Reconstruction of an airstrip. A plane lands on the airstrip.1st Cavalry Division moves to Manus. A unit of 1st Marine Division moves from Gloucester to Talasea which is only 160 miles from Rabaul. Japanese 17th Army surrenders. Animated map shows 163rd and the 127th Infantry to land at Tadji Airstrip. The 24th and 41st division to land in Hollandia to capture three airstrips Hollandia, Sentani and Cyclops. Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur study maps. The 5th Air Force planes drop bombs on Hollandia. A Japanese convoy is strafed and bombed. Wrecked Japanese planes. Australian infantry advances through New Guinea jungles. Soldiers addressed and explained the importance of team work. 1st Cavalry troops briefed. A General addresses the soldiers through a microphone. (World War II period).
A PBY Catalina of the U.S. Army Air Force, 2nd Emergency Squadron rescues a P-38 pilot. The PBY Catalina flies over water. Two P-38 planes in flight. The PBY Catalina lands in water. A P-38 pilot in water near the raft. The pilot climbs aboard. He writes on a paper. Another man near him. The pilot dries himself and wraps himself up in a blanket. He talks with the pilot of the PBY Catalina while the co-pilot is at controls. He is handed a steel cup with a spoon. Aerial view of Norotai air strip. The PBY Catalina lands. The rescued P-38 pilot climbs out. Another man follows. The rescued pilot shakes hands with a man.
Allied Forces advance during the World War II. The invasion fleet assembles. Soldiers embark on the ships. Ships loaded with supplies and equipment sail towards Italy. A soldier reads a newspaper and a soldier with a puppy. Animated map of Italy shows the landing place between Nettuno and Anzio. Soldiers disembark the ships. Soldiers in barge. They waddle in water to reach ashore. Troops carry load. Tanks roll down landing ships. German planes attack the fleet. An explosion as a ship is hit. The equipment is unloaded. Soldiers march into the city. Dead soldiers in the streets.
Allied Forces advance during the World War II. U.S. troops fight on the Makin Islands in the Pacific. Animated map of Makin Islands. The U.S. soldiers waddle in water to reach the shore. They move through jungle terrain. A soldier talks on the radio. More troops and tanks come in. U.S. planes bomb and strafe the Japanese positions. Captured Korean laborers sit. Dead Japanese soldiers. Lieutenant Colonel James Roosevelt drinks from a cup. Tanks and infantry move forward.
The U.S. Fifth Army in Italy during World War 2. Heavy rains slow advance of American forces. Soldier rides on hood of a jeep as Army vehicles make their way along flooded roads in Italy. A truck pulls a jeep back onto the road after it slid into a gully. Views of rivers that have become roaring torrrents. A pontoon bridge being destroyed by heavy currents. American troops assisting one who was injured in the floods. Infantrymen digging mud without much success until they get help from a construction caterpillar tractor with a large blade. A Red Cross worker struggles through the mud to carry a box filled with donuts for the troops. A carries the box, for her as she struggles to continue slogging through the muddy field. Lieutenant General Mark Clark, Commander of the Fifth Army, is seen eating one of the donuts, while standing in front of a tent, as the Red Cross worker also hands one to a Captain standing nearby. Red Cross worker passes donuts to other soldiers. Glimpse of a Roman Catholic mass being conducted by an Army Chaplain. Nearby, a camouflaged 155mm long tom gun fires at German positions on Mount Camino. American soldiers loading the gun. Other American soldiers watching the gun firing, from a somewhat sheltered position. Explosion is seen in distance from direct hit atop Mount Camino. American forces moving about during their own artillery barrages and firing mortars and bazookas. American wounded being brought on stretchers to a field hospital set up near the battle front. Doctors and medical corpsmen attend to patients in tent treatment areas. One carries supplies of blood plasma. A patient being given a transfusion. Women drawing water from a well in sight of the hospital. American infantry advancing through a gulley. A Truck carries American troops cautiously into an Italian village. German prisoners of war, under guard by American soldiers, wade through a stream on their way to the rear. Ambulances and jeeps gather near a medical reception area in a village, where wounded soldiers are brought on litters. Glimpse of local Italian civilians mingling with American soldiers.
The U.S. turns offensive against Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.A map shows Marshall Islands. A carrier task force of the U.S. Navy. The carrier task force battles Japanese kamikaze planes off the Marshall Islands. U.S. sailors fire artillery at the Japanese planes. The sailors lie down in a prone condition on the deck of the task carrier. The Japanese planes are hit and fall into the Pacific Ocean.
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