U.S. Army Air Force B-24s bombing targets in Japanese-held areas of Indochina, during the Second World War. View of U.S. Army Air Force B-24 from waist gun position of another B-24. View from B-24 (below 10,000 feet) over an airfield. Waist gunner poses, without oxygen mask, at his machine gun (not firing). View from 17,500 feet as B-24s bomb a supply depot in Hanoi. Clouds of smoke rise from numerous bomb explosions. B-24s on mission to bomb Haiphong, Indochina. Aerial view of B-24 named "80 Days," with two dice (a Five and a Three) pictured under its name. Bombs falling from B-24s as they bomb smelting and foundry plants from 17,000 feet over port city of Haiphong. Smoke rising from targets.
Wreckage and debris in Munda, New Georgia Island, during World War 2. Workers clear field at Munda Point. Air Force construction team clear area using power shovel and road graders. Supply and ammunition base of the island. TBF planes taxi on runway. C-47 crew unload bomb carriers. Loaded bomb carriers move out towards flight line. Control Tower operators look at a P-39. It taxis and takes off. B-25 (Mitchell Bomber) makes forced belly landing.
A B-24 Liberator bomber with nose art painted name "Laden Maiden,"of the USAAF 5th Bombardment Group, sits with engines running,on Munda Point airfield, New Georgia Island, preparing to take off to bomb Japanese shipping near Truk, during World War 2. Broader view shows two squadrons of B-24s preparing for the mission as a rain storm sweeps the island. The aircraft begin taxiing for takeoff. One with nose art name "Tim-ber," shows 25 bombs, for missions, painted on its fuselage. One departing B-24 is seen to use a long takeoff run. Narrator describes difficulties encountered by one B-24 that had to ditch during the mission. Sequence shifts to post-mission scenes the day after the planes returned to Munda.Injured crew members from the ditched B-24, who had been rescued by a Navy PBY, are being transferred to a C-47 aircraft for evacuation to a medical facility. A B-24 is seen taking off on a new mission to bomb Japanese Naval base at Rabaul. View of control tower with several B-24s in formation overhead.
Peaceful scenes of pre-war England, showing a church with sheep grazing on its lawn, and a college building with ivy growing on the walls. In contrast, explosion and results of German bombing is shown, with buildings collapsing and ruined from the German blitz over England. A long line of Chinese soldiers marching along the Great Wall of china. Shadows of three Japanese bombers flying over Chinese landscape. On May 4, 1942, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek decorates American fliers who made the first attack on Tokyo in World War 2. Wearing a Chinese decoration around his neck, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who led that raid by U.S. B-25 bombers from the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, poses with Madame Chiang and others of his group. Scenes of Moscow, Soviet Russia, including a T-70 light tank moving rapidly along a city street. A Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber taking off in a snow storm. U.S. troops on a halftrack in North Africa. British artillerymen firing a 25 pounder in the desert. Glimpses of smoke rising from enemy strikes at cities in England, Russia, and China. Scenes of destruction from bombing. Brief street scenes of unharmed and intact towns and cities in the United States, including brief New York City scene of pedestrians and traffic in Times Square. Defense workers in America going to work at Ranger Aircraft Engines factory (later part of Fairchild Aircraft and Engine Corporation), and a star flag showing war service by worker families. Farmers in Western U.S. harvesting grain. Railroad trains and river barges carrying harvest from U.S. farms. Herds of cattle and sheep being raised for the war effort in Western U.S. Aerial view of orchards and farms in America. A mining bucket filled with iron ore. Barge carrying the ore. A steel mill in operation. Scrap iron being recycled. View from production floor of U.S. bomber aircraft being built in a defense plant. Countless freight cars in a railroad marshaling yard at a port, where a tug boat and a freighter are seen in the water. War materiel piled up at the port. A convoy of supply ships underway.
Antisubmarine activities of the United States Coast Guard ( USCG ) in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Cutters and airships of the USCG and U.S. Navy patrol around a convoy underway. U.S. Navy airship in the air. The U.S. Navy, the USCG and the U.S. Merchant Marine work together. An officer watches enemy action through binoculars. The U.S. flag flying from a flag mast. A man watches through binoculars and other men prepare for a counter attack. Man operates signal light to relay information. Depth charges readied and guns are fired from the ships. They sink a German submarine after it torpedoes a merchant ship. Merchant seamen come aboard a cutter from a life raft.
Moviemaking and distribution by the U.S. Army during World War 2. Scenes of New York City skyline at night and street scenes in daytime. U.S. Servicemen in South Pacific, the arctic, and in Egypt. Soldiers marching and watching training films.Scenes on set of training film being made about care of wounded. Soldiers checking out films and motion picture projection equipment at an Army library. Comments regarding popularity of the "Fighting Men," "Why we fight,"and other series of war time motion pictures. Soldier technicians inspecting and repairing films and equipment. Discussions and sample slates of films translated into various languages. Views of soldier actors, producers, directors, and technicians enter movie studio buildings to produce films.
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