Troops and supplies flowing towards the front during the Battle of Ancre in France during World War I. Horses taking supplies of shells to forward gun positions through a sea of mud. Soldiers place shells in bags suspended over sides of Horses. Some of the horses get bogged down in knee deep mud. The supply train, of horses carrying shells, stops for a rest. Mounted troops sip hot coffee. They continue and approach the forward positions passing aside a deep crater filled with water and then proceeding up on a ridge.
Troops drill at Camp John Hay in Baguio City, Philippines. View of the Bell Amphitheater (Historical Core, Camp John Hay, Baguio, Benguet). Igorot men perform a war dance. Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) cadets perform a drill on the Ateneo de Manila Intramuros campus in Manila. They march in uniforms with flags and guns. School band marches. Officers and a Jesuit priest (likely Ateneo de Manila Rector Father Henry C. Avery SJ) sit and watch the event. Cars parked in front of the Ateneo campus. An American officer decorates a cadet.
Families at harbor waiting for the troop transport ships. United States soldiers and liberated prisoners of war on ship. San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and harbor in background with Coit Tower atop Telegraph Hill. Troop ships arrive and crowd cheers. Japanese soldiers bonzai cheer and Japanese forces bomb and take control of Corregidor. Japanese planes bombing. Ambulance carries wounded. United States soldier loses his arm during a Japanese aerial attack on Corregidor in 1942. Japanese soldiers guard American prisoner of war soldiers and escort them into prison camp in Manila (soldier narrating says it was Bilibid jail). General Wainwright surrendering in Corregidor in May 1942. United States flag lowered by Japanese soldiers and Japanese flag is hoisted. Wreckage of bombed U.S. facilities in Philippines. Japanese propaganda film showing care for wounded American soldiers on hospital beds. U.S. Army prisoners fo war eat food. Wounded American soldiers walk with crutches on the grounds of the prison camp. Bataan Death March of the emaciated prisoners. American military prisoners at Cabanatuan labor and sleep on open air bunks. Scene of U.S. Army training early in World War 2 with troops in a field setting a machine gun emplacement to fire at rolling trucks relabeled as "Tank". Japanese propaganda newsreels showing Japanese military success in Philippines and Japanese forces in the Aleutian Islands. Aerial view formation of U.S. Army Air Force B-25 bombers in the sky. Aerial side view of American bomber aircraft and bombs away view. Navy bombing from ships. General MacArthur returns to Philippines and wades ashore. Philippine guerrillas and U.S. troops in battle to retake Philippines. U.S. prisoners of war liberated and freed and at 92nd Evacuation Hospital Cebu. Released prisoners on ships to America. WAC women hand out mail. Soldiers write telegram wires announcing arrival. Ship docks in San Francisco. Prisoners reunite with happy families and crowds on streets cheer their arrival. Soldiers and civilians walk on Market Street in San Francisco. Welcome home parade for San Francisco soldiers during WWII. Soldiers waving from buses in parade. Soldier in front of Marina Junior High School, 3500 Fillmore Street. One armed, disabled soldier with parents views photo album.
Tribute to war correspondent, Ernie Pyle in New Mexico. Newspaper column by Ernie Pyle, called "The ROVING REPORTER." In it Pyle mentions many places he could live, including the Pacific Northwest, New England, the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Key West, California, and Honolulu. Images of these places are shown. Farmers loading hay in the Northwest; A church in New England; A paddle wheeler ship on the Mississippi River; A seaplane coming in to land on the water at Key West, Florida; Aerial glimpse of Golden Gate Bridge; the Diamond Head mountain in Honolulu. But Pyle chose to live in Albuquerque New Mexico. View of a passenger train arriving at station in Albuquerque. The street and house where Ernie Pyle lived A woman on the porch of the house petting Pyle's dog Cheetah. Inside the house are views of his study, books, and photographic memorabilia. View of Pyle with American soldiers in World War 2. American troops marching in war zone. Troops trying to keep warm in snowy conditions, and advancing in street fighting and other places, firing at hidden enemies Scene shifts back to Pyle’s study at home and focuses on a map of New Mexico. Glimpse of Santa Fe and its Capitol building, and its old Palace of the Governors. Persons on horseback riding in the town of Taos, and views of its Pueblo village. Woman seated in village painting a scene of the village. Gravestone of famous Frontier Scout, Kit Carson. Street scene in downtown Gallup, New Mexico. Coal being moved in open rail cars from a mine near Gallup, New Mexico. Street scene in Roswell, New Mexico, and view of the New Mexico Military Institute with cadets marching in a field. View of Silver City, and of various metal ores being mined near there. Carlsbad Caverns, seen with visitors on a walkway in front of a huge opening and views inside the caverns where visiting children are singing the religious hymn "Rock of Ages." Views, back again to Ernie Pyle’s home, its study and living room, with his dog, named Cheetah, sitting on one of the chairs.
Academy grounds of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in United States. Two agents in a helicopter model near a tower. They are given training. They rappel from the helicopter model. They practice this again. They practice an 'all clear' signal to the helicopter.
Agents practice rappelling on the grounds of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Academy in Quantico Virginia. Two agents on the terrace of a tower. They descend the building via ropes. One then practices lowering another who is incapacitated. A man stands on the ground, training and guiding them.
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