Japanese pilots run to their aircraft before a mission to Hong Kong, a British Crown Colony, during the Battle of Hong Kong in World War II. Aerial view of Hong Kong. Smoke rises from bombing. Japanese crew loads and fires old type artillery piece. Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) troops marches into the New Territories and Kowloon peninsula. Captured British soldiers, including Sikh Indian troops, are marched to the compound by Japanese soldiers. Japanese soldiers drive a tracked truck along Tai Po Road. Crowds on the streets of Kowloon after Japanese occupation. Japanese soldiers carry huge banner that reads 'Peace Mission'. Japanese troops in Japanese Navy ships sailing to Hong Kong. Naval artillery and bombers bombards Hong Kong Island. British prisoners of war in Hong Kong Island after Japanese capture. A British prisoner of war drinks from a can. Japanese military officials in Hong Kong. Japanese troops march into Victoria and streets of Hong Kong Island.
Ford Motor Company workers swarm around the the final assembly line for the new Model A Ford car. Overhead moving parts line carries variety of parts, such as exhaust pipes, needed by the workers, who select them as needed.
Map Shows location of Port Darwin in Australia. A Japanese naval convoy is under attack by U.S. Planes. Heavy splashes and explosions in water. A Japanese sailor aboard a ship looks through his binoculars. Japanese infantry advances through the New Guinea jungle. A bombed hangar. Wrecked planes inside the hangar. Japanese plane takes off from an airport recently captured from the Americans. Japanese troops inside bombers flying at a high altitude above Darwin. Japanese bombers drop bombs on Darwin. Heavy smoke rises from the explosions. (World War II period).
Troops of the First Division, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) move down a hill with a horse-drawn caisson and small artillery piece, at their training grounds in Gondrecourt, France, during World War 1. In the next scene two gunners crouch behind the shield of a Vickers Q.F. Mark II 40mm Gun. An instructor stands over them and they fire the gun at his command, several times. The hot expended shells drop between the gunners. The assistant gunner loads a new round through the gun breech, for the next firing. Several other soldiers sit in the background observing and presumably awaiting their turn to practice firing the Vickers gun.
The SNCASE S.E.5000 Baroudeur, a new French jet aircraft, lacking conventional landing gear, is launched from a special mobile platform, at an airfield in France. The jet takes off, leaving the mobile launch platform rolling along the runway. A drag chute deploys to brake the launch platform. Aerial views of the jet in flight.
Scenes aboard U.S. Navy Destroyer Escort USS Frament (DE-677) during shakedown cruise, with other new Destroyer Escorts, in World War 2. Sailors occupy off-duty time reading and writing letters. Captain looks through binoculars. Sailors stand beside him. Another Destroyer Escort comes abeam the Frament. View of radar antenna of the ship. Radar operator operates radar instrument. Operation of sonar device aboard the ship. Radio Shack device to maintain contact with other ships. Aerial views of several destroyer escorts underway. Crewmen signal through signal lamp. The Frament practices zigzaging through the water. Destroyer escorts practice coordinated actions, one pursuing would-be subs while the other lays a smoke screen.
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