Bombed Rail networks at Malines, Belgium. View of damaged rail tracks, twisted iron beams and damaged yards. Damaged marshaling yards and ware houses at Hasselt. Aerial view of destroyed ammunition loaded train. (World War II period).
Rain slows Allied armies in Mediterranean. The 5th Army troops get stranded in flooded San Lorenzo, Italy. Army vehicles drive on streets with heavy water. Trucks drive on muddy roads. The 78th infantry Division tows vehicles stuck in mud. (World War II period).
Soldiers ride army mules in Burma. The mules ferried across Mogaung River in Burma. Supplies brought from India loaded on mules and then on train. Timber trees fallen by 779th Engineers. They place lumber on truck and stock for transportation. (World War II period).
Heavy road rollers working to level a new captured airstrip on Leyte Island during World War 2. U.S. soldiers work laying down Marston Matting. General MacArthur and General G C Kenny visit base near Tacloban on Leyte, Philippine Island and inspect the Marston mat effort. Good views of low flying P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight just above the airfield. Japanese bomber aircraft is fired upon by forces at the airbase. View of aftermath of bombing on Air Base, with destruction seen. Japanese planes attack a supply depot and destroyer ships. Views of several Japanese kamikaze attack aircraft flying toward U.S. Navy ships in Leyte Gulf and being shot off course. A Japanese Kamikaze aircraft crashes into a landing craft infantry (LCI).
View of German Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz. Complete change of scene shows a torpedo being loaded on a German Neger torpedo-carrying craft for a demonstration at Flender-Werke in Lübeck, Germany,during World War 2. Designed by Richard Mohr (whose surname means blackamoor),this craft cannot submerge but runs low, awash in the water. It is seen moving that way in the water and firing its torpedo. Back at the base, the operator, wearing an iron cross, climbs out of the craft. (Note: Not surprisingly, this little torpedo-carrier was sometimes called a human torpedo.)
View of an industrial site in Europe. German soldiers seen during a pause in fighting against British forces during World War 2. A German soldier with net over his steel helmet look intently from a protected position next to a building. Two other German soldiers are seen in a protected enclosure, manning a machine gun. A third soldier, also on the lookout holds a rifle. Another, looking weary and needing a shave, sits in a bunkered spot. Successive closeups of several clean-shaven soldiers, followed by one of an obviously battle-weary veteran soldier.
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