German soldiers on the move near Caen after the Normandy invasion, France. They guard and march a group of U.S. Prisoners of War captured during and after Normandy invasion operations. German soldiers walk beside the U.S. forces. Prisoners of war sit. Trees in the background. Close views of some of the prisoner soldiers resting and marching. Some prisoners are held up by fellow soldiers helping them to walk.
Bombing the Leyte Island, Manila. Carrier based planes bomb the island. Officer gives final orders of attack to the pilots. Pilots board their aircraft. Aircraft takes off from the carrier deck. Planes in formation. High altitude view of the sea. Planes drop bombs. Admiral Radford watches through binoculars for the return of the fliers. Smoke arises due to bombarding. Soldiers fire from battleship. Smoke arises from fliers hit by the enemy bombs. Aircraft on carrier. Wounded pilot on board. Soldiers stand in line on the battleship. Officer decorates them. (World War II period).
French and American soldiers liberate Strasbourg, France in World War II. Map points target areas in Metz and Strasbourg along the German border. Soldiers move forward on the muddy battlefield. A road sign showing the distance to Strasbourg (Straßburg), Saarburg, Metz and Nancy. Soldiers fire from French Army tanks. A soldier tosses an empty shell into a pile. Deserted German tanks and guns on the road. Strasbourg sign in German reads “Straßburg Schiltigheim”. A tank drives past heavy smoke in Strasbourg. French civilians watch Allied tanks enter Strasbourg. Wrecked American Jeeps on fire. Medics carry away the dead U.S. Army soldiers on stretchers. U.S. Army soldiers fire with M1919 Browning machine guns. Ammunition belt on machine gun. Soldier shooting with rifle with armored vehicle offering partial cover. Street littered with pile of small, handheld Nazi swastika flags. Closeup view of pile of small Nazi flags. Captured German soldiers form a long line. German General Franz Vaterrodt and other military officials surrender to the Allied forces. Bell tower of the heavily damaged Cathedral of Notre Dame in Strasbourg, France. Damaged buildings near the Cathedral.
P-47 aircraft of the U.S. Army Air Forces 365th and 368th Fighter Groups operating at the Chievres Airfield (A-84) in Chièvres Belgium, during World War 2. P-47 aircraft take off and land on muddy airfield. P-47s take off. Military vehicles drive through mud. Mobile control tower on airfield. Soldiers walk out of a tent looking at planes overhead. P-47s land. Trees in the background. 'Merry Xmas Hitler' written on a bomb. Pilot in the cockpit of P-47. Planes prepare to take off. P-47 of the 388th Squadron with nose art "Mike's Kite" seen as it starts to taxi and prepares for takeoff.
Smoke billowing from U.S. warships bombed by Japanese warplanes in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. Japanese planes attack Pearl Harbor during World War II. Scenes at other U.S. military installations with aircraft burning in hangars and injured being carried on stretchers. Voice of President Franklin D. Roosevelt declaring war against Empire of Japan.
U.S. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Charles Evans Hughes, receives an award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews. He addresses people. He terms intolerance as the deadly enemy of true democracy. (World War II period).
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