Republic of China First Lady Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling) addresses army personnel and pilots at an award ceremony. Colonel James H. Doolittle and pilots from the carrier Hornet who bombed Tokyo decorated by General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. (World War II period).
Interiors of a tank assembling factory at the Chrysler Plant. Workers assemble tanks parts at a final assembly line. A completed tank rolls from the assembly line. Tracks fitted to a tank. Tank lifted by overhead crane and moved. Overhead view of the tank factory. Lined up artillery guns. Tank lifted by a crane. A tank rolls in the plant. Workers work at artillery guns. Artillery gun lifted by crane. Assembly line production of tanks.
British convoy of steamers and destroyers underway off the coast of Malta, as part of the allied Malta supply convoy operation. Enemy planes attack the convoy. Antiaircraft (AA) guns fired at the planes. Bombs explode in sea. Tracer bullets fill the night sky. (World War II period).
Locomotives and freight cars move in and out of a large freight yard of the Wabash Railroad, somewhere in the mid-central United States. "Wabash" visible on the side of a boxcar. Railroad train loaded with coal moves along track. Close view of an engine moving out, with heavy smoke emitted from the engine's stack.
Shows large numbers of war planes in the skies over Moscow, Russia during a military strength demonstration for Soviet leadership. Tupolev TB-3 transports and bombers among the aircraft (civilian designation ANT-6). The TB-3 were the world's first cantilever wing, four engine heavy bombers. They had corrugated skin covering. Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov watch the skies during a review in World War II. Russian planes drop bombs on fields. Bombs explode on the fields. Russian paratroopers climb out onto the wing of Tupolev TB-3 aircraft in flight. Troops on wings of the TB-3 aircraft in mid air. Paratroopers slide off from the wings and are airborne, opening parachutes.
Aerial view of a large truck convoy moving along a road. American troops aboard the convoy. The troops head for practice maneuvers as part of training in the United States before deploying to World War II front lines. The convoy stops and soldiers rush out and pitch tents. Rifles together in a tripod. Troops form a chow line outside a tent and eat their food.
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