United States Marines in combat on Iwo Jima Island, in the Pacific, during World War II. A 5th Marine Division tank burns after being hit by Japanese artillery fire. Column of U.S. M4 Sherman tanks advances on battlefield. One of them is equipped with a bulldozer blade. Shells from Japanese 77mm field artillery explode around the tanks.
A film on May Day Parade in Moscow, Russia. The city of Moscow. Russian giant jet bombers and jet fighters fly over Red Square, including a Myasishchev M-4 / 3M (Bison) jet bomber with four engines, flanked by a formation of MiG-15 or MiG-17 fighter aircraft. People watch the airplanes flying in formation overhead. An Armored Guard Rifle Division passes in review. Soviet paratroopers aboard military vehicles pass along a street. Artillery being towed by vehicles on the parade ground. A Soviet Army band moves past the review stand. Officials and dignitaries salute.
U.S. Army troop reinforcements arriving at Omaha Beachhead and moving inland, during invasion of Normandy, France, in World War 2, in the days immediately following D-Day. (They are moving along a gradual rise overlooking the beach, that appears to be near Colleville Sur Mer, coordinates WN-62.) U.S. LST-281 discharging cargo of Army vehicles, including trucks and halftracks. A DUKW amphibious vehicle driving out of the surf. Sherman M4 tanks with deep wading kits; one named, "Goldie." Troops unload supplies from a beached Rhino Barge. More landing craft approaching the beach. Coast Guardsmen manning antiaircraft guns. Barrage balloons aloft. Antiaircraft guns firing, at night,from the beachhead, at German bombers, overhead.
Film starts showing two CH-46A helicopter in flight low over rice paddies during the Vietnam War. View is from another helicopter flying above. An M60 machine gun is seen sticking out of the overflying helicopter. White smoke is rising from some small fires on the ground. Several CH-46 choppers are seen on the ground with rotors turning. Glimpse of M60 machine gun protruding from the overflying camera helicopter. Small fire burning behind the parked choppers. Change of scene shows 4 U.S. jet aircraft in formation. One dives down and drops napalm on a target marked by white smoke. The bomb explodes in a fireball billowing dense smoke. Another jet drops a bomb in wooded area.
A daylight raid by Commandos of the US-Canadian First Special Service Forces on a German Outpost in Anzio, Italy during World War II. German prisoners of war march on a road. Allied troops around a disabled M4 Sherman tank in a water filled shell crater. The troops dig around the tank.
Infantrymen, of the U.S. 314th Regiment, 79th Division, move cautiously through woods in Haguenau, France, in World War 2. They are accompanied by two M4 Sherman tanks, moving slowly along a village street. One of the tanks fires its gun three times, as troops stay sheltered amongst the trees. Afterwards, the troops leave their cover and proceed to check houses for snipers.
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