Allied soldiers advance during the Italian Campaign of World War Two. View of an Italian town. Wrecked German artillery pieces. U.S. crew climbs aboard M8 Personnel Carrier. Allied troops reconnoitering along a roadside. The drop to the ground in response to gunfire. Smashed German tanks. Allied soldiers climb on and in the tanks, looking for Germans. Allied troops cautiously explore woods and abandoned German bunkers. An Allied infantry patrol passes destroyed German armor and artillery pieces. Two American soldiers display a huge Nazi flag that they then stomp upon. Italian women and children walk through the rubble of their town and fetch water in a bucket. A mother washes her childs face. Another mother feeds her infant. Italian civilians gather around a picnic table in shade of a tree and pose for the camera.
Invasion of Danzig by the Germans on 1st September, 1939 during World War II. Citizens of Danzig read poster proclaiming Danzig a part of the Greater German Realm. People crowd outside a building. Nazi troops use field artillery and Steyr ADGZ M35 Armored car to attack Polish defenders housed in the Post Office Building at Heveliunsplatz. Sudetenland written on an armored vehicle. The building is severely damaged from German shelling. Hitler arrives at the Kroll Opera House, where the Reichstag is meeting. He steps from his car and walks very rapidly into the building. Some members of his entourage stumble to keep up with him. View of Hitler addressing the Reichstag about Danzig and Poland. German troops driving into Danzig in SD Kfz 7 half-tracks are greeted enthusiastically by the crowds.
Aerial view of the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, underway on the surface and then submerging. View of helmsman below in the Nautilus. Aerial view of frozen arctic ocean with deep crevasses, as narrator mentions the Nautilus traveling submerged, beneath the North Pole on August 3, 1958. The boat's Captain, Commander William R. Anderson, is seen in uniform. More views of the Nautilus moving on the surface, including one with crew members standing on deck. Next, a newspaper headline is shown, announcing Alaska's statehood. Small boy and girl sitting in the grass holding a flag displaying map of Alaska and reading: "Alaska 49th State." Automobile traffic driving into Anchorage, Alaska. Banner stretched across the road reads: "Anchorage. All-America City." Pedestrians jam the sidewalks as the city celebrates its new statehood. A float displaying a huge moose has sign on its side reading: "49th. Hey Texas. Now I'm the biggest Bull..." Young Alaskans ride in a convertible automobile. A huge 48-star American flag covers the front of a building. It has a large extra star appended to it. Closeup of the flag.
A film titled 'Mariana Thunderbolts' shows the Pacific campaign of World War II fought on the Island of Saipan, Mariana Islands. The first 7th AAF (Army Air Forces) P-47s catapulted from naval carriers. The first combat tests of napalm incendiary bombs by the P-47s. P-47s fire first rockets. A dock area showing the piles of equipment being loaded onto LSTs (Landing Ships, Tank) in Hawaii. A bulldozer being loaded into the LST. A power vehicle used to pull grading equipment also loaded into the LST. The dock area shows huge piles of supplies. Bellows Field in Hawaii shows mechanics working on P-47 aircraft. Landing gears, engines, and all phases of overhaul being done on the P-47s prior to loading them onto aircraft carriers. Mechanics crate aircraft parts and supplies in boxes prior to loading cargo onto the ships. They taxi out the P-47s and line them up for inspection. Several men lying and sitting on the runway facing two long rows of parked P-47s. Inspection officers, Commanding Officer of the U.S. 318th Fighter Squadron Colonel L. M. Sanders and Commanding Officer of the U.S. 19th Fighter Squadron Major Harry McAfee walk through the double row of parked P-47s.
Preparing fighter planes for strike missions against Japan, Island of Saipan, Mariana Islands in World War II. P-47 Thunderbolts serviced and readied for strafing, dive bombing, and fire bomb strikes by U.S. personnel on Aslito Airfield. 318th Fighter Group Commander Colonel L. M. Sanders discusses the next strike with 19th Squadron Commander Major Harry McAfee. Pilots are briefed by officer. Men preparing planes for strike missions. A man holding Japanese flag. Man working on wing of P-47 Thunderbolt fighter. Soldier loads 50 cal machine gun belt onto aircraft. Demolition bombs transported on airfield. Men loads bombs and rockets onto a P-47.
Operation Piranha in Cap Batangan, Vietnam. A U.S. Marine Corps UH-1E helicopter flies low over a beach area. An LVTP-5 moves towards the beach. Photographers in the foreground shoot movies. A marine on the top of an LVTP-5 with an M-14 rifle. LVTP-5s on the beach. LCU-1477 (Landing Craft Utility) heads onto the beach. Marines in surf head towards the beach area from the LCU-1477. A group of marines disembark on the double from an LVTP-5. The marines advance inland on the double over the beach area. LVTP-5s move through surf towards the beach. The marines up on a hill facing a wooded area. Some of the marines advance inland. An LVTP-5 with a grader on its front moves along a pathway. The marines come up in the background. The LVTP-5 on the hill side moves inland towards the trees. (Vietnam War period).
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