Activities of the Allies in the European Theater during World War II. Officers and prisoners walk up a gangway aboard an Allied ship. Wounded German prisoners being brought aboard the ship heading for France. Bombs being loaded aboard a Royal Air Force (RAF) Short Stirling bomber at an airbase in the UK. A flight crew boards the aircraft and is in the cockpit. A gunner at a mounted machine gun aboard the airplane. A captured German Ju-88 aircraft being performance tested at an air base in England. Near head-on view of the JU-88 taking off. View of tail rising as it gains speed and is about to break ground. Views of the JU-88 in flight over the airdrome. A RAF Hawker Hurricane takes off. The aircraft in flight. The aircraft attacks a Nazi ship in the North Sea. Explosions occur at the sea. A Nazi U boat being captured by a RAF Coastal Command airplane. The British flag flies aboard the German submarine. The German captain of the U-boat seen up close with grim expression on his face. British civilians on dock in harbor wave their hats and cheer as the captured U-boat approaches the dock.
U.S. soldiers aboard a ship underway in the English Channel during World War II. A soldier smokes a cigarette. Soldiers sleep aboard a landing craft as they head towards Normandy, France. A soldier opens a ration can aboard the craft. Two soldiers look towards an invasion fleet in a harbor.
Film opens showing a Captain, Intelligence officer with the U.S 8th Airforce 97th Bombardment Group, debriefing Captain William “Bill” Musselwhite, Commander of the 342nd Bombardment Squadron, about his unit's experience participating in the first Eighth Air Force heavy bomber mission in World War II, attacking the Rouen-Sotteville marshalling yards in France, on August 17, 1942. Referring to a map, he asks Captain Musselwhite where his Squadron dropped their bombs. Musselwhite points out the path of his units aircraft and that his first aircraft overshot the target, but those following dropped "on range," bracketing the target on left and right, with one "stick" of bombs going right down the middle. He mentions one ship straying over the town of Rouen, itself.
Aerial views of Italy and France during World War II. Aerial view of a battle scarred farmland. Flares dropped over the farmland. An American cemetery at Anzio. A battle scarred farmland, flares dropped. A British cemetery in Anzio, Italy. The sun's reflection over water. An aircraft flies over a battle scarred farmland and tank traps. Corsican coastline. A mountain ridge and a waterfall. Buildings in a town.
Aerial views of Italy and France during World War II. Aerial view of a town. A river and bomb craters on a field. A flooded farmland. Buildings on the flooded farmland. A road across a farmland and continues over flooded farmland. Clouds over a mountain.
Aerial views of Allied air attack in the European Theater during World War II. Gun sight aiming point view of a train strafed by an American aircraft, smoke rises. The pilot in a U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft in flight over Corsica, France. Pilot with the oxygen mask. Aircraft flies over a town. Gun sight aiming point view of a field being strafed. Buildings in the field. Smoke rises.
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