U.S. planes of 8th Bomber Command flying over clouds during a mission in Germany. Scenes of navigator and bombardier at their positions. Animation of formation of planes and targeting strategies including firing of marking flares 5 seconds apart. Bombardier readying, seen working at instruments. Machine gunners in doors firing at enemy aircraft. Navigator sees on ground through navigation instrument. Bomb bay doors open. Targets bombed by the planes. Navigation of the area. An enemy plane shot down. (World War II period).
A Yugoslav soldier guarding. Marshal Josip Broz Tito, leader of the Yugoslav Partisans, with first Allied war correspondents to reach his headquarters in an undisclosed hiding location in Yugoslavia during World War II. Civilian people (mostly women and children) on roads in town of Drvar, which changed hands six times during fighting between Axis forces and Partisans. A horse pulled wagon; People with their cattle. Yugoslavian children sitting. Women cutting up silk from Allied supply parachutes, for use in creating bandages for Partisan soldiers. Group of women soldiers and men soldiers of Partisan forces, many of whom were students before the war. Partisan soldiers marching on roads and scenes of large columns of Partisan soldiers drilling and training in Italy for the war effort. Close-up views of faces of Partisan soldiers, both men and women. Marshal Tito standing.
Generals George Marshall, U.S. Army Chief of Staff and Mark Clark at advance quarters in Italy. General Clark decorates Distinguished Service Medal on General Alphonse Juin. General Marshall meets officers of 5th army.
U.S. 7th Army forces moving in Army trucks in the French Riviera (or Côte d'Azur) , during Allied Operation Dragoon, in World War 2. French citizens on side of the roads cheering. A U.S. Army tank goes by the crowd. Members of FFI (French Forces of Interior) decorated with Silver Star by General Alexander Patch ("Sandy" Patch) and French General De Lattre de Tassigny, in Saint Tropez. Scenes of city and harbor of Toulon. Destroyed docks and ships of French fleet, scuttled in 1942, listing or partially sunk at harbor. Dead bodies. Large artillery guns on scuttled French warships.
Governor Thomas Dewey, GOP Presidential nominee, meets a Native American Indian chief in Valentine, Nebraska. Cars moving in line. Indians on horses holding U.S. flag as his guard of honor. Dewey at huge barbecue held in his honor. Voters walk with Dewey at Sheridan, Wyoming. Dewey meets people with his wife.
The decorated Liberty ship SS John P. Harris (2877) at Savannah, Georgia. Mrs Eleanor Harris christens the Liberty ship in honor of her deceased husband, John P. Harris, who had been Senator from Pennsylvania and a pioneer movie exhibitor. The ship served the U.S. Army Transportation Service (USAT). It was built by Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation of Savannah Georgia.
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