Earth moving equipment on Pacific islands. A rough terrain and a later view of the same area as an airfield is constructed by equipment. Airplanes fly over a Japanese island. Beaches and pontoon bridges. Steel meshes are laid for construction of airstrips on Bougainville and in the Aleutians. An aircraft lands. Airplanes take off from a runway constructed by earth moving equipment.
Repairing of wrecked bridges by earth moving equipment in Italy. Army trucks and equipment move towards front line. Views of damaged bridges. The damaged bridges are replaced by pontoons and semi permanent bridges.
United States Army engineers find a destroyed road in Italy during World War II. Engineers inspect a mountain road destroyed by retreating German forces in Southern Italy. A rocky terrain and a shoreline. Engineers work on a blasted section with air compressors and jackhammers. The engineers carry oak beams and work to construct a bridge. A Jeep drives on the constructed bridge.
Earth moving equipment in the European Theater. Engineering equipment, camouflaged artillery , drilling equipment, satellite, generators for search lights, mine detectors, rubber pontoons, steel meshes, cranes, road rollers, tractors, steam shovels, jackhammer and bulldozers present. A fleet underway at sea. Ships burn and smoke rises. Engineer and the Seabees march with rifles. Soldiers standing in a line fire guns. (World War II period).
A World War II recruitment film bulletin 'Wanted: Men for Merchant Marine' asking men to join the United States Merchant Marines and go aboard Liberty Ships and other cargo ships supporting the United States war effort during World War 2. A World War II American ship convoy at sea. An official works in Ship Personnel Office aboard a ship. Merchant seamen board a ship. A group of engineers, seamen, radio telegraphers, cooks, bakers and mess men during a training. Supplies are loaded onto a ship. Tanks, bombs and locomotive are hoisted by a crane and loaded onto the ship. Seamen work aboard the ships. Narrator speaks of military materiel delivered by ships and a series of images of American military equipment in action in Europe during World War 2 is shown: Line of camouflage U.S. army tanks fire. U.S. Army Air Force bomber aircraft at an airfield including one with a damaged nose. U.S. Army tractor hauls a long artillery piece on war torn streets of a European city. U.S. Army tank moving by fast on a European paved roadway. A merchant ship at sea. A ship convoy at sea.
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.
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