United States Army Lieutenant William Diebold talks over radio as Sergent Harry Bremer pumps power to the radio set in Shingbwiyang,Burma during World War II. The two of them talk on hand radio to a Naga chieftain. A black engineer cooks food in a large pot. Lieutenant Diebold talks to Naga chieftain in sign language. Sergent Bremer,Captain Brane and Lieutenant Scott bathe in water flowing from rocks. Men send smoke flare signals for planes.
United States planes drop medical supplies and engineers gather supply parachutes in Shingbwiyang, Burma during World War II. Captain R.D.Underwood, and an assistant prepare and inject penicillin to Captain James I. Green's leg. Captain Green's jaw being examined and given liquid diet.
United States 28 Troop volunteers and black combat engineers chop trees and blast the strip in Shingbwiyang, Burma during World War II. Sergeant Bremer and Captain Scott fix dynamites in the blast holes and blast goes off. Colonel Clarence and Major Arthur R. Dewey, special surgeon meets Dr. Underwood and enters hospital tent. Soldiers empty mud with cardboard boxes. Men roll a log up and down the strip to level it.
Men remove Captain James Green from a helicopter, put him on a stretcher and take him to a hospital in Shingbwiyang, Burma during World War II. Men push helicopter into a parking area and a plane takes off. A group of men look at a map. Men turn propellers of airplane. Men clean glass on the cockpit and a machine gun. Lieutenant Raymond Murdock enters a helicopter and leaves for a mission.
British Royal Air Force Lancaster bomber aircraft drop bombs over German targets during World War II. Bombs impact causing a pillar of smoke to rise up. United States Army Air Force 8th and 15th Air Force using B-17 bombers attack the industrial town of Pforzeheim at night. British Lancaster bomber aircraft also assist the American forces, destroying the city completely.
Troops of the U.S. 29th Infantry Division cross a floating footbridge erected by U.S. Army engineers across the Ruhr river at Linnich, Germany, during World War 2. Their mission is to capture the fortress town of Jülich. They hurry across the bridge under enemy fire. Major General Charles Gerhardt, Commander of the 29th Infantry, crosses the footbridge along with his troops. Troops enter the city, which has been destroyed by prior Allied bombing, and flush out remaining German snipers from basements of ruined buildings. Soldier seen firing into a basement. Remains of footbridge across the Ruhr river, destroyed by Germans during the night. Combat engineers work building a new heavy pontoon bridge across the river. A German soldier (narrator states: in an American uniform) carrying a white flag, walks towards U.S. soldiers on the opposite bank of the river, and is shot by one of them. U.S. troops cross the new heavier bridge across the river. A U.S. tank that had crossed the river, is seen. A banner is seen, fastened above a stone arch, reading: "This is Julich Germany. Sorry it is so messed up. But we were in a hurry! 29th (Blue & Grey) Div." The Division insignia appears on the banner.
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