8th Air Force Replacement Center in Stafford, England. Women's Army Corps (WAC) walking in queue with eating utensils. One of the WAC member seen with bugler as others entering in the mess. Various messages stenciled on backs of some of the women's uniforms, including, "Top Kick Lets Go On the Double" and "I dood it". WAC women serving themselves and eating at the tables. Three WAC women cleaning the mess utensils in the garden while one is seen at the window. One at the window talking with the other in the ground and polishing a shoe. WAC marching towards the air force base in uniforms while band is seen in the background. WAC enters the ground and band players are also seen. WAC salutes the senior officers.
Arrival of 5th division infantry in Gourock, Scotland during World War II. Excited infantrymen aboard a Navy tender wave to the people standing at the shore. Infantrymen walk with barrack bags, carrying on their shoulders. Men with bags walk on the stairs and disembark from the troop carrier ship.
American 5th division infantry in Gourock, Scotland. U.S. Army Infantry soldiers with barrack bags walk towards the waiting railroad trains at train station. View of men leaving the harbor and army vehicles in the background. Infantrymen walk toward the baggage cars. Enlisted men throw bags in the cars, while several soldiers get into the train. Women serve beverages to the people in the train. People look out of the train and wave as the train leaves the station.
View of B-25 bombers flying towards Colletta and bombing the roadways there to stop the advance of the German 16th Panzer division toward allied landing parties on the Salerno beach. Bombers dropping bombs over targets below. Destroyed airstrip areas and smoke rising from the targets below. (World War II period).
A B-25C Mitchell bomber landing on an allied airfield in Salerno Italy during World War 2. With landing gear broken from flak, the plane makes a ground loop and crashes during landing. Other vehicles seen parked near the airfield while smoke covers the plane and the airfield. Two U.S. Army personnel standing away from the airfield observing the accident.
Aerial views of Operation Tidal Wave, an air attack by B-24 heavy bombers of the United States Army Air Forces on oil refineries around Ploiesti or Ploesti, Romania. during World War II. The 98th and 376th Bomb Groups of 9th Air force and 44th, 93rd, and 389th Bomb Groups of 8th Air Force took part.. Fifty-three aircraft and 660 aircrew were lost in this raid. Views of bombers dropping bombs over the oil refineries,factories,railroad yards and oil fields. Aerial views of destroyed Ploesti oil fields and of the planes climbing out and leaving the area.
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