November 25, 1943 in the South Pacific during World War 2. Two P-38s of the 13th Army Air Force photographed in formation from a third airplane. Cumulus clouds in the background.The two P-38s peel off and dive. In another sequence, the P-38s join in close formation, peel off and maneuver at high speed in the distance, over water. Includes closeup views of individual P-38 aircraft and of multiple P-38 aircraft in formation.
November 25, 1943 13th Air Force, South Pacific,during World War 2. A flight of three P-38s in formation with cumulus clouds behind them. Two are being photographed from the third airplane. The lead P-38 demonstrates ability to improve performance for aerial combat, by jettisoning its long range 250 gallon drop tanks and accelerating ahead of the other aircraft.
Regimental Unit of Eighth United States Army during the Korean War. Trucks of a Regimental Unit passing along roads. Two officers looking field maps and conversing. Soldiers walk in line followed by army tanks on the road side. Tanks cross streams. Artillery and mortars seen firing on targets. Officers standing in front of maps and discussing tactics. View of General Matthew Ridgway consulting maps with other officers and then boarding a small airplane. Armored Task Force Team activities: One soldier technician stands near the radar at an army truck while others work inside the truck. Soldiers seen in a bunker, looking through a device that detects location of hostile fire. Soldiers place microphones in the ground, to detect enemy activity. They run cables away from the microphones. Two soldiers look at a paper and talk over radio, reporting information learned from the microphones. Soldiers release a hydrogen balloon carrying a radiosonde device for measuring atmospheric conditions, such as wind, humidity and pressure. Technician seated beside a radio receiving device recording weather readings.
Korean War in South Korea. 24th infantry division soldiers move equipment through water on a wooden raft. Soldiers push loaded rafts across the water. Soldiers build a bridge over a stream by hand laying large rocks on top of one another. Jeep crossing rock bridge in stream. Army vehicles moving on muddy, rutted roads. Army jeeps and trucks parked on road sides. An army truck passes along a road while soldiers carrying guns on shoulders walk by the sides of the road.
8th Cavalry Regiment in Chilgok, South Korea. Soldiers from the 8th Cavalry regiment sit and hide on the stream side. A M4 Sherman tank moves on the road and firing from one of its mounted machine guns. Soldiers move cautiously off the road as the tank moves on the road. A soldier without helmet walks over the rocks.
Opening scene shows American soldiers gathered around a C-47 transport plane on a desert field in Oran, Algeria during World War 2. They walk away en masse from the plane. Another C-47 is seen with tail number tail number 42-23507 (Records show this aircraft was delivered to Oran on May 20, 1943 and supported Operation Torch- The Italian Campaign of World War 2.) Scene shifts to interior of a C-47 rigged as an air evacuation aircraft, with wounded American soldiers in stacked bunks on both sides of the aircraft. A nurse and corpsmen are attending to the wounded. Two soldiers carry one of the wounded soldiers on a litter to the aircraft door. View from the outside of the soldier being carried by others to a waiting field ambulance. More views of the wounded being transferred from the plane to waiting ambulances. Scene shifts to ambulances parked on the desert field with a large Red Cross flag above them. A Curtiss P-40 fighter plane taxis past the camera. A large open field tent with a large Red Cross flag flying above it. Nurses and medical corpsmen tend to wounded soldiers lying in ambulances. A nurse serves water to some wounded.
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