German counter attack in Battle of the Bulge, in world War 2. U.S. Army Sherman tank crews load artillery shells and fire from wooded positions. U.S. artillery crews load shells and fire heavy guns under camouflage nets. Scene changes to German forces: German infantry advancing past knocked out U.S. artillery piece and Sherman tank. A Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer rolls by behind the soldiers and the wreckage of tanks from recent battle. German SS Tiger II tank advances, followed by a Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer with several German soldiers in and on top of it. Grille Ausf. M self-propelled artillery gun fires. German infantry and trucks with German soldiers enter a village. British RAF Hawker Typhoon aircraft dive and fire rockets at German ground targets. U.S. forces fire artillery and regroup in a forest. U.S. troops move through water and mud in a town. U.S. Army soldiers carry wounded on stretchers. British troops escort German prisoners of war in a town. U.S. Army trucks move through deep water flooding the main street of a small town. An American soldier places his foot on edge of a bin and water pours out of his boot. American soldiers take a chow break to eat.
Allied forces advance through mud and snow in Italy. Mountains in the background. Jeeps, trucks and infantry enter Ravenna in Italy. Allied troops in automobiles. Troops on streets. Buildings in the background. Flags on a building. A sign reads 'Tirana'. Several people on streets. Partisan troops enter and liberate Tirana in Albania. A wrecked building in view. Albanian people carry banners and flags and march on streets celebrating. Albanian partisan solders and soldiers of the National Liberation Army march and participate in the parade. Albanian soldiers and politicians watch from a grandstand, including communist leader Enver Hoxha who is briefly seen addressing the crowd. A low-flying aircraft in flight above the liberation celebration.
Bombing in Tokyo. U.S. aircrafts stand on an air base. Automobiles on the ground. U.S. Soldier writes 'Only the beginning' on a bomb. U.S. pilots briefed by an officer. Pilots confer near an aircraft. The pilots climb in B-29 bomber aircraft. Planes taxi and take off. They fly through heavy flak. Animated maps show the planes flying over and bombing on Tokyo. Aerial view of Tokyo. Smoke rises up due to explosions. Planes in flight. (World War II period).
Camps seen at ground in Japan. An aircraft in flight. Trees in the background. An aircraft catches fire and falls on ground. Black smoke rises up. A jeep stands near it at night. Men extinguish fire by throwing water at the burning wreckage. Men stand near it. United States bomber aircraft B-29 Super fortress takes off. Men stand at a hilly terrain. U.S. aircraft B-29 aircraft in flight. (World War II period).
Allied strategic Conferences in World War 2. Opening scene shows Château Frontenac. Then President Franklin Roosevelt seated with Canada Prime Minister, McKensie King, and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Scene shifts to their respective military staffs conferring at a table. Next scene shows the Russian Embassy in Tehran, Iran, with the Big Three (Joseph Stalin, FDR, and Churchill) seated on the portico, and their top ranking military officers standing behind them. Soviet Marshal Kliment Voroshilov stands behind Stalin. American officers are seen in next scene, including General George Marshall, Admiral Ernest King (lighting a cigarette) and General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, W. Averell Harriman, stands behind King and Arnold. Closeup of Churchill. Shift to an animated map of Europe. It illustrates the massive fortifications put in place by the Nazis along the coast of occupied Europe. Camera pans across heavy German coastal guns, Pill Boxes, and shore obstacles in place on the beaches. Marshal Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel leads a group of German officers on an inspection tour of the "Atlantic Wall" defenses. Closeup of Rommel. British Bristol Blenheim bombers en route to attack targets in the German occupied areas. Views of Allied airmen inside cockpit of their bomber aircraft. A flight of five German fighters (appear to be Bf-109s) peeling off to attack an Allied bomber. View inside bomber of American gunner in bomber firing machine gun at attacking German fighter. Head on view of German Focke Wulf FW-190 fighter heading straight toward the camera, and point of view from gun camera as German aircraft zooms up over it. Gunner in bomber firing. An aircraft exploding inflight. View inside Allied bomber, through cracked windshield, of aircraft in a formation of U.S. Martin B-26 Marauder bombers. Next shot is rearward from bomb bay showing bombs away view as bombs are released from a B-26. Scene shifts to aerial view from rear of a U.S. B-17 bomber dropping bombs. View of the bombs striking a railroad marshaling yard. Another view of a B-26 bomber in flight.
Japanese planes attack USS Princeton and USS Langley in Pacific Theater. Smoke rises from USS Princeton. Japanese planes in flight above water. The planes drop bombs near USS Langley. Plane crashes in water. Japanese planes dive midst flak. Planes dive on light aircraft carriers (CVL). (World War II period).
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