/4 ton WC-51 army truck, with half of its hood open, makes its way through the surf as it leaves a landing craft.
View of troop ship USS Wakefield on September 3, 1942 off the New England coast after a fire breaks out while the transport was en route to her destination. The ship at sea off the American coast. Smoke rises from the fire. (World War II period).
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