Farmers in the cornfields of a small Ukrainian town. A pit of the 1940 Katyn massacre mass grave found in World War II. Katyn Commission officials arrive to investigate the Katyn massacre. The Greek Orthodox Bishop of Kos inspects the remains of Katyn massacre victims. Exhumed Katyn massacre victims on the ground. Family members of Katyn massacre victims arrive to identify victims onsite. A body is pulled out from the pit. Women searching for the remains of their loved ones. Religious Christian artifacts and personal effects belonging to Katyn massacre victims found on the mass grave.
American Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. speaks to other generals while Canadian troops in the background board a transport ship sailing from Adak island to Kiska island during World War 2. Canadian Major General George Pearkes greets Canadian troops with a big smile while they board the ships. More generals gather around a Canadian soldier while he demonstrates how to use a mine detector. Among these generals are once again Lieutenant General SB Buckner and Major General George Pearkes, as well as American Lieutenant General John Lesesne DeWitt and Canadian Brigadier General Sherwood Lett.
Aerial footage of 8 planes off in the distance. Closeup shot of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft, with WW2 Lockheed P-38 Lightning airplanes flying far in the background. Closeup aerial shots of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft with the pilot visible in front of a thunderhead cloud. Various shots of Balalae Island, in the Solomon Islands. Bombs falling towards the island before explosions are seen along the airfield. Smoke rising from the impacts.
Canadian soldiers with full packs and equipment board a transport ship that is set to sail from Adak island to Kiska island in the Aleutian islands during World War 2. An officer checks each soldier as they pass across the gangway. Closeup of two patches on the officer's shoulder, one with a knife on it and the other with the word "Canada." Excellent closeup shots of faces of Canadian soldiers on the transport ship. Emblem "RCASC" (Royal Canadian Army Service Corps) seen clearly on the shoulder of multiple soldiers. Camera pans across the troops and sometimes shows closer shots of just one soldiers face. Most soldiers are smiling, all seem to be in good spirits. Soldier smoking in foreground, while an M29 Weasel (a treaded transport vehicle) is loaded onto the ship behind him. The M29 Weasel is being carried by a crane, and there are many soldiers around it guiding it into place.
Canadian troops preparing for transport in WWII. In the background there is a body of water with a pier and ships off in the distance, and even further behind that some mountains. More Canadian soldiers marching. Closeups of a few soldiers sitting on a dirt embankment, mostly seeming to be in good spirits. Troops walking across a pier with transport ships in the distance. Most soldiers have full packs, equipment, and rifles. Soldiers boarding transport ship, each handing his identification slip to an officer before boarding. Closeup of identification slips carefully handled by the officer. Closeup of officer's face. Troops with full packs and equipment cross gangway onto transport ship.
World War 2 aerial footage of multiple U.S. Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft flying with another squadron of unidentified aircraft in the distance. Closeup Aerial shot of another American Consolidated B-24 Liberator. A short clip of a coastline off in the distance with a single airstrip visible perpendicular to the coast line. Distant but clear footage of a single Lockheed P-38 Lightning airplane. Footage of the airstrip with smoke from numerous bomb impacts. Distant footage of two Lockheed P-38 Lightning airplanes. Excellent closeup footage of an American Lockheed P-38 Lightning with the pilot visible in flight. The numbers 370 can be seen on its nose. Two P-38s flying close to one another. Distant shots of the smoking airstrip. View of multiple bombs being dropped, possibly on the airstrip. Airstrip littered with craters from it's many bombings. Bomb impacts are seen in the ocean beyond the airsrip. Smoke rising from the runway and an additional shot of the two P-38s. Shaky shots of an aircraft smoking from it's engine (most likely a B-24 Liberator). It is seen in a nose dive before crashing into the water below.
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