Overseas activities of United States Coast Guard in World War II. U.S. Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L) 617, part of LCI Flotilla 22 in World War 2. She is seen underway in rough waters of the Pacific ocean during 1945. Coast Guardsman ordered to Battle stations. A Coast Guardsman observes approaching enemy aircraft through binoculars. Coast guard gunner fires Antiaircraft guns using foot trigger. Enemy aircraft crashes in ocean. A Coast Guardsman signals using semaphore flags. Beachhead supply operations. Coast Guard Picket Boat, CG-42022, seen patrolling around U.S. transport ships in a Persian port, while they carry lend lease supplies to the Soviet Union. Coast Guard combat patrol in jungle using canines (dogs). The Cactus (A) Class 180 foot buoy tender, USCGC Tupelo placing a buoy at sea. Releasing a weather balloon. A Coast Guard wooden 83 foot cutter ("83 footer"). Loading a Coast Guard B-24 aircraft on Guam. The plane takes off. Invasion task force of U.S. warships underway. Coast Guard crews at various duty stations aboard their ships during the war. The former luxury ocean liner, SS Manhattan underway, her decks crowded with troops, following her conversion into the U.S.Coast Guard-manned USS Wakefield (AP-21). U.S. Navy attack transport USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) at sea in the Pacific. Coast Guard operating transport ships unloading cargo for Allied invasion forces and running inter-island shipping service in the Pacific, during World War II.Landing Ship Tank (LST-788) arriving at the beach next to Landing Ship Medium, LSM-242, on Iwo Jima. A Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) being driven off LST-760. USS LCI(L)-87, Flagship of LCI Flotilla 10. Her Captain, M. E. Imlay, USCG, is seen on her bridge, before departing from England for the Normandy invasion. U.S. Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L)-668 at beach and troops wading ashore.
U.S. Coast Guard Cutters on patrol in waters off Greenland in World War 2. Views of icebergs. The cutter 'Northland' trapped in pack ice. A party of crew members drag a depth bomb across the ice to explode and clear the way ahead. Off the coast of Shannon Island, American guns fire at a German trawler. Coast Guardsmen launch an amphibious assault against Shannon Island, and capture Germans at an outpost on the Greenland site. High powered radio equipment and weather instruments captured from weather stations. Small boats carry German prisoners -- the crew of German trawler captured by the U.S. Coast Guard.
German occupied Paris, during World War II, around time of liberation of Paris. The Grand Palace (Grand Palais), a Free French stronghold, is set on fire by German troops under orders of German General Dietrich von Cholitz, Commander of the Paris Garrison. Dense smoke rises from the building. Clouds of smoke cover the top of the building. Shadow of trees in water.
Military training film depicts the causes of indicator jamming on the radio set, SCR-268. A ship underway. Newspaper headlines read about the German battleships which escaped British Army because their radio signals were jammed. Soldiers talk on radio. During Jamming weird pattern start appearing on the monitor screen. Sensitivity knob of the radio. Signs of jamming are seen. Scene changes to a civilian couple in a family living room sitting on a couch beside a console radio. They listen to the radio and talk. The man gets up and adjusts the tuning dial and the volume dial on the radio. The couple switches off radio because of interference in the radio broadcast. An animated diagram explains the jamming. Radio waves bounce back from the target. Target sends radio energy longer then those that bounce back. Jamming takes place. Jamming can be improved by making adjustments. (World War II period).
German counter attack in Battle of the Bulge, in world War 2. U.S. Army Sherman tank crews load artillery shells and fire from wooded positions. U.S. artillery crews load shells and fire heavy guns under camouflage nets. Scene changes to German forces: German infantry advancing past knocked out U.S. artillery piece and Sherman tank. A Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer rolls by behind the soldiers and the wreckage of tanks from recent battle. German Panzer V "Panther" tank advances, with several soldiers riding on top, followed by a Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer with a few German soldiers in and on top of it. Grille Ausf. M self-propelled artillery gun fires. German infantry and trucks with German soldiers enter a village. British RAF Hawker Typhoon aircraft dive and fire rockets at German ground targets. U.S. forces fire artillery and regroup in a forest. U.S. troops move through water and mud in a town. U.S. Army soldiers carry wounded on stretchers. British troops escort German prisoners of war in a town. U.S. Army trucks move through deep water flooding the main street of a small town. An American soldier places his foot on edge of a bin and water pours out of his boot. American soldiers take a chow break to eat.
Bombing in Tokyo. U.S. aircrafts stand on an air base. Automobiles on the ground. U.S. Soldier writes 'Only the beginning' on a bomb. U.S. pilots briefed by an officer. Pilots confer near an aircraft. The pilots climb in B-29 bomber aircraft. Planes taxi and take off. They fly through heavy flak. Animated maps show the planes flying over and bombing on Tokyo. Aerial view of Tokyo. Smoke rises up due to explosions. Planes in flight. (World War II period).
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