Twenty four students of United States 11th Airborne Division jump school, jump from a C-46 aircraft and open their parachutes. They land in fields in Lipa, Philippines.
United States 511th Parachute Infantry attacks hill 2380 in Philippines during World War 2. Soldiers ascend the hill. Narrator describes scenes shown. Camera pans to show a wounded Japanese soldier far in the distance. Camera holds on that position for some minutes. U.S. machine guns and mortar shells strike at the Japanese position on which the camera is trained.
Barrage balloons fly as anti air craft guns are fired from a destroyer in the Battle of Midway in Pacific Theater during World War II. Tracers fired as antiaircraft guns burst barrage balloons. Japanese plane comes in for attack. 5"guns aboard a destroyer fired. Japanese plane crashes. United States Navy SBD dauntless makes a landing on the flight deck of Yorktown, an aircraft carrier. F4F coming in for landing.
An aircraft flies over Okinawa, Japan as fire and smoke rises upwards. A hill on the island. Explosion occurs and smoke rises. United States sailors look at it through binoculars. (World War II period).
Clinging to pieces of wreckage, exhausted sailors from a destroyed allied vessel are helped aboard an United States Navy submarine by fellow sailors. Some of the rescued sailors are covered in oil. Sailors from the submarine help the victims aboard while others post lookout with binoculars. Some victims are wearing flotation bladders and float on wooden planks. (World War II period).
United States B-17 and B-24 bombers loaded with bombs to be dropped over Japanese position in Aleutian Island during World War II. Planes take off and drop bombs over Japanese position and return after the air strike.
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