U.S. Air Force airlift operations in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. 315th Air Division operations show a C-46 Commando transport plane in flight over Korea. The pilot and the co-pilot in the C-46 plane. An aerial view of mountains. Interior of the C-46 shows the cargo in position and the crew making preparations for dropping the cargo. The crew moves the cargo packets into position at the door. They dump the packets out the door. Parachutes drop in the mountainous terrain at low altitude. UN troops stand near the drop area. The C-46 releases packets. A crew member looks out of the cargo hatch. The crew members shove packets out of the cargo door. An airman on a mountain looks through binoculars. Two Korean laborers remove a parachute from a pine tree. UN troopers remove the contents of the packets at the drop zone.
Allied troops advance towards Cologne in World War II, Germany. Map depicts Allied invasion of Western Europe and advance towards Germany. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of UK Winston Churchill, and Soviet President Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta conference in Livadia Palace, Crimea, Russia. British Marshal Bernard Montgomery is seen consulting with General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lieutenant General Omar Bradley. A group of American Sherman tanks firing their guns from a field. A building collapsing from shellfire. American troops firing truck-mounted machine guns equipped with huge enclosed drums of ammunition Glimpse of surrendering German soldiers running toward the camera. Barrages from rocket launchers. British soldiers running into a town with shells bursting and fires burning. An American soldier running behind two German soldiers he is taking as prisoners. US Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft diving to attack. View from cockpit of an aircraft flies through an explosion and fireball. Tanks and infantry advancing and firing. A U.S. P-51 fighter plane with white striped wings flies overhead. American troops riding in an M3 half-track. British soldiers manning a gun. Bombardier in a U.S. bomber bent over his bomb sight. View from aircraft of bombs bursting on the ground raising huge smoke clouds. More German soldiers running forward to surrender. Canadian soldiers moving forward through flooding waters. Canadian Commanding General Henry Crerar is seen with an aide. Canadian troops descending a hill into a town and fighting in the streets. Canadian troops firing mortars and artillery. American armor and infantry occupying a German suburb of Cologne. A woman hangs a large white flag from upper window of her house. Destroyed houses and German soldiers running with their hands held up. U.S. troops entering city of Cologne, with Cathedral in the background. Sherman tank moving toward the Cologne Cathedral.
German troops in Europe during World War II. A German tank commander sitting atop a Pz.38t tank of 12.Pz.Div. He brings a document to field where regular army Soldiers are reviewing maps, at clearing near woods. German Army officers are seated on ground reviewing maps and plans. Two German tanks, crossing a road.
Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini's speaks to a crowd during his declaration of war against the British and French in World War II. The crowd assembled in front of the National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II in Rome, Italy to hear Mussolini's declaration of war. Benito Mussolini speaks from the balcony of Venice Palace. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt makes a speech on Italian perfidy when Italy attacks helpless France. The Italian Army in action during the North African Campaign of World War II. An Italian staff officer on a hill watches a battle. A long line of Italian mountain howitzers fire. An Italian officer looks through binoculars. A radio officer transmits a message. Italian Savoia Marchetti airplane in flight. The airplane drops bombs. An officer looks through binoculars. Two gun crews fire, The shells hit the earth and explode.
Opening scene shows view U.S. soldier atop a tank advancing along a waterway, behind a truck filled with infantry, during the Korean War. A civilian car caught in a flood. An American tank with 3rd Division infantrymen on edge of a flooded area. A civilian vehicle abandoned nearby. Narrator notes that Chinese forces were suffering defeats. Third Division infantry accompanied by armor, advancing in fields. Riflemen firing their weapons at an abandoned train and a building. Tanks advancing with infantry. Third division receives orders to anchor western end of the Iron Triangle in plan to contain Communist forces therein. American Junior officers discuss this with soldiers.
The Aisne-Marne Operation in France during World War 1. American Expeditionary Forces (AEC) 111th Infantry contingent bivouacked on side of a hill in Crezeney, France. Their horses graze in field below. Closeup of soldiers drinking directly from a small pond, and filling containers with water from it. Battle-damaged buildings in the background. Scene shifts to U.S. 119th Field Artillery, near Mount Saint Martin in Lorraine. A gun crew is seen behind an entrenched French heavy gun (Canon de 155mm Long Mle 1917 GPF). Views of the gun breech and open split tail carriage. Closeup of Gunner cranking a control wheel to elevate the gun barrel. He then makes some fine aiming adjustments. Camera focuses on a soldier standing near a large tree trunk and then pans over to the gunner adjusting aim of the 155mm gun. Scene shifts to another gun crew in some shrubbery, firing a French 75 field piece.
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