The Italian Campaign and battle of Monte Cassino in World War Two. A map shows Italy and surrounding areas. A German soldier reads a local military newspaper called The Southern Front. View of the town of Monte Cassino, with German troops moving cautiously through the rubble. Other German troops under cover in wooded area. They observe American aircraft bombing Monte Cassino. A German officer, in a glen, makes plans with his staff. German troops move along and across a stream and take up positions behind a hill. They fire at Allied troops. Several of them fire grenades from their rifles. Advancing, they come across body of fallen American soldier. An American soldier is taken prisoner. Shoulder patch of the 34th 'Red Bull' Division is seen on his uniform. His captors smoke cigarettes with him, and examine his helmet. Several American soldiers are taken prisoner and escorted to an area where they are questioned.
German troops of KG Peiper advance in Malmedy, Belgium during World War II. A map points out Belgium, Germany and France. Camouflaged German StuG III Assault Guns advance. Flamethrowers used. German soldiers fire at American positions and bombard. German soldiers pass by a U.S. Army motor convoy in flames near Malmedy. The United States prisoners of war in the town under German guard. Red Cross personnel examine the bound bodies of U.S. POW's and, separately, of Belgian civilians massacred by the German troops near Malmedy (the so called Malmedy Massacre). The dead are buried in a common grave. Wrecked houses and buildings. News headline reads: '3rd Army deep in Germany'. Blazing supply depots left by the retreating United States forces. U.S. artillery and antiaircraft guns fired point blank at the advancing German tanks. The U.S. tank guns and machine guns fire over the snowy battlefield. Smoke arises from firing. U.S. and German aircraft engage in dog fights. Contrails across sky. General Eisenhower visits troops at the front. News headlines about Russians smashing German lines and 40 Japanese ships sunk. Views of dead U.S. soldiers on Belgian battlefield.
Ambulances in front of a military hospital. A nurse working with wounded soldiers in a hospital ward. View of wounded but now recovered U.S. Army Air Force soldiers punching a time clock to work at a bomb factory in Denver, Colorado. View of the qquipment yard outside the Colorado Building Supply Company or "COBUSCO". The soldiers and airmen serve as war production workers for 6 hours a day while their recovery continues. Workers work on bomb shell assembly in the arms factory. Some use welding equipment. View of completed bombs on assembly lines. Stacks of completed bombs being inspected before shipment.
Allied Winter offensive into Germany,on the Western Front in World War 2. Allied infantry seen advancing in snow. Brief view of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill at the Yalta conference. Animated sequence showing "pincers" closing on Germany. The British 2nd Army closing in at Hungen,Germany. British infantry moving along a road. Two dogs accompanying them. The British taking German prisoners. Americans of the 7th Army recapturing strategic town of Bingen, Germany. U.S. Army combat photographer filming U.S. troops breaking into buildings. Bodies of dead German soldiers lying in the snow.Residents of Bingen emerge from cellars and other hiding places to be evacuated behind the lines. Families are driven to safety in American Army trucks .At Hagenau, Germany, American troops, under counterattack by German forces, blow up a key bridge. Aerial views of Malmedy, Belgium, where bomb craters line the terrain. Troops of the U.S.30th Division uncover snow-covered bodies of American prisoners of war, at the Baugnez crossroads, who were killed by their German captors . German prisoners of war, mostly airborne troops from 5 FJD, with hands raised, look on apprehensively.
Japanese civilians visit the Yasukuni Shrine (3 Chome-1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-8246, Japan) in Tokyo, Japan for Hanami (Japanese tradition of cherry blossom tree viewing in groups). People gather at the Yasukuni shrine grounds. Sakura cherry blossom trees in full bloom outside the Yasukuni Shrine. A Kasuga-dōrō garden lantern in front of Sakura trees. Japanese people walk in the shrine grounds. Group of women enjoying the cherry blossom trees. Japanese people gather to view cherry blossom trees.
Agricultural progress motivated by the demands of World War II, in the United States. Houses and trees on a farm. Chickens roam in front. Night time battle scenes during World War 2 with smoke, bombs, and tracers. Men work in war material and munitions factories for the manufacturing and production of war tools and equipment. Molten steel poured in molds. A sign, "Defense Plant. Part of the Aresenal of Democracy." Cattle graze on the farm. Recruited and Mobilized United States soldiers march on streets of a town in America. Farmer supervises a grain processing machine in a field. Farmer works on a red Allis-Chalmers tractor. Wheat combine harvester in a field. Corn being harvested in a field. A soybean field and a farmer holds up a soybean plan. A rotating display shows harvested oils and their uses such as heavy soy oil for brake linings, soy flake flour, soy cake coatings and uses in auto parts. Tractor with attachment being used to harvest soybeans.Farmer on tractor on the farm. 'Lake County Oil Mill' written on an oil tank in Tiptonville Tennessee. Rotating display of bottled and canned linseed oil products including oil and paints for painting war equipment. Farmer on tractor harvesting flax seed for linseed oil. Close view of farmer's hands holding flax plants. Production of peanut oil. Farmers hand holding a bunch of peanut plants. Display of peanuts and peanut oil. Tractor driven on peanut farm. Workers harvest peanuts. Farmer on tractor drives on field of castor bean plants. Rotating display shows products made from oils including insecticides, plastics, fibers. Farmers hands holding a bunch of cotton. Worker in field picking cotton. Farmer shows a new variety of longer staple cotton and stretches out the fibers which can be used for parachute cords.
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