A training of U.S. OSS ( Office of the Strategic Services) personnel for underwater demolition at Salt Key in Nassau, Bahama Island during World War II. OSS personnel of the Lamberston Underwater Diving Unit as they are being briefed about night problems. Men row a boat to point A and attach swim fins and bay units. They get underwater and swim. They keep a check on a compass to ensure the correctness of the course. The personnel get onto the boat and head for the beach.
Towing of Royal Navy Phoenix units across English Channel for D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. Phoenix unit (Mulberry Harbor) on water. Transport planes tow gliders. British officers aboard a tugboat as they watch planes in sky. British Corvette underway.
Korea, fighting increases as truce deadlocks. The communists threaten to break off the truce parleys with trumped up charges of United Nations truce violations. Explosions seen as fighting continues. Mountain ranges in background. Soldiers of Veteran Combat Units fire. The standstill resulting from the opposition adds to the fear of general war in the Orient. (Korean War)
World War 1 victory parade in Paris, France after signing of Armistice and end of World War I. Allied cavalry units, infantry units and band march down the Champ Elysees with Arc de Triomphe in the background. French soldiers carry American flags at the victory celebration and parade.
The German viewpoint of events during the Polish Campaign in Poland. A map shows German troops establishing contacts with the Russians in the inter Polish territory. Negotiations between the German and the Russian units. After brief negotiations the German and the Russian units meet. A map shows Warsaw, the capital city of Poland, and Modlin.
Contingent of French infantry, as seen through a corn field, marching with shouldered rifles and fixed bayonets. Scene shifts to a huge French military parade across an open field. Closeup of one cadre of soldiers pushing bicycles. Units of French cavalry, on horseback, canter in formation, raising dust as they pass. French artillery units pass with their field pieces and caissons pulled by teams of horses. (WWI. WW1)
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