Japanese Kamikaze pilots in Japan during World War II. A Japanese officer reads out from a paper as he addresses Japanese Kamikaze pilots. The lined up pilots listen. The pilots in flight gear as they drink a toast. They salute an officer. A pilot in the cockpit of an aircraft as it takes off. Officers wave to aircraft as they take off. Japanese Kamikaze pilots receive white head bands from an officer during a ceremony. View of Japanese rising sun image and writing on the head scarves. Kamikaze pilots in a briefing about their mission. An officer gestures with his hands to demonstrate how the pilots are to direct their aircraft straight down and impact the target in suicide mission. View of the pilots during this briefing. They get in cockpits of aircraft and take off for mission. Crews on ground wave to the pilots after the aircraft take off.
Japanese soldiers in China during World War II. Artillery is fired and smoke rises. Wrecked United States Army Air Force and Chinese B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft on Kei Ling airstrip. Wrecked parts of Allied aircraft on a field. A sign reads '12th Service Group Dispensary'. Machine guns and artillery are fired. Smoke rises. Japanese soldiers lying in prone position as they fire at a village.
United States 6th Armored Division in Oberdorla, Germany during World War II. Sherman Tanks on a field during a combined tank infantry attack. Soldiers fire rifles. Soldiers crouched behind the tanks. The tanks and the troops of the 6th Armored Division advance across a field. An M4A3(76) passes on a road. Extended end connectors can be seen attached to its tracks for better mud traction.
United States 6th Armored Division in Oberdorla, Germany during World War II. Tanks and troops of the 6th Armored Division advance across a field during a combined tank and infantry attack.
United States 6th Armored Division in Oberdorla, Germany during World War 2. Smoke rises. Soldiers of the 6th Armored Division follow a tank across a field. The soldiers walk along the sides of buildings as they slowly advance through a street. Tanks move down the middle of the street between the advancing soldiers. The soldiers near a tank in the middle of the town.
American forces of 6th Armored Division advancing through village of Oberdorla, Germany, a month before the end of World War 2, in Europe. U.S. infantrymen moving cautiously near buildings in the village. Two Germans, one wearing a helmet, and the other in civilian clothing, walk past the camera, gesturing. Gunner in an M4 Sherman tank fires machine gun at upper floor of adjacent building, as local citizens scramble out of the way, and U.S. infantrymen move along sidewalk and pause at bend in road. Back to the Sherman tank, and smoke rising from the area of building that it fired upon. American soldiers hurry past the camera and move cautiously along the sidewalk. Two soldiers move slowly along street in a jeep. More views of U.S. infantry accompanied by M18 Hellcat tank destroyer and M4 Sherman tanks moving through the village. A sign identifies village as Oberdorla. The jeep is seen again, moving along with tanks and infantry. It parks outside a building that infantrymen are entering. As soldiers cluster outside the building, one fires several shots into it.
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