November 25, 1943 in the South Pacific during World War 2. Two P-38s of the 13th Army Air Force photographed in formation from a third airplane. Cumulus clouds in the background.The two P-38s peel off and dive. In another sequence, the P-38s join in close formation, peel off and maneuver at high speed in the distance, over water. Includes closeup views of individual P-38 aircraft and of multiple P-38 aircraft in formation.
November 25, 1943 13th Air Force, South Pacific,during World War 2. A flight of three P-38s in formation with cumulus clouds behind them. Two are being photographed from the third airplane. The lead P-38 demonstrates ability to improve performance for aerial combat, by jettisoning its long range 250 gallon drop tanks and accelerating ahead of the other aircraft.
Korean War in South Korea. 24th infantry division soldiers move equipment through water on a wooden raft. Soldiers push loaded rafts across the water. Soldiers build a bridge over a stream by hand laying large rocks on top of one another. Jeep crossing rock bridge in stream. Army vehicles moving on muddy, rutted roads. Army jeeps and trucks parked on road sides. An army truck passes along a road while soldiers carrying guns on shoulders walk by the sides of the road.
8th Cavalry Regiment in Chilgok, South Korea. Soldiers from the 8th Cavalry regiment sit and hide on the stream side. A M4 Sherman tank moves on the road and firing from one of its mounted machine guns. Soldiers move cautiously off the road as the tank moves on the road. A soldier without helmet walks over the rocks.
Opening scene shows American soldiers gathered around a C-47 transport plane on a desert field in Oran, Algeria during World War 2. They walk away en masse from the plane. Another C-47 is seen with tail number tail number 42-23507 (Records show this aircraft was delivered to Oran on May 20, 1943 and supported Operation Torch- The Italian Campaign of World War 2.) Scene shifts to interior of a C-47 rigged as an air evacuation aircraft, with wounded American soldiers in stacked bunks on both sides of the aircraft. A nurse and corpsmen are attending to the wounded. Two soldiers carry one of the wounded soldiers on a litter to the aircraft door. View from the outside of the soldier being carried by others to a waiting field ambulance. More views of the wounded being transferred from the plane to waiting ambulances. Scene shifts to ambulances parked on the desert field with a large Red Cross flag above them. A Curtiss P-40 fighter plane taxis past the camera. A large open field tent with a large Red Cross flag flying above it. Nurses and medical corpsmen tend to wounded soldiers lying in ambulances. A nurse serves water to some wounded.
General Mark W Clark and General Mathew B Ridgway in army jeep move through the Pompeii city streets. General Clark and General Ridgway walk through the public square. Generals in the army jeep move through the streets and people cheer the Army Officers. The convoy of army vehicles moves through the cheering crowd.
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