Bombardment of Iwo Jima (Japan) shoreline as seen from the deck of an American destroyer underway off the Iwo Jima Coast. Aircraft is spotted in the skies. Destroyer AA guns scan the skies. Smoke columns and landing craft on beach. Night firing scenes against Mount Suribachi. Tracer bullets fired from the destroyer. (World War II period).
On the North African Invasion by the Allied forces. U.S. Marines land on beachhead in North Africa. Marines take cover in fox holes and behind rocks. Marines fire their rifles. Tank with soldier atop it moves on beach. Soldiers take cover behind a sand bag emplacement and fires at the enemy. Smoke rises on distant hills from shell hits. Marines drink and rest. (World War II period).
On the North African Invasion by the Allied forces. U.S. Marines aboard Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) in North Africa. Smoke rises from shell hits at the beach. Several other amphibious crafts and ships underway in the water. Assault boats head toward beachhead. Marines aboard the LCVP head toward the beachhead. (World War II period).
Narrated feature on the Korean War and the arrival and initial reactions of 24th Division Army troops during the first 50 days of war. Soldiers boarding landing craft and landing on beaches. Tending wounded soldiers. Advancing on foot. U.S. Air Force supply land landing and soldiers unloading boxes from it. Troops assembling with gear. Soldier holding box containing food rations. U.S. Soldiers in line crossing bridges and into towns as Korean citizens look on. South Korean soldiers marching through villages, looking weary from war. Villagers carrying belongings and leaving a town. U.S. soldiers march through an empty town with all shops and homes closed. U.S. soldiers digging gun placements for artillery and machine guns. Soldiers cooking. One stirs pot with knife. Battle scenes with U.S. soldiers firing artillery, rifles, machine guns. Wounded on stretchers.
View of B-25 bombers flying towards Colletta and bombing the roadways there to stop the advance of the German 16th Panzer division toward allied landing parties on the Salerno beach. Bombers dropping bombs over targets below. Destroyed airstrip areas and smoke rising from the targets below. (World War II period).
Paestum,Italy during Operation Avalanche in World War 2. US. Army infantry soldiers board LCI landing crafts and move away from beach. Three barrage balloons flying above the ships. U.S. soldiers in the ship heading towards the sea. Ship passes by the submarine nets and advances out to sea.
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