Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair visits the Twentieth Army Headquarters area. General McNair arrives escorted by other officers at the headquarters and visits various tents in the area. He talks with other officers.
Naples Italy during World War II. 8" Howitzer under cover of trees, firing at a target. U.S. Army soldiers talk on field radio phone and receive directions from a liaison plane. Soldier read maps and plot coordinates for firing of howitzer. American soldiers look through sights of the Howitzer and adjust controls. View through howitzer barrel shows rifling inside. View of liaison planes parked in a field.
Japanese Americans lower the United States flag at Poston War Relocation Center (internment camp) in Arizona, during World War II. They fold the flag carefully. Armored vehicles during a military parade consist of Japanese soldiers. Nisei (second generation Japanese American) soldiers train at military base for combat operations. Soldiers practice obstacle passing in swamps and in bog.
Camera pans over a closeup of British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival who was captured in the fall of Singapore. American Lieutenant-general Jonathan Wainwright, smoking the stub of a cigar, as he sits with U.S.Major General Edward P. King, Jr. (Both were imprisoned in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.) A naval officer POW posing in front of a tree. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, in pith helmet, smoking a cigarette. POWs eating and conversing with Japanese interpreters, (One POW appears to be U.S. Brigadier General George F. Moore, who was imprisoned along with Wainright and King, in the Philippines.) View of POWs in a library, where one is reading from a script, while being recorded. Other POWs looking at documents.
Surface to surface A-4/V-2 missile of Germany being launched from Test Stand VII arena at Peenemunde in Germany, during World War 2. After being fired, the white and black missile moves upwards towards the sky above the water.
Numerous clips of German gun camera footage from Focke Wulf FW-190 fighters attacking formations of United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-17 bombers, of the 8th Air Force, engaged in high altitude daylight bombing missions.
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