Allied military officers gather Italian partisans in Italy during World War II. Military officers inspect partisans standing at attention. Members of the Italian resistance movement wearing neckerchiefs, one of them is wearing a banner with writings. Italian partisans and United States soldiers stand at attention. An officer addresses the Italian resistance movement before turning around to salute. Young Italian resistance fighters with machine gun and rifles jolting together. A large crowd gather during an Italian town’s liberation by American forces. The United States and Italian flags hang on both sides of a makeshift stage.
United States troops fight the Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II. Filipino civilians and American troops convene outside Palo Cathedral (Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lord's Transfiguration in Leyte. Palo Cathedral is converted into a makeshift hospital. Rows of dozens of wounded soldiers on beds inside the church. Faces of Filipino men and women...tired faces due to living under the tyranny of Japanese occupation. Radiomen with headphones typing. Typewriter writes important information from Filipino guerrilla fighters about the conditions of Japanese occupation. Paper in typewriter reads “Guerillas dispatching authentic photos Jap atrocities”. A man shows photos of badly injured Filipino civilians under the harsh treatment of the Japanese. Destroyed church in the Philippines. A wooden crucifix of Jesus Christ on the floor surrounded by debris. Japanese occupation sign reads “1. Salute to the Japanese Army Sentries. 2. Show your residence certificate and pass. 3. Don’t miss your way.”. Shadow of a Japanese soldier holding a bayonet pass by the sign. A truck passes by a walking Japanese sentry. A Filipino man sits on top of the rice sacks. Starving Filipino farmers sweep the floor for grains of rice. “Death rate American prisoners Bilibid increasing” reads the narrator. Graves of deceased American prisoners outside the walls of Bilibid Prison, a prisoner of war and civilian internee camp in Manila. Incarcerated United States soldiers stand behind prison bars inside Bilibid Prison. Face of an American man looking up, partially obscured by shadow. Far East Air Forces General George Kenney speaking to soldiers in the airfield. A Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber takes off from an airfield. Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers in flight. Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers of the Far East Air Forces bomb targets in Luzon. Bombers strafing Japanese aircraft in airfield near Manila. Aerial view of Manila Bay.
World War II (WW2) Chemical Warfare Service logo and words, "Incendiaries over the Axis." An M76 incendiary bomb explosion. The United States officers in meeting room in front of wall map of Europe. A man puts a pin into “Berlin” on the map. A pillar of smoke rises from a bombed Nazi German war plant. Allied trucks carry chemical bombs on the road to a chemical park. A man carries a bomb, stacking it on a neat pile of incendiary bombs. Men unload wooden crates with incendiary bombs. Bomb warning reads “Do not assemble fuze to cluster until loaded into airplane”. The chemical officer at the headquarters of the United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe signs a document from his desk before handing it over. The chemical officer reads a chart showing the increased use of incendiary bombs by Allied forces from January to March 1944.
United States 30th Infantry Division troops marching on both sides of a snowy road during World War II. A soldier walks in deep snow outside Malmedy, Belgium. United States troops dig up bodies of Malmedy Massacre victims (also known as Baugnez Massacre) at the crossroads of Baugnez. Bodies of the 84 American prisoners of war (POWs) killed by Kampfgruppe Peiper soldiers are lying in the snow after being dug up. Captured German prisoners of war raise their hands. The prisoners of war are led away from the gravesite. German prisoners watch as bodies of Americans are dug up from frozen grave. A dead body of a Malmedy massacre victim. A soldier uses a camera to record the exhumation. Faces of captured German troops as they raise their hands. Contrails of a bomber squadron in sky.
United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Maxwell D. Taylor inspect the 101st Airborne troops in Mourmelon-le-Grand, France during World War II. Generals Eisenhower and Taylor ride a Jeep while inspecting the troops. The troops stand at attention, some are holding United States flags. Officers stand on review stand. Actress Marlene Dietrich attends the event. Marlene Dietrich is wearing a helmet and a military-style uniform. She watches General Eisenhower make a speech. Eisenhower speaks to the troops from the review stand. The insignia of the 101st Airborne on display in the review stand.
Houses burning after Wingene, Belgium is retaken by Allied forces during World War II. A house with its roof covered in flames. Soldiers driving on a Jeep pass by burning house. A United States helmet and helmet liner with shell hole. Wrecked and burning United States vehicles such as Jeeps, trucks in deserted streets. A doorway blocked by burning debris. Thick smoke covers the streets as houses burn. Remains of a bombed house with only its façade left. More burning homes in Wingene, on the Belgian province of West Flanders. Pillars of smoke rises in a battlefield outside Wingene.
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