OSS (Office of Strategic Services) activities in Burma during World War II. Douglas C-47 Skytrain in flight. Parachutists jump from the plane. Views of ruins. Graves of men killed in action. Damaged aircraft. A patrol going out on a reconnaissance mission.
U.S. propaganda film during World War 2 aimed at spurring investment in U.S. War Bonds. Narrator opens and closes film asking audience "Have you killed a Jap today?" Scenes of American workers at munitions and ware equipment factories. Images (some real footage and some staged) of Japanese soldiers murdering Chinese civilians, bombing and burning Chinese cities, burying Chinese civilians alive, and executing Chinese civilians and American soldiers. Bodies of Chinese dead being loaded into trucks. Narrator explains that investment in U.S. War Bonds, fueling manufacture of armament and war supplies can bring justice against Japanese atrocities and kill Japanese soldiers. American people working in factories. Iron being forged. Workers work at factory machines. They shovel coal into a combustion chamber. Skyline views of San Francisco, Chicago, Pittsburgh and New York. U.S. War Bond for $100 is shown. American tanks, trucks, shells, airplanes and guns used to fight Japanese soldiers. Views of dead Japanese soldiers lying on the ground and on screen messaging, "Every War Bond kills a Jap!" encouraging Americans to buy war bonds in bond drive number 6.
American fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker and Colonel Hunter in Europe during World War II. A United States Army Air Forces A-20 Havoc light bomber parked at the end of a ramp. A group of officers gathered around a truck mounted with a 50 caliber machine gun. The A-20 Havoc aircraft in the background. Eddie Rickenbacker shows pilots how to use the machine gun. Rickenbacker behind the gun. An officer in the background. Eddie Rickenbacker and Colonel Hunter. A bomb service truck with a bomb carriage and a trailer attached to it drives past. The truck stops in front of the A-20 Havoc. Eddie Rickenbacker, Col. Hunter and the officers inspect the bombs as the bomb service crew unloads the trailer. Eddie Rickenbacker and Col. Hunter inspecting the bombs. They inspect the smaller bombs. Two 2000 pound bombs on the trailer. Eddie Rickenbacker and Col. Hunter inspect the 2000 pound bombs.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan of Waterloo, Iowa receive Purple Heart medals from Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward at Navy Headquarters in Washington, D.C. USA. They receive the Purple Hearts in memory of their five sons who all died together while serving aboard the USS Junea on November 13, 1942. Brief shot of woman rocking in a chair while holding a young boy in her arms. Close up of Purple Heart medal in case. The Sullivans holding all five Purple Hearts together.
Slate reads, "Hero Battle Ship X revealed to be USS South Dakota" Aerial view of USS South Dakota at sea with airplane wing tip in foreground. Sailors assembled on the deck of the USS South Dakota. Overhead view of ship's guns. The ship had been dubbed "Battleship X' for reporting to the press around January 1943 when it was undergoing repairs. Guns firing on the USS South Dakota. An officer speaks.
Allied soldiers wading up onto a beach in the Pacific during WWII. A soldier crouched on the beach and looking out to sea. A tank emerges from a landing craft and drives onto the beach. Troops run through the jungle. A soldier carries a wounded comrade on his back while another soldier follows. Soldiers hunker down to start setting up their machine guns. A dead allied soldier in a ditch. Planes dive bomb a distant beach area. Spray of sand and water on horizon as bombs hit beach.
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