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Views of destruction and privation in Italy. Views of Corsica and Alta Air Base, there, during World War II.

Camera positions in aircraft P-47. Camera installed behind pilot, under the wing, in the wing, and the wheel well. Pilot's hand at instrument panel. Actor James Stewart reads a passage from a book about the film'Thunderbolt' depicting U.S. Air Forces operations flying P-47 aircraft, during World War II. A ship in a harbor. Ruined buildings at Italian port town. Italian civilians pass on street. Ruined buildings in town. Horse-drawn carts pass along road. Men and women in rubble. Face of an old lady. Refugees on Kimble Bridge. Children in rubble-strewn street. Skeleton of dead bombing victim in rubble. Clouds settled over mountains. A river and waterfall as seen from aircraft. Aerials of town on banks of river. Ruins of Italian towns. Wrecked train. Map highlights Corsica, Mediterranean Sea and Sicily. Island of Corsica. A family with animals being watered at a fountain. Several people posing outside the "Bar Napoleon."Corsican people on street. A graveyard containing German war dead. Man climbs control tower at Alto Air Base in Corsica. Crew at work on airfield. Unfuzed bombs are casually rolled off a moving trailer onto the ground. Man refuels P-47. A soldier sleeps in tent. Men in tents and outside get ready for mission in morning. Airman looks into mirror. Airmen wear uniform and comb hair. Men wash faces and shave. Men brush teeth. Also shows morning activities of a Captain. Aerials of Alto Air Base. Men on look out tower. A Lieutenant smokes pipe. Airmen enter tent and get instructions from officer. Men around chart.

Location: Corsica France Alto Air Base
Date: 1944
Duration: 9 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051966
P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft attack enemy targets under Operation Strangle.

Map of Italy shows narrowest part of peninsula where U.S. and British armies are stationed. Map highlights Anzio and Cassino. A building on top of mountain. On island of Corsica, Lt Gen Ira C Eaker, commanding general of the Mediterranean Air Forces, Maj Gen John K Cannon, leader of the Twelfth Air Force, and Brig Gen Gordon Seville of the Twelfth Tactical Air Command, plan Operation Strangle. By animation the operation is explained where pilots of Fifty-Seventh Fighter Group is required to bomb behind enemy lines and cut off the transport of enemy supplies using the P-47 Thunderbolt. Shows destroyed bridges. P-47s taxi at airfield. P-47s parked in flight line. Crew chiefs in canopy of the plane and inspect other sections of plane. Pilots board planes. Planes take off from runway. P-47s in flight over sea, mountains and a castle. P-47s in flight behind squadron leader. P-47s in flight over clouds. P-47s peel off above the bridge. An incendiary bomb is dropped on a bridge. More bridges are bombed. Explosions on bridges. P-47 in flight over fields and railroad tracks. One train spotted. P-47 strafing moving trains. Trains explode. P-47 in flight over coastline and pilot in cockpit. P-47 strafing installations and ground targets. (World War II period).

Location: Corsica France Alto Air Base
Date: 1944
Duration: 17 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051967
John Edgar Hoover talks about German saboteurs captured in the U.S. and other enemy agents during World War 2.

Opening scene depicts (dramatized) the presence of German submarines off the Atlantic Coast, delivering Nazi German saboteurs of Operation Pastorius to Long Island, New York and to Florida in 1942. View of German submarines in the ocean. A scientist in a FBI laboratory examines explosives found when the sabotage attempt was uncovered, including blocks of TNT and explosives designed to look like lumps of coal. J. Edgar Hoover describes how the explosives were designed to target American citizens and war industries during World War 2. Paddy wagons with military guards standing on read door platforms are seen entering court facility in Washington DC. View inside the paddy wagons of German agents ("submarine saboteurs") being brought to military trial. View of the accused and the military officers of the court sitting in court during the trial. Military judges are seen seated during the trial proceedings. View of a wall of file cabinets and a hand reaching into a cabinet marked "secret." Past events show Adolf Hitler in meetings with his staff. An animated map shows Nazi symbol overlaying an outline of the United States. A United States flag in the background. The director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) John Edgar Hoover in the United States. He sits at a desk in his office. He talks about enemy agents, Hitler's desire to punish the United States, and the victory of the United States over them.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054488
Soldiers and correspondents move from the American flying boat PBY Catalina to a small boat in the Pacific Theater.

The soldiers and war correspondents aboard PBY Catalina of the 2d Emergency Rescue Squadron being transferred from Motorai Island in New Guinea to Mindanao in Philippines during World War II. Few vessels in the ocean. The PBY Catalina carrying the soldiers and war correspondents prepares to land on water. Several vessels in the ocean. A small boat carrying men approaches the flying boat after it has landed on water. Men with belongings transfer from the PBY Catalina to the small boat. The boat moves away.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1944, October 20
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054896
U.S. General MacArthur, Admiral Mitscher and the troops on the Leyte beach during Philippines Campaign of World War II.

Philippines Campaign in Philippines during World War II. Smoke rising as the U.S. invasion fleet shells the beach of Leyte in Philippines Island. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Mitscher, with other officers on a landing craft. The troops on several landing crafts. The U.S. battleships in view. The General with the troops on the Leyte beach. The landing crafts on the shore by which the troops arrived. The General and the troops walk among the trees. Battered houses of the villages in view. The troops near a damaged house. Troops on a field.

Location: Leyte Philippines
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054917
United States aircraft from USS Cowpen attack on Japanese DD in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

U.S. aircraft from USS Cowpen attacks a Japanese Destroyer (DD) off the coast of Eniwetok and Truk Island in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Japanese Destroyer fires back at the U.S. aircraft. Strafing attack on a Japanese Freighter at anchor. Strafing attack on a Japanese landing craft. U.S. aircraft combat with the Japanese aircraft. A ship burns and oil fire on the water. Explosions on and around the destroyer.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055352
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