Allied invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. A Japanese cave emplacement. A Marine flame throwing team in action on the island. Flames are thrown resulting in rising of smoke.
A film about Allied invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan (Operation Detachment) during World War II. Clip opens with view of simple model of the island. This is followed by battle scenes on Iwo Jima. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Intense battle scenes during Battle of Iwo Jima. A walking wounded Marine with his arm over another Marine is assisted to safety during fire fight. Wounded Japanese prisoner is carried to safety. Scenes of rocket launchers firing rockets at Japanese enemy positions. View behind a Marine as he fires a machine gun. A Marine fires a rifle at a Japanese soldier lying in a ditch. Fire and smoke rises as explosions occur. Another wounded marine in great pain is carried by two fellow Marines for medical care by Corpsman. Blood plasma being administered to a wounded Marine. Flame throwers direct fire on Japanese positions. Artillery fired at Mount Suribachi. United States Marines soldiers through cratered landscape.
Nazi German spies attempting sabotage are caught in the United States during World War II. A sign on a building reads 'Federal Bureau of Investigation'. An official at a desk inside an office. A submarine underway at sea as a crew member looks through a periscope. Pictures of Nazi German would-be saboteurs caught by Coast Guard personnel and apprehended by the FBI after they landed near the coasts of Amagansett, Long Island and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. (This was Operation Pastorius which disrupted a Nazi German sabotage plot on U.S. soil in 1942.)
The history of the United States. A pictorial map shows the path followed by Christopher Columbus in 1492 across the Atlantic Ocean. He found a group of islands where other explorers from Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, England, Italy and France found two continents. The representation of the area in the northern continent over which the English and the French fought and the French were defeated. The French gave up their colonies and in 1763 they belonged to England. People in the English colonies at work. English officials during a meet. The workers rebelling against English troops. Farmers, who became soldiers, moving with guns. The army led by George Washington moving against the English Army. The thirteen colonies of the English became independent, during the American Revolution, leading to the birth of American nation.
The Japanese being taken as prisoners in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Allied soldiers cross a water channel and advance in Luzon, Philippines. Soldiers fire and advance. Explosions occur on the island. The soldiers fire rifles and guns. A soldier loads shells into a mortar and fires. A Japanese urges the natives over a loudspeaker to surrender. American soldiers aboard a ship as they look through binoculars to spot any Japanese soldier. Japanese soldiers swim towards the ship and come aboard as they surrender. Another local speaks into a loudspeaker as he urges the Japanese to surrender. A Japanese soldier waves a leaflet and surrenders to U.S. soldiers. A wounded Japanese soldier after surrendering to U.S. troops. Japanese prisoners at a prison camp. Prisoners eat and are lined up on the camp grounds.
German General (Generalleutnant) Kurt Dittmar surrenders in Magdeburg, Germany during World War 2. German military commander General Dittmar, who was also Official Military Commentator of the German Armed Forces, stands with his party, including his son, young German soldier Berend Dittmar, Major Pluskat, and Major Werner, as American soldiers escort them. General Dittmar carries on an extended conversation with a French war corresondent. View of destroyed bridge span over the Elbe River, Magdeburg, Germany. German General Dittmar and his son, the boy soldier carrying a white flag with Red Cross on it, walk along sandy shore. They are met by U.S. Army soldiers of the 117th Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, including Captain Henry Abbes of Glendale, Long Island, New York, Commander of 'K' Company, who escort them. German General Dittmar conversing with captors while smoking a pipe, and then walking with his son, accompanied by American officers, through rubble strewn street of Magdeburg. (Records indicate that General Dittmar had traveled across the Elbe to ask for assistance in evacuating injured German soldiers and civilians from the east bank of the Elbe. U.S. Major General Leland Hobbs refused, and rather than returning across the River Elbe, Dittmar surrendered.)
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