U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) underway in the South China Sea. Taiwan General Chiang Kai-Shek visits the USS Wasp. U.S. helicopter HO3S Dragonfly lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier. Lieutenant General Chiang Kai-Shek, son Chiang Ching-Kuo, and United States Ambassador to the Republic of China Karl L. Rankin disembark from the helicopter. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek is greeted by officers. He shakes hands with United States high-ranking officers. U.S. Marines salute as he passes by.
Clark Field, Manila, the Philippines, during World War 2. U.S. mechanics work on a Japanese Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bomber, painted in U.S. markings by the U.S. Army Air Forces Technical Air Intelligence Unit for the South West Pacific Area (TAIU-SWPA)
Women's Army Corps in the United States. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, created in 1942 is converted to WAC (Women's Army Corps) in 1943. A WAC carries a cake. 'WAAC' written on the cake. A WAC walks outside a building. Several men stand and talk. The WACs parade on a field. A United States flag. Duties performed by WACs. Women work as mechanics and handle complicated equipment. They take photographs through cameras. The U.S. Capitol building in view. U.S. Army General George Marshall and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Stimson. Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby is the first commanding officer of WAC. A dramatization depicts recruitment and induction of WAACs. A sign reads 'WAAC, information and recruiting'. A woman appears in an interview. The women undergo physical examination and are then recruited. WAACs undergo a training. They perform physical exercises and swim. Several WACs go to specialization classes. WACs cook food. A woman receives an award for her husband's bravery during World War II.
Scenes from December 18th 1944,during World War 2. German soldiers of Kampfgruppe Max Hansen, a temporary battle group formed during the Battle of the Bulge (from SS-Panzergrenadierdivision Regiment 2, an infantry regiment of SS Pz Rgt 2 "Das Reich") advance towards Poteau road junction past burning half tracks and Jeeps of U.S. 14th Cavalry group. One man is armed with a Stg44 assault rifle. Cut to squad leader signals advance, in the “wrong direction”. i.e Away from the Poteau junction and back along the road to Recht. Scene shifts to to smoke covered roadway. Germans attempt to start a captured jeep in field. It faces towards right, away from the front lines. An M8 armoured car burns. PK photographer and officer walk past camera, towards the right. Scene cuts to Pz Grenadiers walk away from camera towards the Poteau junction. Smoke covers the road. A Jagspanzer IV/70 comes into view and enters the field after the grenadiers have passed. Cut to grenadiers as they walk along the edge of the roadside ditch, past a burning jeep. Cuts to grenadier crawling under barbed wire fence at roadside, first man, with bandaged hand gets caught on the wire by his greatcoat! Second shot of grenadiers running away from camera in direction of Poteau through the smoke of the burning U.S. vehicles. PK photographer moves into frame before. Cuts to Panzergrenadiers moving towards the cameraman past the vehicles. Half tracks and jeeps loaded with personal equipment baggage. Further shots of the burning vehicles. Filmed looking in the direction of Recht (this is the direction the U.S. convoy was heading when it was attacked).
United States Air Corps Demonstrations at Command Schools in United States. Flight line at Langley Air Force base in Bvirginia, United States. Aircraft stand stationary on Langley field. Us Army Air Corps Squadron of Curtiss P-1 Hawk taxis. Four Curtiss P-1 Hawk with smoke nozzles protruding from fuselage. Planes in flight in formation. Us Army Air Corps Curtiss A-3 Falcon attack planes and Curtiss P-1 Hawk pursuit planes lined up on a field. U.S. Brigadier General Benjamin Foulois, Major Carl Spaatz and other officers stand and talk in a group.
U.S. Coast Guard activities in the Atlantic Ocean. A Coast Guard cutter underway in heavy seas. Turbulent waters.The U.S. flag and Red Cross flag hoisted on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Cayuga.Officers and crew seated on deck under awning. Officers and Petty Officers are dressed in blue and sailors in white.A clergyman conducts religious services and leads in the singing of a hymn. A cross in front of the seating area. A few persons sit on one side of the deck. Coast Guardsmen in lifevests enter a lifeboat on davit.The lifeboat lowers away, and the crew disconnect lowering blocks and lines, and proceed to row away from the cutter.
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