Two escaped U.S. Army Air Force aircraft pilots, shot down in enemy territory in December 1943 during World War II, speak with U.S. officers after their rescue in 1944. Both pilots are dressed in civilian clothing, and one wears improvised shoes. (Footage shot around the time of the Battle of Cisterna).
A camp set up in a Burmese jungle by Allied soldiers during World War II. A sign reads 'Fort Stinker Main Gate'. A soldier drinks coffee. Mortar crew cleans its weapon. Various Allied soldiers and native men on a field.
Evacuation of U.S. Army Air Force crew members at a camp site in a Burmese jungle during World War II. Soldiers run towards a wrecked U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain airplane on a field. An injured crewman lies on a stretcher beside the wrecked C-47. The injured is loaded aboard a light airplane and is evacuated. The airplane takes off. A soldier makes out a tag for another wounded crewman who is loaded aboard a light airplane. The light airplane taxis and takes off from a jungle airstrip.
A military cemetery in a Burmese jungle during World War II. Bamboo crosses in the military cemetery in which members of U.S. Army Rangers 'Merrill's Marauders' 5307th Composite Unit are buried. Allied soldiers set up bamboo crosses in the cemetery.
August 1944: U.S. soldiers get off a Landing Craft on the French coast. Soldiers on U.S. battleships. U.S. officers discuss among themselves. Soldiers move across the beach. Soldiers sit outside an abandoned unfinished German pillbox. They examine German artillery. A camouflaged German gun IMPLACEMENT. A U.S. Landing Craft hit by a German radio controlled flying bomb. The charred and destroyed craft on the beach. Soldiers unload heavy equipment and vehicles including jeeps and tanks from Landing Crafts. U.S. battleships in the background. Blimps in the sky. Soldiers move across a street. Soldiers in trucks. Engineers construct an airstrip through a vineyard. Heavy machinery and equipment used to remove the rubble and bushes, as well as to level the ground. Military trucks and vehicles on the road. (World War II period).
August 1944: Civilians outside the Civil Affairs Committee building in Bayeux, Normandy. A large crowd waits outside the building. Men and women lined up. Radios confiscated by the Nazi German forces are returned to the civilians. Men and women walk out the building with their radio sets in boxes. Men and children on the street as military vehicles pass by.
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