U.S. Marine Commander of Wake Island, James Devereux returns from Japan in Washington DC. Paddy son of Commander James wait at a railroad station to greet his father. A close up of Paddy. James Devereux gets off the train. His son greets him. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, head of marine corps greets Devereux at the station. James Devereux with his son Paddy poses. Under Secretary of Navy Artemus L. Gates awards him the Navy Cross. Men in the background take pictures. Gates shakes hands with James Devereux. Paddy looks at him. Paddy shakes hands with his father.
Mock up of a USAAF (United States Army Air Forces ) B-29 Stratofortress aircraft developed as the Boeing Stratocruiser, a future aircraft, in Seattle, Washington. The Stratocruiser plane in a hangar. Passengers board the Stratocruiser and are seated inside. A man plates food in the galley. A stewardess serves food to the passengers. Passengers descend down spiral staircase to the lounge area. A flight attendant serves drinks and cocktails to the passengers seated in the lounge. A woman enters a washroom in the Stratocruiser. She looks into a mirror as she combs her hair and grooms herself.
Attack sleds designed for U.S. soldiers in Italy. Troops in prone position inside the sleds. An officer looks at the soldiers inside the sleds. He helps one of the soldiers to put his gun inside the sled. A small tank pulls the sleds through mine fields. The tank crashes through a tree and a stone wall while pulling the attack sleds. (World War II period).
A U.S. Army staff car displaying a bumper plate with three stars, arrives at a building in Nieuwkerk, Netherlands, being used as headquarters of the U.S. Ninth Army's XVI Corps. Military policemen guard the entrance. Occupants step from the car. Next, Ninth Army Commander, Lieutenant General William H. Simpson, is seen standing in front of the building, with XVI Corps Commander, Major General John B. Anderson (momentarily hatless). In next scene both generals pose (Anderson now wearing his steel helmet). As the two converse, a British staff car drives up. The two American generals salute, as British Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery steps from the car. Next, Montgomery stands in the street, removing his overcoat (with a little difficulty), as he chats with the two U.S. generals. A military photographer, in the background, takes pictures. The three leaders continue their conversations on the sidewalk in front of the building. Closeup of Marshal Montgomery speaking as two army photographers are seen, along with some town dwellings, in the background.
The Battle of Okinawa in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A group of U.S. Marines at a command post looks at a chart of a combat area. A Marine looking through a binocular. Another Marine stands holding the binocular and other stand behind him. U.S. Marines in a foxhole. A Marine in a partial foxhole with a mortar. The Marines in a trench look out over an open valley with binoculars. Smoke columns rise in a distance due to mortar fire. Marine communications squad lays telephone wires toward advance position. The Marines laying the wires. A group of Marines seated discuss and one of them puts on a mask. The Marine advance. A Marine carries mortar parts on his shoulders. A USMC (United States Marine Corps) sniper with a telescopic lens on a rifle shoots across the valley. The Mortar Squad firing. Phosphorous smoke shells hit the ground in the open valley and lay a smoke screen. A Marine speaks over a telephone and another smokes a cigar.
The Battle of Okinawa in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. U.S. Marine command post men lying flat on the ground. The Marines advance across an open field. A Marine advancing in the open field. Three Marines at a command post near the top of a ridge. A tank advancing in the background.
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