The activities and joint demonstrations by the United States Readiness Command (USREDCOM), Brass Key II at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. U.S. Air Force OV-10 Bronco aircraft in flight. They drop bombs over the target area. Smoke arises from explosion. USAF F-4 Phantom II aircraft in flight. Aerial view of the attack on ground target by the aircraft. U.S. Air Force A-7 Corsair aircraft attacks the ground target with 2.7 inch rockets, and then with high-drag Mark 82 Snake-eye bombs. The fins on the bombs slow their descent and permit a low-altitude bombing run with successful aircraft escape. Smoke from explosion on the ground. Ground support elements fire different artillery weapons including 105, 155, and 8 inch Howitzer.
Animated map shows the front line of battle, between Republican and Nationalist forces, running West of Madrid from West Park through University City, during the Spanish Civil War. Camera pans across landscape, from a high vantage point, and then focuses on buildings of University City, where Nationalist forces have taken up positions in a palace with two pointed towers, and near a ruined clinical hospital. Republican troops are seen entering through a gate at the hospital, where the bearded Brigade Commander Jesús Martínez de Aragón is seen consulting with his staff. (Narrator notes that he died in the attack on the Casa del Campo soon after this scene was filmed.) Views of sandbagged buildings inside the hospital compound. The Brigade Commander is seen with some of his soldiers, while rebels are trying to move further into the clinic compound. His soldiers take up defensive positions inside clinic buildings, carrying heavy arms up the stairs. Republican defenders firing machine guns from inside the building, and moving through rubble to other positions. Views inside the clinic and sound of glass breaking. Continuous sound of machine gun fire. Two soldiers fire through a small hole in a concrete wall. View, from Republican defensive position, of a battle-scarred multistory building across the way. One of the soldiers writing a letter home (dated May 4, 1937). Another soldier rolls a cigarette.
Fascist Rebel bombardment of Madrid, during Spanish Civil War, angers population and promotes recruitment into the Republican Army. A group of men march down a street with a small boy, who appears to be in boy scout uniform, in the front rank, carrying a flag. Recruits are seen being organized into marching groups. Sidewalk in front of a railroad station is filled with new recruits. They march under direction of Republican soldiers. Motorcade of automobiles carrying Manuel Azana Diaz, President of Spain, stops surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd, in Valencia. The President steps from his car, enters a building, and delivers a speech emphasizing the democratic election of the government and decrying the need to defend it and the soil of Spain from fascist rebels. Scene shifts to several men in rural area, discussing the need to complete new irrigation projects in time for new defense of Madrid. They already have their pump and must build the pump house. One man types on a typewriter while another sketches the plan to pump water from the Rio Tajo (Tagus River), to irrigate crops. View of horse-drawn wagon loaded with cement for construction. Two men discussion construction plans. Masons using rudimentary methods to erect a pump house. Later view of pump house as men work on the roof. Men digging irrigationl canal from the river and upward toward the agricultural fields. A soldier who hitched a ride on a truck, jumps off. View of a letter he wrote a few days ago, on May 4th. He arrives at his house and is greeted by his mother. Farmers trimming plants in field to be irrigated. A boy calls one of them, his father, to come home.
Activities of United States Marine Corps in Iwo Jima, Japan during the Battle of Iwo Jima, World War II. Rocket launchers on trucks are moved into position. Evacuation of the wounded on litters. The wounded are drinking water. Firing of 4.5 inches rockets from a rocket battery. An airplane in flight over a target area. A marine reads a letter. Other marines seated on the ground. Two marines carry a wounded with them.
View of Diamond Head, framed by palm trees on Waikaki Beach, Oahu, Hawaii. Street scene with building. Inside, a sign reading: "Commander in Chief U.S. Pacific Fleet." In his office, Admiral Chester Nimitz is seen holding a staff meeting. He and one of his staff look over charts with magnifying glasses. Animated map shows prospective supply lines overwater to Australia from Pearl Harbor and Panama. View of U.S. supply ships in a convoy underway in the Pacific Ocean. Soldiers in life vests looking over the railing of a troop ship. Animated map shows threats from Japanese bases in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands in World War 2. Task Force 8, assembled around the Aircraft Carrier Enterprise (CV-6) prepares to attack Japanese positions in the Marshall Islands. The Cruiser, USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) in calm waters. Deck of the Aircraft carrier Enterprise, filled with F4F aircraft with engines running. A Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft takes off from the Enterprise. View from the carrier as the Cruiser Salt Lake City passes to starboard. U.S. Cruisers begin naval bombardment. Smoke rising from burning shore installation. Formation of Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft overhead. Port in Australia, with ships docked and a sentry patrolling. Soldiers waving from a troop ship arriving. Troops disembarking. Body of a P-38 aircraft being offloaded. A Cruiser docked at end of wharf.
Japanese occupation of Philippines during World War II. Film opens showing a formation of Japanese Nakajima Ki-67 (Army Type 4 Heavy Bombers, named "Peggy", by Allies) in flight. Japanese infantry soldiers are seen next, marching into the Philippines. Views of barbed wire fences and of stacks of artillery shells. View from rear of a column of infantry marching beside a road. Glimpse of abandoned sand-bagged defensive positions. A Japanese camp in the open with field artillery set up. Brief view of a Japanese Nakajima Ki-27 Type 97 Fighter (called "Nate" by Allies). Japanese infantry struggling through jungles. Brief view of a Japanese Aichi D3A Type 99 Carrier Bomber (Allied reporting name "Val") in flight. Scene shifts to Japanese infantry continuing past palm trees. A Japanese tank running over a slender tree. A Japanese open personnel carrier. Infantry carrying loads suspended from poles. Another view of a Nakajima Ki-67 heavy bomber in flight. A camouflaged Japanese type 97 tank moving forward. Japanese infantry moving single file across a bridge. Two Japanese soldiers riding atop a type 97 tank heading across the bridge heading toward the camera. Map showing the mountains of Bataan peninsula in Japanese. More views of infantry marching along the road. Horses are employed to move artillery pieces. More Nakajima Ki-67 bombers in flight. Japanese artillery firing. Japanese troops gathered and shouting "Banzai" on top of Mount Orion, Bataan.
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