Opening slate reads, “Sensational War Films YAMAMOTO SHOT DOWN! South Pacific”. Image of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, in full navy regalia. Another image of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, in black navy uniform. United States soldiers riding a military jeep wave at the camera as their jeep drives in Guadalcanal Island during World War II. United States Army Air Force airmen are posing in front of a fighter for a camera. Airmen shake hands with each other. Airmen are talking to each other, with a fighter behind them. Three airmen laugh facing the camera. The camera pans to identify the airmen Lieutenant Besby Holmes, Captain Tom Lanphier and Lieutenant Rex T. Barber. A radio operator tapping out morse code on radio equipment. Japanese airmen receiving orders. A Japanese bomber with engines running. United States airmen run to their fighters. Airmen working on an engine and fueling aircraft to prepare for a mission. Airmen sitting on a bench listening to an officer pointing to a board. The officer, in sunglasses, points to a map titled “Target for Today”. Closeup of map, “Target for Today.” United States soldier smokes a cigarette.
During World War II, Major John W. Mitchell (339th Fighter Squadron) is seated in the cockpit, the cockpit canopy opened. Smiling briefly, Mitchell puts on and adjusts his helmet with goggles. Mitchell closes the cockpit canopy. Another United States Army Air Force pilot of the 339th Fighter Squadron is seated and gives a thumbs-up at the camera. The pilot smiles and adjusts his helmet before closing the cockpit canopy. Another pilot adjusts his helmet as he smiles to the camera and closes the cockpit canopy. Pilots smiling at the camera before adjusting their helmets and closing their cockpit canopies. These are the 339th Fighter Squadron Pilots who intercepted and shot down Imperial Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. View of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
A group of United States Army Air Force pilots belonging to the 339th Fighter Squadron, who intercepted and shot down Imperial Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, walk together beside a Lockheed P-38 Lightning during World War 2. They sit together near the aircraft and discuss with a map. The commander, Major John Mitchell, holding the map points straight to his comrades before pointing something on the map. On his right are Lieutenants Besby Holmes and Rex Barber. To the left of Major Mitchell is Captain Tom Lanphier. The pilots are standing again near the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, discussing together. Major John W. Mitchell, wearing helmet and goggles, poses and smiles while holding a propeller’s blade.
Arrival of Nazi military vehicles with soldiers in Warsaw after its capture by Germany during World War 2. German soldiers patrol the besieged streets of Warsaw as citizens watch. Destroyed city blocks in smoke after German bombing. A bomb crater in middle of destroyed city blocks in Warsaw after German bombing. Woman cries over dead relative as gravedigger digs a grave in Warsaw cemetery. Graves in Warsaw cemetery. View of the highest Polish military decoration, the Virtuti Militari. Coat of arms of Warsaw. Warsaw Castle Square (plac Zamkowy01-195 Warszawa, Poland), with Baroque column of Polish King Sigismund III Vasa, in ruins after being shelled, burned and looted by German forces. Graffiti in Polish. Polish resistance fighter crawling in underground tunnel. Collection of guns and grenades. Polish resistance documents and pistol. Man prepares printing press. Man prints more Polish resistance leaflets. Polish resistance fighter proofreads a document. Printing press prints more leaflets. Piles of leaflets. Man carefully wrap reams of leaflets. Polish men walking in Warsaw street. German document announcing daily execution of Poles in Lublin. Two Polish men glues a resistance leaflet in wall. Polish man writes “pawiak pomścimy” (“We will avenge Pawiak” in Polish) on the wall. Man paints graffiti saying “Verloren” (“Lost” in German). Wall displays anti-Nazi graffiti speech and symbols such as “HYCLER”, a hanged Swastika in gallows, a turtle, and the “PW” Kotwica emblem of the Polish Underground State. Writing on the ground says “Polska Walcząca” (“Fighting Poland” in Polish).
Destroyed city blocks and rubble in Warsaw ghetto during World War 2. A man writes “WAWER” on pavement as reference to the 1939 massacre of 107 Polish civilians by German forces in Wawer, near Warsaw. Women leave flowers on pavement to commemorate victims in Wawer. Pavement Polish graffiti with the symbol of the PW Polish Underground State. Polish men play with a cartoon Adolf Hitler paper marionette puppet hung on a wall. Polish men hoist cartoon Adolf Hitler puppet in effigy up a lamppost. Bottom of streetlamp with graffiti words written in German.
Mechanized smoke screen surrounds the harbor of Palermo, Italy during World War 2. Thick smoke screen, provided by the 69th and 78th Chemical Smoke Generator Companies of the United States Army, covers the view of Palermo old town, the Gulf of Mondello, and the nearby Palermo mountain range.
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