African American Fighter Group of USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) in Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II. African American pilots of 332nd Fighter Group (Tuskegee Airmen) being briefed at a map by a USAAF officer in the background. Pilots listen to the officer. USAAF General Benjamin Davis with a pointer at the map. Crewmen attach a wing tank to a USAAF P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft parked on an airfield. The crewmen check the aircraft and load a wing gun. The pilots come out of the briefing room. They sit under the wing of the P-51. P-51s lined up with propellers turning. A P-51 taxis. P-51s take off.
An old French woman pushes a hand cart along a road beside Annecy airfield, France. during World War 2. German prisoners of war work removing stone from the airfield. American flyers, who escaped from internment in Switzerland, ride on a truck carrying them along the road behind the woman with her cart. They are dressed in civilian clothes. The German POWs look up as the truck drives past. One of the German prisoners is painting a signal device. The truck of American aviators pulls up to a C-47 transport airplane. They climb down. One of them wearing a German army cap, laughingly gives a Nazi salute, to the amusement of his companions. The Americans watch as a groups of German POWs march past. An officer speaks to the Americans. Meanwhile, German prisoners of war continue to walk past in the foreground, guarded by armed French soldiers. The repatriated flyers are briefed by pilots.
Japanese school boys at work in Omura, Japan. Boys' Grammar School shows the boys marching to work with precision, carrying their shovels on their shoulders. They tear down the school air raid shelter. The boys march again and repeat the action.
A United States invasion convoy off the coast of Licata for the invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. A PC (Coastal Patrol ship) dead in water. Landing crafts in the water near Licata beach. Shell bursts on a hill and in the sea. A signalman sends blinker signal from a destroyer. Stern wake of the DD (destroyer). A Light Cruiser underway.
A United States invasion convoy off the coast of Licata for the invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Smoke rises from shell bursts on a hill in the background. A landing craft underway. An LST (Landing Ship Tank) burns. A DD (destroyer) lays a smoke screen. A gun crew looks for enemy aircraft. Landing crafts and LCTs (Landing Craft Tank) underway. A sun set as seen from a ship.
A United States invasion convoy off the coast of Licata, Sicily during World War II. LCTs (Landing Craft Tank) and LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) underway in a choppy sea. A sailor at a signal light aboard a Navy ship sends a message to another ship.
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