A film depicts the operations of the United States Engineers in the European Theater during World War II. Ships underway at sea. Airplanes in flight overhead. Airplanes drop bombs over the ships. The ships explode. The engineers advance on the war front. Tank advancing in the area. Engineers aboard assault boats beaching. They detect land mines on the field and lay steel mats.
The Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. A sign reads: 'US Coast Guard Ruley C.Pho.M.'. Coast Guard Cutter, Task Force and barrage balloons in the background. Men working on a ship. They hold up canned Vienna sausages on the main deck of the ship. Vienna sausages are taken out of can and put onto tray. Deep cliff that drops down to the sea. Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) underway in the background. Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) loaded with troops. Sunken ships in the background. Sunken boat with Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) alongside. British trawler with two barges behind it. Patrol boat, sunken ships and another patrol boat in the background. LCI washed upon the beach at Normandy.
Shelling of the enemy coastline of Bali Island, Indonesia during World War II. Smoke rising in the extreme foreground. Gun crew firing guns in beach shelling operations. Mountains and clouds in the foreground. Black smoke rises up from the explosions. Gun crew stand around a gun aboard a submarine. Conning tower in the background. Men measure the gun. Coastline of Bali island.
A U.S. submarine submerged off an island in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2. Periscope view of the waters around an island. A beached ship, half sunken.
U.S. Army troops from elements of the 27th Infantry Division, clamber down a rope net over the side of the Attack Cargo Ship, USS Alcyone (AKA-7) and board her landing craft for an amphibious assault on Makin Island, during World War 2 in the Pacific. Views of Higgins Boats (landing craft) underway, some from the USS Leonard Wood (APA-12). Explosions on the shore from Naval bombardment. View from inside a packed landing craft approaching the shore. Gunfire from U.S. Naval warships offshore. Various views of the landing craft underway. An aircraft flying close over the water in the background. A wounded person being hoisted aboard one of the transport ships. Heavy black smoke rising from Naval gunfire striking the shore. A line of landing craft. View from front of a landing craft about to hit the beach. U.S. troops wading ashore.
The U.S. soldiers in Italy during World War II. Soldiers board DUKW amphibious trucks and leave the beach. The trucks enter the river. A jeep is lifted by a crane and lowered into the DUKW. The DUKW with soldiers and jeep en route to the north side of the Po River. The truck underway in the river.
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