Allied military operation in Brest France during World War 2. Capture of Brest, France: Animated map shows Allied troops entering into Brest. Aerial view of harbor in Brest. U.S. Army soldiers place and adjust heavy artillery. Artillery and P-47 aircraft bombard Brest. Smoke rises due to bombarding and firing. View of railroad yards partially destroyed by German sabotage, and partially from allied bombing. U.S. Army M18 Hellcat tank destroyer in action, firing in streets of city.
Activities of American First Army during offensive into Germany in World War 2. U.S. Army Air Force 9th Air Force planes strafe German positions near the town of Stolberg, then U.S. Army troops attack with machine guns (view from machine gun being fired at houses), heavy guns like the self-propelled 155 mm Gun Motor Carriage M12; and massed American 3rd Armored Division tanks acting as artillery in attacking Stolberg. Civilian refugees seen removing their belongings out of the battered city. An American soldier guards a German POW who assists a civilian in moving a loaded cart down a street. View of collapsed building and wreckage after the attack as Stolberg is cleared by forces of the U.S. Army 104th Division, facing booby traps and mines. U.S. forces blast structures that could not be safely cleared. After two weeks of attack, the American flag raised in the city. The 104th Division enters Eschweiler and smaller villages; mined buildings are detonated as tanks move through the towns. Mop up operations last two days as German snipers are cleared. Captured German prisoners are led through the town under U.S. Army guard. U.S. Infantry troops ride on tanks on streets of city. Soldiers carrying bedding walk on street on way to a dry night's sleep. Roadblocks are cleared by U.S. Engineer battalions, including an overhead bridge blown-up by retreating Germans. Units of the 104th Infantry and 3rd Armored division continue eastward and are seen fighting German forces in Weisweiler.
U.S. Marine Corps Sikorsky HRS-1 helicopters of HMR-161 Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron, First Marine Air Wing, transport troops and supplies during the Korean War. The USMC 'HR 2' flies over mountains. Marine sitting in open doorway of the chopper, in flight.. It lands among Marines at a mountainous outpost. U.S. Marines, in combat gear,leave the helicopter. They unload the helicopter and carry equipment away. Helicopters number 'HR 10' and "HR 11" landing with troops aboard. U.S. Marines leave the helicopters and proceed single file to their assigned positions. Marines unpacking supplies. They dig trench and set up a machine gun. Marines unpacking ammunition boxes, flares (Trip.M48), and hand grenades.
Colonel John M Hutchison directs operations via a walkie talkie in Marilanin, New Guinea. He talks over a phone. Views of American soldiers seated in a jeep. (World War II period).
Equestrian statue of General George Henry Thomas by sculptor, John Quincy Adams Ward, in Washington, DC. It was erected in 1879, at Thomas Circle, where Massachusetts Avenue, Vermont Avenue, 14th Street, and M Street, NW, converge. The National City Christian Church can be seen on the circle, in the background.
United States President Franklin Roosevelt visits the Tuskegee Institute (1200 W Montgomery Rd, Tuskegee, AL 36088, United States) of Tuskegee, Alabama. A motorcade of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor Frank M. Dixon and his official staff arrives at the Tuskegee Institute. Crowds of African American students welcome President Roosevelt. A choir of the institute sings. President Roosevelt seated in a car. He listens to a song. He puts on his cap. A group of school cadets sings a song for him. The President delivers a speech about the institution's achievements from the car. The students, the faculty and other school members applaud after his speech. The President is greeted by the school members. President Roosevelt leaves the institute.
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