Attacking Japanese aircraft overhead of Task Group 77.4.1 ("Taffy 1") during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II. Navy Captain M.E. Browder of USS Sangamon on bridge, talks into radio and scans skies. Gun crews in 20MM gun pits. Japanese planes overhead and many flak bursts over water. Ship on horizon activating signal blinker.
Alsos mission carried out by United States Alsos mission personnel in Europe during World War II. Unit welcomed by the French civilians in Paris. Alsos personnel pass on vehicles and crowd from roadside cheers. Colonel Boris T. Pash meets an officer in a building. Celebrations in streets of Paris. Plane over Arc de Triomphe and crowd march on street. Alsos personnel walk out of a building and get on jeeps. Personnel leave in jeeps.
U.S. Army personnel in Strasburg seize German scientific records and personnel as a part of Alsos mission in World War 2. Two Sixth United States Army officer talk and jeeps parked in Strasburg. Man open gates and Captain Augustine leaves in jeep. Sixth Army men stand near jeeps parked.
Food and gasoline ration in United States during World War II. People lined up outside a grocery store. Signs in the stores show lack of supplies. People at the counters. Gasoline Ration Card's close view. Women and men at the stores. Cars at a fueling station in Washington DC. A service station attendant pumps gas into a waiting automobile that has proper ration cards to receive the fuel. The U.S. Capitol building is visible in the background behind the car being fueled. Roads and streets with very little traffic due to gas rationing. View of pigs hanging from hooks in a meat processing plant, and being moved by meat packing workers along the processing line. Sign at the grocery store window reads 'Tuesday is meatless and also is eat-less'. Housewife in kitchen pouring fat through strainer and saving the fat oil for war effort. Young woman turns in a can of fat at the market and receives coupon for extra meat points and 4 dollars per pound of fat. Woman in kitchen crushes a tin can and puts it in a scrap metal bin to return to store for recycling. Giant trucks dumping tin collected for recycling into waiting rail boxcars. Cargo trains filled with scrap aluminum moving along railway tracks. At conclusion of World War II, sign at the fuel station reads 'Gas Rationing off No Stamps Required'. Man fuels a car. Late 1930s and mid 1940s era cars move on the road.
Russians officers enter a building in Stalingrad. Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov at the desk with other Soviet officers. German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus enters the office to surrender. Marshal Friedrich and other German officers seated. Soviet guns fire in celebration. Celebrations and fire works in Stalingrad. Smiling faces of women. (World War II period).
A guard marches in the compound of a hotel. United Kingdom's Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated. French General Charles de Gaulle. General George Marshall with U.S. Air Force Chief, Lieutenant General Henry H. (Hap) Arnold. General Marshall with British General Brooke. Sir Dudley Pound, British Naval Chief, with American counterpart, Admiral William D. Leahy. Winston Churchill and President Franklin D Roosevelt seated and other British and American officials stand behind. American and British troops meet in Tunisia. Troops share cigarettes in the battlefield. General Eisenhower shakes hands with British General Montgomery. British troops advance in the battlefield. Aircraft of Allied Forces strafe German targets on the ground. American tanks advance. German prisoners marched off by French soldiers. German prisoners captured. Crowd cheers in a French city which was occupied by Germans earlier. French soldiers and crowd celebrate. (World War II period).
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