November 25, 1943 13th Air Force, South Pacific,during World War 2. A flight of three P-38s in formation with cumulus clouds behind them. Two are being photographed from the third airplane. The lead P-38 demonstrates ability to improve performance for aerial combat, by jettisoning its long range 250 gallon drop tanks and accelerating ahead of the other aircraft.
Narrated feature on the Korean War and the arrival and initial reactions of 24th Division Army troops during the first 50 days of war. Soldiers boarding landing craft and landing on beaches. Tending wounded soldiers. Advancing on foot. U.S. Air Force supply land landing and soldiers unloading boxes from it. Troops assembling with gear. Soldier holding box containing food rations. U.S. Soldiers in line crossing bridges and into towns as Korean citizens look on. South Korean soldiers marching through villages, looking weary from war. Villagers carrying belongings and leaving a town. U.S. soldiers march through an empty town with all shops and homes closed. U.S. soldiers digging gun placements for artillery and machine guns. Soldiers cooking. One stirs pot with knife. Battle scenes with U.S. soldiers firing artillery, rifles, machine guns. Wounded on stretchers.
U.S. Army soldiers during the Korean War in South Korea. Stack of flamethrowers on the ground. 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry regiment, Battalion supply clerk shows a comrade how a flame thrower operates. One of the many wrecked bridges that had to be by passed. A military jeep passes by the bridge.
British soldiers during the Korean War in South Korea. Middlesex Regiment soldiers throw knapsacks onto ground from a truck. British soldiers unloading boxes. Two soldiers rest on the ground. Chow supplies. British soldiers in line to get chow. Soldiers eating.
First Meeting between British 8th Army and the American 5th Army, 35 miles south of Salerno, on a high mountain road near Agropoli, during World War 2. PR officer from the London Irish Army and War Correspondents meet the U.S. Army's 3rd platoon, 36th Division Recon Cavalry troops. The U.S. Army soldiers wait in jeeps at a bend in the road. When the British group arrives they stop and talk together. Then views of a company of the 504 Abn Infantry on the Via Roma entering Albanella Italy. A half-track personnel carrier is seen followed by several M10 Tank destroyers. from Company C of the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, driving through town on September 14th, 1943. Views of M4 Sherman tanks on the roads of Albanella. (Note: The location where Infantry and tank views was taken has been identified as the intersection of Via Piazzie Chiesa and Via Roma at coordinates: 40 degrees 28' 41.29"N/15 degrees 06' 52.24"E.)
Lieutenant General George S. Patton addresses troops from an outdoor stage and then awards Silver Stars for gallantry to members of the U.S. Army 39th Infantry, 9th Division, in Capo Playa, near Cefalu, Italy. Patton awards the medals and then the soldiers form into groups from their respective home states, which include New Jersey, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. The army band is seen standing near the soldiers. The soldiers parade in front of the officers. Awarded soldiers take off their helmets and pose for photographers. Close-ups of soldiers with medals while flags from the honor guard wave in background. (World War 2. WWII. WW2.)
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