United States Sherman tanks with T34 rocket launcher mounted aboard it being used against Germany during World War II. American soldiers launch rockets from a T34 rocket launcher mounted on a United States M4 Sherman tank in European Theater during world War II. Soldiers arm the rockets as they work on them. Rockets being loaded onto the launcher mounted on a Sherman tank. Rockets being launched at German positions. Rockets being launched at night.
United States soldiers fight along the Austrian border near Scharnitz Pass in Austria during World War Two. Infantrymen of Companies A,B, and C, 1st Battalion, 409th Regiment, 103rd Division, fire rifles at German positions in wooded hills, across a snow covered field. Soldiers take cover behind trees and fence posts. M4 Sherman tanks, a half track and jeeps support the soldiers, on a well paved road. A soldier fires a machine gun from a jeep. A tank fires its gun at hillside across the snow-covered field. The soldiers look through binoculars. Two surrendering German soldiers run by several American soldiers, one of whom swings a rifle at them and another who kicks at them as they run past. A U.S. tank enters a village, passing a sign that reads ' Scharnitz, Kreis Innsbruck '. U.S. infantrymen enter the village passing between buildings and log fences. The walk past several iron tank obstacles along paths in the village.
Scenes from the Battle of the Bulge, and siege of Bastogne during World War Two. Large numbers of United States Army Air Force C-47B Skytrain transport planes drop parachute supplies for troops at Bastogne, Belgium. Ruins of the town of Bastogne. A street littered with dead bodies and rubble. U.S. troops advancing into the town of Haguenau on the border with Germany, and further into Germany, itself. American MPs (Military Police) search civilians and check identity cards and check U.S. soldiers in military vehicles to guard against Germans in American uniforms. U.S. M4 Sherman tanks move ahead on the front. Artillery being fired. Troops engage in street fighting. Group of Alsatian women rejoice as they are being released from a prison, where they had been held by Germans. U.S. troops advance through a wooded area. U.S. Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes speaks about the sacrifices of U.S. troops who are fighting and dying for their country and appeals to Americans, safe at home, to work for the war effort.
U.S. 1st Marine division riflemen advance cautiously behind Sherman M4 tanks on a trail through heavy jungle in Talasea, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, during World War 2. Tank crews fire their guns point blank at Japanese positions. Marine in tank turret fires machine gun. Tanks rake side of trail with gunfire as they lead riflemen along the trail. They pass a metal building in Japanese installation.
1st Tank Battalion of the United States Marine Corps arrives at Peleliu Island, Palau during World War 2. Opening scene shows USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5) with her docking well open, as viewed from stern of a landing craft, moving away from her. A landing craft infantry gunboat, LCI(G) is also seen. Scene shifts to U.S. Marines on deck of a ship, relaxing and tossing an object amongst themselves,. View from beach, where Marines are hunkered down next to a landing vehicle tracked (LVT) as an M4 Sherman tank approaches with fording stacks installed. The tank turns around and heads away from the beach. View, again from the beach as several more Shermans, also equipped for deep wading (Stack Fording Kit MT-S, installed) approach the beach. One tank, onshore, starts backing towards the water as a DUKW amphibious vehicle, hit by Japanese gun fire, is seen burning in the water, just short of the beach.
1st. Platoon, A Company, 710th Tank Battalion of the United States Army supporting U.S. Marines of 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, First Marine Division, during a sortie at Horseshoe Valley, Peleliu Island, Palau, in World War II. M4 Sherman tanks are seen moving with Marine infantrymen along a path in the area. Three tanks cluster together and fire at Japanese positions in ridges and cliffs. Smoke rises from striking shells. One Sherman tank is seen backing up past an incinerated tank in the foreground. It turns around and proceeds back up the hill.
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