United States Marines Corps on their way to invade the Japanese held Solomon Islands during World War II. A mail ship arrives and the Marines on the deck of the ship. U.S. Navy F4U Corsair aircraft in flight. Patrol boats underway. Marines on the bridge aboard a ship. The Marines climb down a landing net and come aboard a landing craft alongside the ship. Naval guns bombard Solomon coast. Landing crafts pull away. An aircraft in flight. Smoke rises from the coast due to bombarding. The landing crafts head towards a beach. Crafts arrive at the coast. Men put sand bags around a gun emplacement on the beach. A sign in Japanese. The United States flag being raised on the island.
An Allied campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Mechanics work on a U.S. Marine Corps SBD Dauntless aircraft. A man loads a gun aboard the aircraft. Bombs lying in a field. A man fuels the aircraft. A pilot gets in the cockpit of the aircraft. The aircraft takes off from a field. Men load a bomb under the wing of an SBD Dauntless aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off. A U.S. Navy F4U Corsair aircraft lands and taxis on a field.
Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein and his new bride Gretl Braun Fegelein, immediately after their civil ceremony wedding in Salzburg, Austria. Fegelein and Gretl Braun marries at Mirabell Palace (Schloss Mirabell, Mirabellgarten Mirabellplatz 4 5020 Salzburg). Head of the Schutzstaffel, Heinrich Himmler, raises a toast to the couple. They drink from silver cups that Himmler had presented them. Gretl being greeted by various Nazi officers. Fegelein talks to Martin Bormann. The newly married couple move out of the building. They get in a car and drive away.
U.S. 9th Air Force air attacks against France on the D-Day during World War II. U.S. 9th Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft and gliders marked with invasion stripes on an airfield in England. Airborne infantrymen on the airfield. Men load equipment aboard a CG-4A glider. Infantrymen board the aircraft. Air borne medical units board the aircraft. Tug aircraft and gliders being joined by a line. C-47 aircraft taxi and take off towing the gliders from the airfield. Aerial view of the aircraft on the air field. The aircraft fly over a light house. Aerial view of an invasion fleet underway in the English Channel for the invasion of Normandy. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder in flight over the English Channel. Ships and landing crafts at the Normandy beach. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauders blast communication lines in Normandy. Billows of smoke rises as bombs hit the targets. Aerial view of the invasion fleet heading towards Normandy.
Opening is drawing of a tiger and film title: "A tiger is a man." closeup of USAF Aviation Cadet Colonel's shoulder board. Next he is seen from the back, as he speaks to an Air Force Officer. Sign reads: "Headquarters, USAF Preflight School, Lackland AFB." Cadets are seen in blue uniforms and white gloves., marching in area between their barracks. Views of barracks with glimpse of two cadets "marching tours" on a special path. An Air Force officer and several cadets on walkways between the barracks. Closeup of clock showing 4:30 (AM). View of cadets asleep in their bunks. Suddenly the lights go on, and they all rise. Closeup of cadets shaving., hurriedly. Another brushing his teeth. A cadet making his bed with tight military corners. One places his shoe partly under the bunk mattress to hold it while he shines it. Shoes being placed with care using a cardboard to assure the toes align perfectly. Cadets hurrying to a formation.
Flames pour from base of an A-4 missile during tests in Peenemunde, Germany. As flames intensify, cable from adjacent tower fall away from the Rocket, which momentarily emits a circle of vapor around its midsection, as it rises from ground. the V-2 rocket rises rapidly and soon vanishes as a pinpoint of light in the distant sky. (World War II period).
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