'General MacArthur's forces launch drive on Japanese forces in New Guinea, during World War 2. Allied war equipment including airplanes unloaded at an Australian port. United States B-24, B-17 bombers launch an air attack on Japanese positions in New Guinea. Bombs dropped and cause an impact. Air gunner in one of the bombers looks down at impacting bombs.
Newsreel entitled "Day and night RAF makes Nazis take it". Royal Air Force 20 planes in flight over water. Bombs dropped over an occupied French town under German control during World War 2. Ports and buildings bombed. Pilots get ready for a flight. Carrier pigeons in the cages. A man carrying pigeons hands over one of the cage to a pilot. Pilots board Halifax bomber and take off after the sunset. P-40 escort planes in flight. Bombs dropped over Nazi positions as flares seen at night.
Valentin Gubitchev guilty of conspiring with Judith Coplon to commit espionage comes out of a building as photographers take his pictures. After the suspension of his 15 year sentence Gubitchev deported to Russia. He embarks a ship named ' Batory' and it sails away from the port in New York, United States.
Supervisor is seen speaking to workers at a construction site. Several men lean on shovels. Scene shifts to porch of a building displaying sign identifying it as belonging to the National Maritime Union of the CIO. Two men stand on the porch and a large American flag is displayed. In downtown area, a sign on a porch reads: "Comitelocal Union Republikana" (Local Union Republican Committee). A flag fluttering in the breeze contains words: "Pan-Tierra-Libertad." Glimpse of the Puerto Rico Capitol Building with American flag at front. View of Port of San Juan from airplane flying over waterfront. Another view, from the street, of the Capitol building. Glimpse of wooden ships in harbor. Sign on building reading: "Consulado del Uruguay."
North African campaign in World War 2. Film begins with antiaircraft fire from an Allied ship, at dusk, directed at German bombers (unseen). Next, flames are seen and smoke rising from an Allied ship that has been struck by a bomb. A Destroyer Escort nearby and a small vessel in background, both send morse code messages by signal lamps. The camera boat moves around to port, astern,the striken ship, where the fire is concentrated, and moves closer as smoke obscures the stricken ship entirely. In next sequence, smoke is seen rising from two smaller ships that have also been hit.
Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. A man picks up a shrapnel out of an ammunition ready box. He examines the piece of shrapnel and one of the holes made in the ready box by the shrapnel. A port hole in the conning tower of an Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) as a piece of shrapnel lies on it. An LCVP ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) tries to tow a British landing craft that has been turned upside down. A transport ship in the background. The breakwater at Normandy beach made up of sunken ships. Barrage balloons fly in the sky. A broken LCVP. Two LCTs ( Landing Craft Tank ) beached in the background.
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