U.S. 3rd Army under Lieutenant General Patton in World War 2. Tanks roll down. U.S. Army soldiers and tanks of the 3rd Army move forward. General Patton looks through binoculars. Patton with other officers. Soldiers fire artillery. A soldier talks into a radio. Patton's troops move forward. Enemy soldiers surrender. Tanks and troops move forward. Soldiers aim and fire. Soldiers in the streets of Saint Malo. German soldiers taken as prisoners of war (POW). Civilians cheer and welcome the American troops. Soldier drinks from cups. A sign reads 'Mayenne'. Troops move towards Germany fighting on their way. Soldiers move through the forest terrain. Patton with his officers. The 3rd Army crosses river Siene. Patton in an aircraft. The planes of the 8th Army Air Force drop bombs on the enemy positions. Tanks fire artillery. Patton with soldiers. Trucks move forward. Headlights of trucks moving forward at the night. Patton comes out of a building and sits in a jeep. Army officers including General Eisenhower and Patton have dinner. Patton with soldiers. Soldiers of the 3rd Army load and fire artillery and capture Metz. Fighting house to house and in the streets of Metz. Dead soldiers lay on the ground. German soldiers taken as prisoners of war. American flag is raised. The battle of Bulge- Soldiers on the snow covered terrain of Ardennes. Patton's 3rd Army moves toward Bastogne. U.S. Army soldiers remove snow from ground in the icy winds. A soldier looks up into the clear sky after snow storms have passed. Aerial view of U.S. Army Air Force Mitchell B-25 bomber aircraft in formation and bombs away views as they drop bombs on snow covered German held positions below. U.S. Army tanks firing at German enemy positions. close up views and point of view shots of American soldiers firing rifles and machine guns. German prisoners are rounded up by U.S. Army, including some German soldiers wounded and bandaged. Patton decorates soldiers at a bridge over the Sauer River. in Germany, where a sign says "General Patton Bridge - built by the Mighty Midgets. Company F, 1303 Engineers" (Narrator in clip is Ronald Reagan).
Americans win new air bases from Japan in South Pacific during World War II. Americans bombers fly towards Japanese targets in the South Pacific. Planes drop bombs on enemy positions. Explosion along the coast. Smoke rises up. Animated picture show Manus in the Admiralty Islands. American troops shell the island. U.S. cavalrymen land on the Los Negros Island and march forward. Soldiers load and fire artillery. Soldiers carry the wounded on stretcher. Dead Japanese soldiers. Soldiers move towards the airstrip on the island. Wrecked Japanese planes. Heavy equipment on the airstrip. American planes at the airstrip.
Princess Juliana of the Netherlands visits Curacao Island, a Dutch colony in South America. Princess Juliana on a motorcade in Willemstad. Curacaoans cheer and welcome the Princess. Princess Juliana receives a bouquet of flowers from an open car. People cheering from colonial Dutch-style houses. Dutch Marines in white uniform forming an honor guard during a parade. United Nation countries (United States, Republic of China, Netherlands, etc) flags pass in review. Princess Juliana watches the parade with Dutch colonial officials.
Royal Air Force (R.A.F) Boston bombers over occupied Europe during World War II. The bombers strike Nazi German war plants in occupied Europe during low level attacks. Aerial view of explosions on the ground.
Airplane propellers are tested in a wind tunnel in U.S. In a wind tunnel men work at the propellers of a plane. The propeller rotates. Operators look from the windows in the tunnel. A man walks into the wind tunnel and looks at the controls. Operators and engineers watch and operate controls. Operators study the motion of the propeller in the dark. A lady walks in the front of the tunnel. Her hair blows towards the tunnel.
U.S. Navy launches a new aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard at an Atlantic coast shipyard. The air craft carrier at the shipyard. People at the shipyard to see the launching ceremony. People cheer as the aircraft carrier sails out into the sea.
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