Bombing campaigns in German-occupied Northern France and in Wuppertal, Germany. Two aviators from free French squadrons stationed in England climb into A-20 "Boston Bombers". View of bombers in flight low over water and then over towns of northern France. A-20s along with B-25 bombers bomb industrial areas over northern France. Views of smoke clouds, destroyed targets and impact of bombing. Dutch squadrons in B-25 aircraft attacking Nazi harbor installations. Aerial view of Wuppertal Germany being bombed at night. (World War II period).
British flying boat patrol bomber Sunderland in England during World War II. Sunderland patrol bomber is parked and crewmen stand near the patrol. Sunderland takes off for a North Sea mission. Sunderland underway at the North Sea and takes off. A man looks through a camera. A man at the controls. Sunderland in flight over the North Sea. Nazi German U-boats in the sea.
Smoke rises in the sea during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. A boat carries U.S. Marines at sea. 40mm shells hit in water. Explosions at sea.
French Foreign Legionnaires during practice landings under U.S. Navy supervision in North Arfica. French soldiers in Landing Crafts Vehicle Personnel (LCVP). Landing Crafts move in the sea towards the beach. Soldiers crouched in the crafts. They get off the crafts and wade through the water towards the beach. A French flag on a craft. Crafts approach beach. The soldiers move inland amidst set dummy explosions. (World War II period).
Animated map of fishing grounds around Japan that provide one fourth of the world's catch. Movement of the seasonal catch is tracked as it moves Northward during the year. Men and women engaged in commercial fishing, gathering in nets teeming with fish. Fishing boats plying waters of an inland sea. Fishing boats moored along the shores. Larger seagoing fishing boats leaving to operate along the coast of Honshu. Fishermen letting out nets from these boats and using cable winches to retrieve them. Views of refrigerated Japanese fishing ships that also freeze their catches, operatiing in the Siberian maritime provinces and in Alaskan and Arctic waters. Fishing boats, operating before World War 2, are seen pulling crabs aboard. View inside a floating cannery ship where salmon and crabmeat are being canned for export to places like the U.S.A. Closeup of a can displaying "ICEBOUNDBRAND" and text reading: " World Renowned Floating Cannery Pack Fresh from the Deep Sea Waters of Northern Japan. Net contents 13ounces. SELECTED CRABMEAT." Japanese wading in a river, and using trained cormorants, to catch fish. View of fisherman taking fish from his cormorant and placing them into a large jug. view of edible seaweed being harvested and laid out in the sun, in racks. Animated illustration of Japanese man and items included in his dinner of rice, soybean, fish, sea slugs, sea urchins, octopus, lily bulbs, bamboo shoots, bean curd and pickled fruits and vegetables, accompanied by a little saki (rice wine).
Italian Expeditionary Forces at Northern Africa Front. Soldiers of Italian Expedition Force comes out of fox holes. They run out from dugouts. Machine gun emplacement at battle field. Soldiers fire guns. They look through binocular. Trucks and bikes in field. Soldiers run in trenches. Soldiers run in field with machine guns and fire in prone position. Airborne troops land on isolated emergency airfield built by Britishers on the desert. Paratroopers destroy gasoline and munition dumps in field. Soldiers stand with covered artillery. Troops get in aircraft with guns. Italian Expeditionary Forces in Malta: Air raid over Malta. Pilots get on planes. Plane taxis and takes off. Airplane in flight. Pilots in cockpit. Air plane in flight over sea. Aerial view of Malta Island. (World War II period).
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