Aerial view of Allied tanks and trucks advancing along a road to Rome, Italy. United States soldiers advance in fields. German prisoners are marched past wrecked German equipment. A sign reads 'Roma'. Wounded are brought in ambulance on stretchers. The wounded are given first aid and plasma. (World War II period).
General George Patton is welcomed at Palermo in Sicily and meets with Catholic Church Cardinal Lavitrano. Army Engineers construct mountain highways. The crew is seen working and using dynamite charges in mountain side to more quickly build a road bed for advancing supplies. Road building machinery at work. Bridges are constructed. Captured Italian soldiers and Italian officers are marched as prisoners of war in Sicily.
World War II Allied convoy underway at sea. Allied forces amphibious landing at Salerno at night, in Italy. Darkness illuminated by flashes of gunfire. Navy guns blast enemy positions and German planes. German warplanes bombing and strafing Allied ships. Several Allied ships burning. Helmsman on Allied landing craft looks back at German plane falling into sea, when he takes cover away from the tiller. General Mark Clark rides to shore in a landing craft along with his troops. 5th Army troops dig in furiously on the beachhead and dive into their foxholes as they come under German firing. British General Harold Alexander, commander of Allied 15th Army Group confers with U.S. General Mark Clark. Nurses arrive by C-47 aircraft and treat wounded soldiers. Views of destroyed German armor and artillery including German Pz.IV tank from 16th Panzer Division. Nurses and medics load Allied wounded onto landing craft for evacuation. German prisoners of war walk under armed escort and dig graves to bury their dead. Allied forces move forward on battlefront. Several Allied C-47 transport planes are seen flying low over the area.
Operation Shingle during World War II. U.S. troops attack German positions in the Anzio area of Italy. They fire bazookas, small arms and machine guns. A burning U.S. Sherman tank, with "20 MPH" marked on the front. German soldiers are captured and they carry a wounded comrade on a stretcher. A number of German prisoners of war are seen in a group.
Japanese civilians seen working. Japanese Army and Navy stand first in social rankings, followed by Aristocratic families and political leaders whereas last in social rankings, are the civilians. Animated pictures seen. Japanese police taking civilians to prisons. Fanatic organization's leader seen. Newspaper headlines showing murder of Premier by the fanatic organization. Japanese children in classrooms. A motto reads 'Hakko Ichin'. (World War II period).
Map depicting area of conflict in Crimea during World War 2. It shows Crimea and Kerch peninsula, with Black Sea to South and Azov Sea to North. Kerch, Yalta, and Sevastopol are highlighted. Antiaircraft guns firing tracer bullets in the dark. German artillerymen firing heavy field piece. German infantry moving into and out of a deep trench. German troops hunkered down defensively in a trench. Artillery shell exploding in field. German officers conversing in a trench. German infantrymen in a trench, adjusting their person gear. One of them looking skyward as he chews a morsel of food. German Ju 78 Stuka dive bombers in flight, and diving on ememy targets. German tanks and trucks moving along dirt roads. Truck maneuvering around knocked out vehicles at side of road, containing ammunition. Knocked out heavy guns and tanks. Hatless German soldiers walking toward the rear. German soldiers using horses and wagons to move supplies through muddy terrain. Ju 78 Stuka dive bombers taking off in formation from farm fields. Dornier Do 17 bombers in formation and bombing Soviet targets on the Kerch Peninsula. Smoke rising as bombs explode on the ground. German troops riding on a truck, and setting up defensive positions. German infantry moving through a town. One German soldier firing a captured soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun from behind a parked car. A German soldier placing a hand grenade inside a building and taking cover as it explodes. A StuG III tank destroyer on a street at a seaport with German infantry walking behind it. Soviet troops being taken as prisoners.
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