U.S. Marine demonstrate their new twin engine cargo helicopter in Virginia, United States. The helicopter hovers in air. The helicopter lands and marines on mechanized vehicles disembark the cargo helicopter. The marines in a jeep drive as they disembark the helicopter. The helicopter takes off.
U.S. Marine Commander of Wake Island, James Devereux returns from Japan in Washington DC. Paddy son of Commander James wait at a railroad station to greet his father. A close up of Paddy. James Devereux gets off the train. His son greets him. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, head of marine corps greets Devereux at the station. James Devereux with his son Paddy poses. Under Secretary of Navy Artemus L. Gates awards him the Navy Cross. Men in the background take pictures. Gates shakes hands with James Devereux. Paddy looks at him. Paddy shakes hands with his father.
Attack sleds designed for U.S. soldiers in Italy. Troops in prone position inside the sleds. An officer looks at the soldiers inside the sleds. He helps one of the soldiers to put his gun inside the sled. A small tank pulls the sleds through mine fields. The tank crashes through a tree and a stone wall while pulling the attack sleds. (World War II period).
Italian refugees from Anzio in Naples, Italy during World War II. Evacuees load their personnel belongings on a truck under the direction of U.S. and British Military Policemen. An Italian woman holds a small boy who has lost both legs. Other refugees near the woman holding the boy. Women seated under a shed of a building. A woman and a man stand in the foreground. Men eat food in the background. Young children standing in a group . A child with bandaged face. A woman holds a child and other children stand near her. The evacuees load their belongings on a truck.
U.S. 899th Field Artillery Battalion, 75th Division near Rheinberg in Germany during World War II. Barrels of 105mm howitzers in the foreground. The troops load shells and fire 105mm howitzers. A soldier working on the shells. Several views of the troops loading shells and firing. A soldier speaks over a radio. Another looks through an eyepiece. A soldier loading shells.
The Battle of Okinawa in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. U.S. Marine command post men lying flat on the ground. The Marines advance across an open field. A Marine advancing in the open field. Three Marines at a command post near the top of a ridge. A tank advancing in the background.
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