Manufacturing of rubber heels for the soles of U.S. soldiers' boots at a Goodyear plant in Windsor, Vermont. Men and women emerge from rubber heel manufacturing facility in Windsor Vermont. Workers wash uncured rubber heels and keep them to dry so as to prevent them from sticking. Man puts rubber heels in molds for nailing. Each nailed heel passes through vulcanization machines. Woman checks the vulcanized rubber heels and puts them together. Women pass completed heels through an X-ray machine and check for defects. In Akron, Ohio, a U.S. Army soldier stands in front of the statue of Charles Goodyear, the founder of Goodyear rubber company, and the discoverer of vulcanization. (World War II period).
American troops in their drive toward Manila, in 1945, during World War 2, pass several knocked out and burning Japanese Type 89 Chi-Ro tanks. A dead Japanese soldier, shot dead while trying to commit suicide, lies on the ground with an undetonated hand grenade in his mouth. U.S. M4A2 sherman III tanks and infantry of the XIV Corps moving on the Lingayen Plains Philippines, leading to the capital, Manila. U.S. armor towing artillery ford a stream, as they pass beneath framework of an apparently unusable bridge. A battery of U.S. M101 105mm Howitzer artillery pieces is set up and bombards the Clark Field area. One striking shell produces an explosion, fire and column of black smoke. U.S. troops ride forward atop tanks. Glimpse of one soldier with flamethrower tanks on his back. American tanks firing their guns. Destroyed Japanese aircraft on the ground. A soldier using a mine detector to sweep the area. He signals to another soldier who comes to probe the area with a long knife. Next a soldier is seen standing in a hole dug around a bomb Placed nose up under the ground by the Japanese. Soldiers pull it from the hole, using a rope. U.S. soldiers walk in area full of similar holes and bombs pulled from them. General Douglas MacArthur is seen, on January 26, 1945, walking among remains of Japanese aircraft at Clark Field. He visits the Filipino cemetery at Camp O'Donnell, which was a prisoner of war camp, considered the terminating point of the Bataan Death March, where some 20 thousand Filipinos and almost 2 thousand Americans died during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. MacArthur is seen standing by a large Christian Cross monument, and walks among untended graves marked with small wooden crosses. The Mount Pinatubo volcano is seen on the horizon in the background. MacArthur and those accompanying him walk around a large monument containing a placard written in tagolog. U.S. soldiers start a mortar barrage against Japanese forces dug in on "Hill 70." Infantrymen move through trees and brush to flush out the entrenched enemy. Glimpse of type of improvised device made of explosives and gasoline, that U.S. soldiers are using to drive Japanese troops out of their fortifications. As a soldier watches with binoculars, the camera records several of these devices exploding with great force. Glimpse of a dead Japanese soldier on the ground. U.S. troops ride atop an M18 Gun motor carriage of the 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion, as it crosses a river. American tanks and infantry moving cautiously across a bridge as shells explode ahead of them. Tanks firing at Japanese troops entrenched in hillside above a road. Large numbers of American infantry marching along a road accompanied by tanks. Areas around them burning from fires set by retreating Japanese forces.
U.S. Marine Corps honor guard at UN Security Council at Hunter College, New York City. Honor Guard parade at Bronx Campus of Hunter College. Exteriors of Hunter College. A man talks with honor guard on steps of building. International delegates arrive in car to attend UN Security Council sessions held at Bronx Campus, Hunter College. Honor guard salutes delegates. Delegates walk through the campus towards a building. Honor guard checks identity cards of delegates arriving. Honor guard directs a foreign delegate. Overhead sign reads 'Council Chamber C Salle Du Conseil'. Delegates seated in the chamber. Honor guard parade in review. Honor guard lined up.
The 1st Cavalry Division moving across a field in Salem, Oregon. A smoke screen laid in the field. Soldiers riding horses under the smoke screen. The horsemen cross a waterway. (World War II period).
Film opens showing a damaged U.S. M48 tank stranded in a ditch at side of road near buildings in Hue, Vietnam. Closeup of the front and tread of the damaged tank. M-48 tanks parked under trees near sandbagged garden fence. U.S. Marine in combat gear silhouetted against window as he fires rifle from inside a building. Several U.S. Army soldiers, of the 1st battalion 44th artillery, load shells into an M42A1 twin 40mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun ("Duster"). Marines on the roof of a building. They prepare to fire a 3.5inch rocket launcher. A rocket is loaded into a tube and the 3.5inch rocket launcher is fired. A marine ties the 3.5inch rocket launcher onto a rope and stands holding it.
Crew is assembled in formation on deck of a U.S. Nevada Class battleship as the Captain reads his orders. Triple guns in turret are visible in foreground. In unrelated scene, likely viewed from the Brooklyn Bridge, in New York City, the USS Arkansas (BB-33) is being assisted by numerous tug boats as it makes its way out to sea. Final scene shows sailors feeding their pet goat (mascot) aboard a U.S. Naval vessel. (Ford Motor Company, 1923)
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