A World War 2 amphibious beachhead is seen with numerous ships offshore, and a barrage balloon aloft overhead. USS Landing Ship Medium number 553 is pulled up close to a transport ship from which an army truck is being offloaded. Numerous U.S. troops are seen on the transport deck. Another Landing Ship Medium (number 541) is c.lose to a transport ship. A Benham class destroyer is seen. A Coast Guard Captain smokes a cigarette as he looks out a porthole on his ship. A U.S. wartime supply convoy at sea. An officer sounds an alarm aboard a U.S. Combat Coast Guard Cutter. Crew responds and fires depth charges against a German submarine. The submarine surfaces and the Cutter fires at it using a deck gun. View of oil on the water.
Close-ups of Soviet soldiers aiming their rifles. British soldiers, carrying Enfield rifles, advance in rocky terrain. Allied Colonial troops fighting in jungles. Paratroopers jumping from an airplane. American soldiers following an armored vehicle through heavy foliage, and then running through a street and taking defensive positions during combat in a battle damaged town. An American M3 Lee medium tank (with name “Andy” written on it) firing its heavy gun in the center of a town. Its Shell bursts in a building and blows part of it into the street. The troops continue advancing and walk over a sign on the ground,displaying a swastika. Scenes shift to home fronts of Allied countries, where people are working in machine shops, forges, welding shops, and war plants, fabricating weapons. Final scene shows two American soldiers firing a Browning M1917 water-cooled machine gun.
Headlines about Normandy victory, bombing of Tokyo, and Philippines during World War II. Worker in war plants, Allied planes drop bombs over enemy positions in Europe. Allied invasion of Normandy and victory. Celebrations in Paris and liberation of Brussels. Franklin D. Roosevelt reelected as President after defeating Thomas A. Dewey.
'US Navy speeds fighting planes to war fronts'. Admiral William Halsey inspects sailors and marines lined up on board a ship in Europe during World War II. Deck crew places P 40 fighter planes in formation. Planes taxi along and take off. Planes in flight. 'Eagles quit RAF to fly with Yanks'. Pilots of Eagle Squadron stand in ranks on board a ship. Brigadier General Frank Hunter pins up insignia onto them. Pilot parade and American flag hoisted.
The Dardanelles Campaign during World War I. French ships join British Squadron for the Dardanelles Campaign. Smoke rises up from the smokestacks of the ships. French sailors at work aboard ships loading and firing torpedoes during battle. Loading of large naval guns. Naval guns fired. Firing at submarines and enemy German ships. German fleet and French fleet underway. Ships sink due to attack by torpedoes. Navy sailors aboard the ships. Explosions in water.
A German U-boat underway at sea. A sinking freighter. The crew of the U-boat fires a deck gun at the sinking freighter. Explosion in the sea and smoke rises up due to explosions. Repeated sinking of ships during World War 1. United States President Thomas Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war. United States Navy fleet joins British fleet. U.S. Navy ships underway at sea to join British. Sailors aboard ships. Smoke rises from smokestacks of ships. British King George V welcomes United States fleet. Men stand and salute as King George V arrives aboard a U.S. Navy vessel.
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