During the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, a Japanese A6M5 Zero aircraft carries out one of the first kamikaze attacks of World War II, diving and attacking the U.S. Navy Escort Carrier USS Suwanee (CVE-27) in the Leyte Gulf of the Philippines. Clouds of black smoke billow from the hit carrier. Some Navy sailors from the hit USS Suwanee in the water, blown overboard by the explosion, approaching USS Sangamon (CVE-26), also in Task Unit 77.4.1 ("Taffy 1") for assistance. USS Sangamon underway.
Parade in Red Square. Russian troops marching. Troops with horse drawn carriages at speed. Civilians with banners and Cavalry units riding at speed. View of Joseph Stalin.
USN LSD (Dock landing ship) underway in the Mediterranean Sea, with other units of U.S. 6th fleet, during the 1958 Lebanon crisis. USS Muliphen (AKA-61) underway, LSD in far background. U.S. Navy captain speaks with someone aboard ship. USS Muliphen underway. U.S. Navy Commander leans over a desk, listening to someone. He nods his head.
A guard marches in the compound of a hotel. United Kingdom's Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated. French General Charles de Gaulle. General George Marshall with U.S. Air Force Chief, Lieutenant General Henry H. (Hap) Arnold. General Marshall with British General Brooke. Sir Dudley Pound, British Naval Chief, with American counterpart, Admiral William D. Leahy. Winston Churchill and President Franklin D Roosevelt seated and other British and American officials stand behind. American and British troops meet in Tunisia. Troops share cigarettes in the battlefield. General Eisenhower shakes hands with British General Montgomery. British troops advance in the battlefield. Aircraft of Allied Forces strafe German targets on the ground. American tanks advance. German prisoners marched off by French soldiers. German prisoners captured. Crowd cheers in a French city which was occupied by Germans earlier. French soldiers and crowd celebrate. (World War II period).
General Secretary of the Communist Party Joseph Stalin, President Franklin D Roosevelt of the U.S. and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the UK seated on porch of Soviet Embassy building in Tehran, Iran, 28 November 1943, during World War 2. Scene shifts to group of Yugoslav Partisans and closeup of their leader, Marshal Tito, at their mountain headquarters. Yugoslavian Marshal Tito smoking a pipe while standing on the porch of his headquarters with American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Officer, Army Major Linn M. Farish, U.S. Liaison to the Partisans, and British Brigadier General Fitzroy Maclean, Winston Churchill's special envoy to the Yugoslavia leader. Next scene shows French resistance fighters with their flag on a mountaineer's pick. It reads,""Vaincre ou Mourir"" and displays a cross of Lorraine. Closeups of French resistance fighters at attention and also relaxed, smiling, and singing. Scenes of various such groups joining in the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion at Normandy, France. Aerial glimpse of D-day task force crossing the English Channel. Animated map shows Germany being attacked by Russian forces from the East, by the other allies from Britain in the West and from Italy, in the South. Allied forces moving across a pontoon bridge and engaging German forces in France. A U.S. M3 Gun Motor Carriage firing its 75mm gun. American troops firing machine guns, carrying wounded on stretchers and using flame throwers. Troops, including ambulatory wounded moving under enemy fire. Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division in France. One carries a wounded buddy. American troops firing a variety of artillery from under camouflage netting. French underground forces engaged in Paris. Closeup of one wearing a French Adrian helmet firing a rifle. Another throws a grenade out an apartment window. An American tank moving under the base of the Eiffel Tower as French Resistance fighters run across the area. French citizens celebrating the liberation of Paris. View from an American jeep as French people cheer. Closeups of French people. A bombed out bridge. A battlefield cemetery. Destruction and death in the wake of combat. Fallen French civilians lying on pavement. A U.S. tank slowly driving through a masonry wall. Soviet forces advancing through destroyed buildings. Chinese troops marching along the Great Wall. British troops on parade in tropics. Asian ally troops marching. Huge formation of marching U.S. soldiers. United Nations flags in the breeze.
Austro-Hungarian troops march along a road during winter in World War 1. Snow covers the ground. Change of scene shows troops moving supplies (including a field kitchen) in horse-drawn wagons, along the crest of a hill. Next scene shows a mounted army bugler sounding a call in a snowy army camp field. Regimental lancers (Ulanen) ride into view leading a column of various kinds of troops. The lancers are seen galloping along a path, followed by troops and supplies in wagons pulled by teams of horses. A group of senior officers is gathered near one looking through tripod mounted periscopic binoculars. They see French columns on a hill held by German troops. Austro-Hungarian infantry move down a snowy hillside. In the distance, French troops are assembled and march in small unit formations across a flat snow-covered field to engage the German soldiers in trenches. The French infantry begin to run on their attack. Several are seen falling to German gunfire during the battle. Then they are seen retreating in formation. Fallen French soldiers lie in the snow. The French infantry reform and launch another attack, making a right flanking movement before moving forward, this time. In their final assault, they swarm uphill, leaving many dead and injured lying in the snow behind them. Later they are seen carrying the bodies of the fallen from the field. Austrian medics on skis come the the aid of a wounded comrade. They improvise a sled from skis and pull the wounded soldier on it.
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