Armored combat training at Fort Irwin and the National Training Center (NTC) in Mojave, California. U.S. trainees fire from tanks on targets. An officer in a control tower. The trainees bring their targets for scoring. A trainee points to the hits on a target. The trainees stand near a score board at the base of the control tower. They are in a line for lunch. The trainees sit on the ground and eat lunch.
U.S.General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Powers Europe, aboard USS Des Moines (CA-134) with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. General Eisenhower takes photographs of United States Navy Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney and Vice Admiral Matthias B. Gardner with his stereo camera. Sailors and marines in formation on the deck. Dwight David Eisenhower, Robert Bostwick Carney and Matthias B. Gardner talk. A Sikorsky H-5 helicopter rises from the deck and flies off. USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) at sea. The rails of USS Des Moines (CA-134) in the foreground. Several carrier-based aircraft put on a demonstration, strafing and firing rockets into the water.
Many commercial barges tied up next to one another along banks of a river blocked by a destroyed bridge in France during World War 2. Numerous tug boats also tied up along the river bank. View from one bank of the remains of the bridge completely blocking river traffic. A man rows a small boat from the near shore. Camera pans over the wreckage. Next workers are seen repairing the bridge. Water flows rapidly through an open section of new substructure. A barge loaded with men and steam driven equipment is on the up-river side of the bridge. Black smoke issues from burning coal or oil powering the barge. A single new walkway spans above the bridge opening. Next is a closeup of the work barge with steam rising from it. A different section of the bridge structure is seen next, with a gang of workmen on new bridge decking and others working from below on a barge. Closeup of workers installing the bridge decking. One is cutting excess length of a board, with a hand saw. Several men looking over the edge of the bridge deck at water flowing through spillways underneath it. Closeup of a diver in complete diving gear, including a metal helmet, working at the base of the bridge. Man climbing a ladder from a steel section of bridge. Worker using an Oxy-Acetylene Cutting Torch to remove a damaged section of steel. Tugboats plying the river. Local citizens watching the tugboats from atop a downstream bridge. as boat traffic resumes with the upstream bridge repaired. Closeup of tugboat passing under the bridge. Glimpse of tugboat under a graceful undamaged bridge. Closeup of a bulk carrier powered barge passing a bridge filled with spectators. A clamshell bucket grabbing material from the barge and raising it to load it somewhere.
Animated map shows Guadalcanal, where Japanese were building up a base to interdict Allied supply routes to Australia, in World War 2. U.S. marines in full battle gear board a troop transport ship. Convoy of transport ships headed to Guadalcanal. A Benham class destroyer bombarding the island from close range. On 8 August, 1942, the day after the amphibious assault on Guadalcanal, U.S. marines of the 3rd Defense Battalion, are seen descending rope net from the Transport ship USS Zeilin (AP-9, later designated APA-3) to enter landing craft headed ashore to reinforce marines fighting Japanese defenders on Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo, in the Solomon Islands. U.S. ship firing its guns. U.S. marines wading ashore, relatively unapposed at Guadalcanal, on 7 August, 1942. U.S. Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber taking off from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. Two officers with large binoculars are seen aboard a Japanese warship flying her Naval ensign. A Japanese Nakajima B5N torpedo bomber (Kate) taking off from carrier. A formation of Japanese Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (Oscar) or Ki-44 Shōki (Tojo) aircraft in flight. Closeup of two overhead in silhouette. Glimpse of U.S. carrier (USS Wasp?) taking evasive action. Sky filled with puffs of black Flak at low altitude and contrails from dogfights at high altitude. Closeup of a Japanese Mitsubishi B5M Type 97 Carrier Attack Bomber (Mabel) with others in formation in background. Bombs falling. View from carrier island of sailors running across deck of U.S. Carrier with smoke rising at site of bomb strike. Smoke obscuring the deck and beginning to clear. View from different U.S. carrier deck, past parked aircraft, to a camouflaged U.S. destroyer approaching astern. Carrier deck with Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers parked at its end, and black flak clouds overhead. Several night naval gun battle scenes followed by view of burning Japanese ship. Closeup of the wreck of the Japanese transport ship, Kinugawa Maru and views of other Japanese ships burning. U.S. army troops are seen marching along the sides of a road as they arrive in December, 1942, to relieve the marines on Guadalcanal. View of the embarkation operation on the shore as marines prepare to depart. Marines getting aboard Higgins boats (landing craft) for transport out to their transport ship, the USS Neville (AP-16, later redesignated APA-9).
Animated map shows U.S. forces extending control in the Pacific the the Marshall and Gilbert Islands in the Pacific during World War 2. An American soldier sentry near a destroyed Japanese reinforced concrete bunker. Another looks at a destroyed Japanese coastal gun. More American soldiers looking over destroyed Japanese coastal defenses. A destroyed Japanese type 95 HA-GO tank. A U.S. troops look at a destroyed Japanese Mitsubishi G4M (Betty) bombers on a captured airfield. Animated map of New Guinea.showing Allied advance to Hollandia. U.S. aircraft carriers with their aircraft flying overhead. Closeup from behind of a Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft taking off from a carrier. Formations of U.S. Navy carrier-based aircraft in flight overhead. Escort aircraft carriers (called "Jeep" carriers by the narrator) are seen with decks full of airplanes. Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft taxiing on a carrier deck. An F6F fighter plane taking off. A formation of Douglas SBD Dauntless airplanes viewed from above, flying over the sea. Gun camera films from U.S. aircraft strafing parked airplanes on Japanese airfields.
A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. Two granite columns on each side of an entrance. The displaced columns. The base of a granite column shows the extent and direction of displacement. A shattered wall in the background. Two granite columns felled by a blast. Two granite columns in a state of collapse in the background.
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