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U.S. Joint Strategic Target Planning staff pose for a group photo with Secretary Robert McNamara in Nebraska,United States.
U.S. Joint Strategic Target Planning staff meets to discuss Project Guard Rail at SAC (Strategic Air Command) headquarters in Nebraska, United States. Ramp rolls up to an aircraft at Offutt Air Force Base as U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell L Gilpatric and General Lemnitzer alight. The officials get in staff cars and drive away. U.S. Joint Strategic Target Planning staff gathered in the SAC's operations map room for a group picture. The officers include Commandant of U.S. Marine Corps General David M Shoup, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral George W Anderson, Chief of U.S. Army General Lemnitzer, Secretary McNamara, Deputy Secretary Gilpatric, U.S. Army General George H Decker, Chief of Staff and Chief of U.S. Air Force General Curtis LeMay, Commander-in-Chief of the North American Air Defense General Lawrence S Kuter, Admiral Harry D Felt Commander of Pacific Command, General Thomas S Power, Admiral R L Dennison Commander of the Atlantic Command, Air Deputy to Supreme Allied Commander General Samuel E Anderson, Commander of Naval Forces in Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Admiral Harold P Smith, Commander of USS TRICOM General Paul De Witt Adams, U.S. Army Commander of the Caribbean region Lieutenant General Andrew P O'Mera.
General Henry (Hap) Arnold reports to the nation on status of U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II
General Henry H. Arnold, Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces, seated in front of world map, reports that since start of World War 2, the U.S. Air Force has gone from number 7, to number 1, in the world. Defense plant workers are shown walking near their place of work. A college football game shown in progress. Individual young men who left civilian life to became pilots, bombardiers, radio technicians, and gunners, in the Air Forces. A commercial DC-3 aircraft taxing to park at an airport. Shown are people who make the Air Forces possible, including many men and women workers at factories and manufacturing plants making aircraft and parts for the World War 2 effort: Steel workers, a woman working on a plane fuselage, actor James Stewart (in uniform), a welder at work, a typist, a machinist using a caliper, and an older couple at home, who forgoe driving their private car, shown covered in their garage. The flaming wreckage of U.S. aircraft at Hickam Field, on December 7, 1941. Large formation of German Heinkel He-111 bombers in flight. Formation of Japanese Mitsubishi G3M (Nell) bombers. U.S. P-40 pursuit planes taxiing out from parking places. Assembly line in U.S. aircraft manufacturing plant. U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress planes on assembly lines. Workmen work on engines and aircraft fuselages. At the Douglas plant U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder bombers being assembled. Workmen inserting machine guns into a wing.
Invasion of Corregidor by U.S. 503rd Air Regiment and 24th Division during World War II.
Battle of Corregidor fought between U.S. troops and Japanese troops in Corregidor, Luzon Island, Philipinnes during World War II. Japanese troops lower the U.S. flag and raise the Japanese flag after the fall of Corregidor in 1942. U.S. troops in Japanese prison camps. Invasion of Corregidor on February 16, 1945 by U.S. 503rd Air Regiment and 24th Division. A U.S. convoy underway at sea. U.S. naval battleships attack shore targets. Planes take off from an airfield. U.S. 503rd Air Regiment dropped by parachutes. Paratroopers land in Corregidor. U.S. 24th Division comes ashore in amphibious vehicles, troops land and fight their way inland.
Japanese air attack over U.S. naval air station in Kaneohe Bay, Honolulu during Pearl Harbor Raid of World War II.
A film dramatizes the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii during World War II. A formation of Japanese bombers drop bombs on Wheeler Army Airfield in Honolulu during Pearl Harbor attack. The bombs explode on parked U.S. aircraft and army installations on the airfield. Smoke billows up from the explosions. U.S. soldiers fire machine guns towards the Japanese bombers. U.S. pilots start to board aircraft. Japanese air attack on U.S. naval air station at Kaneohe Bay, Honolulu. Bombs explode. The bombs start to explode around U.S. sailors attending a church services. U.S. troops fire guns toward Japanese aircraft. They run around on the air field while Japanese aircraft continue attacks. U.S. pilots board the aircraft. Hangers in flames. U.S. soldiers remove bombs mounted under the wing of an aircraft.
Naval battle, and U.S. 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions advance on enemy positions on Saipan and Tinian in the Mariana Islands.
U.S. forces battle against the Japanese on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. Animated map shows United States forces landing on Saipan. The map displays the position of a Japanese fleet and U.S. Task Force 58. View of Japanese ships being bombed and attacked by aircraft from U.S. Navy 5th fleet ships. A damaged U.S. fighter aircraft lands on an aircraft carrer ship deck at dusk with only its right landing wheel functional. It grinds to a halt without proper landing gear. Dramatic night views of battle as Japanese aircraft attack U.S. Navy warships. Sky filled with barrage of anti aircraft fire. Two Japanese aircraft are hit and are seen in flames as they crash in the sea. U.S. Marine 2nd and 4th division along with U.S. Army 27th Infantry Divisions advance on the island. Marines load and fire guns at the enemy on Saipan island. Firing on Tinian Island also begins. Transports of northern task force arrive for resupply. Animated map shows the territory acquired by U.S. forces.
B-25 bomb at Brest, Canadian troops advance, civilians buy goods and U.S. soldiers secure voting cards in France (WW2)
Normal life of civilians resume after German surrender in some parts of France during World War II. Aerial view of flak in sky. Close-up view of two U.S. Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft in flight. (Narrator incorrectly states they are British Lancaster bomber aircraft.) View from bomb bay doors of bombs away shot as the B-25 bomber aircraft drop bombs on U-boat pens at Brest. Explosions and smoke rise. The aircraft drop bombs over ground installation over enemy area. Canadian soldier scenes: Troops advance through a burning coastal town in France. Buildings collapsing and gunfire in streets. Smoke rising. Ruins of destroyed French town are seen. Allied Army tanks advance and fire artillery. German prisoners of war from Wehrmacht 7th and 15th armies being marched under watch by Canadian forces. Among the German prisoners is a 13 year old Russian boy who was forced to work by the Nazis. German prisoners in a soup line and seen drinking from mugs. Some appear to be very young boy soldiers. U.S. Army soldiers in Le Mans: American soldiers are welcomed by civilians of France. Happy French civilians waving to U.S. forces including a happy young woman who runs forward and pats a U.S. Army tank with her hand. Men and women collaborationists who assisted the Germans are rounded up by French and marched away. U.S. Army soldiers seated at stools in a French bar drink as the bar maid pours more into their glasses. French civilians line up at shops and groceries to buy food and goods in Le Mans. Pictures of General De Gaulle for sale. American women in U.S. Army uniforms (possibly nurses or Womens Army Corps WAC members) look in shop windows at French fashions. Voting cards: U.S. Army troops read pamphlets that read "requirement of soldiers to vote" and "Soldiers Voting". The U.S. Army GI's receive and mail postcards to their homes requesting absentee voting ballots for the upcoming November 1944 election. The soldiers line up to secure their application cards for absentee ballots.
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