The United States Navy battle fleet nicknamed 'Great White Fleet' that completed a circumnavigation of the globe, underway at sea in the North Atlantic Ocean. USS Minnesota, USS Virginia and USS Mississippi underway at sea. Crew members and life boats on the ships. The American flag flutters over a pole on USS Mississippi.
A United States base camp in the European Theater during World War II. Weapons and artillery camouflaged with sheets. Ammunition on a trolley.
In the opening scene, many German civilians (mostly women) are seen queued up outside the corner entrance to a building in a German city, where they receive something from a man (who appears to be a clergyman). A dog is with someone at the corner. A private Opel Blitz bus, with belongings on the roof covered by a tarpaulin, passes in front of the camera. It is pulling a trailer, also covered with a tarpaulin. Scene shifts to closeup of a young blond boy standing in front of apartment houses. He smiles and poses. Debris covers the area between the sidewalk and the apartment building. As the boy moves, some structural damage to the building in the background is seen. Two United States soldiers in a Jeep pass behind the boy. Next, a woman walks on a sidewalk. Behind her are destroyed buildings. Another view of destroyed buildings in the city. More views of several people walking in a street lined on its sides by rubble from bombed out buildings. Views from rear of a vehicle moving along street of a destroyed business district. More views of wartime destruction. People (mostly women) gathered in a backyard, read announcements posted on a large bulletin board.
United States 4th Battalion, 11th Marines aboard a ship near Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. Marines stand in a line without their shirts. An officer inspects their guns. The officer checks each rifle and hands it over to the Marine. A sunset view with a ship in the foreground.
United States destroyers underway at sea near Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. Lieutenant Colonel Fields, Commander Woolson and Lieutenant Colonel Deakin look at operation maps.
United States destroyers underway at sea near Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. A catholic Mass ceremony aboard a ship. A priest speaks into a microphone while United States Marine Corps listen carefully to him. Marines without shirts relax and converse with each other aboard the destroyer. A Marine reads a book while smoking a cigarette.
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