During visit to 101st Airborne Division at RAF Welford airfield in Berkshire County, England, General Eisenhower is seen smiling while standing on a reviewing platform, along with British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill,Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, and Brigadier General Maxwell Taylor, Commander of the 101st. Eisenhower smiles and uses binoculars to watch as 1,500 U.S. paratroopers are dropped from C-47 transport aircraft flying overhead. After the demonstration, Churchill, Eisenhower, and Taylor,enter the back back seat of an open Dodge 3/4-ton T214 vehicle, being used as a staff car. The car proceeds along a road, with driver and a British official in the front seat. Colonel George S. Wear, Commander,327th Glider Infantry Regiment (GIR), is seen standing with officers of his unit. Prime Minister Churchill addresses troopers of the 101st Division, while standing in the staff car. General Eisenhower stands among the soldiers listening. Colonel Wear and officers of the 327th GIR, including a Chaplain, are seen applauding.
U.S. 4th Armored Division in Czechoslovakia during World War II. Czech patriots rounding up traitors , spies, and alleged collaborationists who aided the German Nazis in World War 2. The patriots hit the accused men and women collaborationists, beat them, and take them to a waiting truck to take them to jail. Buildings along street sides. People gather on a street. A soldier giving a candy to a baby held by her mother.
U.S. 4th Armored Division in Czechoslovakia during World War II. People walking on a street. Buildings along street sides. Trucks parked on the street. People gather outside a building. Soldiers in the building with some officers.
U.S. 4th Armored Division in Germany during World War II. Some civilians standing on a side of a street. Soldiers aboard a truck passing on the street. A convoy of German vehicles and motorcycles moves past a traffic barrier. They come in to surrender, probably in Reims, Germany
A bomb explodes on aircraft carrier USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34) underway at sea off the coast of Korea. An aircraft takes off from the carrier. The F4U Corsair lands and a general-purpose bomb is released accidentally while landing. The bomb explodes and several men including the cameraman (Thomas McGrath) who was taking photographs are killed.
The 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in Australia during World War 2. A camera repair truck driving up to an airplane. Camera repairmen load magazines in a United States Army Air Force P-38 Lightning photographic airplane (P-38E/F-4 Lightning serial 41-2156, "Limpin' Lizzie"). A pilot ( possibly 2LT Harold Moffat) arrives in a jeep and inspects the airplane. A gasoline truck fills the tank on the airplane. The pilot climbs on a wing and puts on a parachute and then gets in the cockpit. The pilot seated in the cockpit. He does a radio check with the communication tent. The P-38 warms up. The aircraft taxis.
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