U.S. Naval officers on bridge of the American Attack Transport Ship, USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) en route to North Africa during Operation Torch (Allied invasion of North Africa) during World War 2. Officers make observations of sun with instruments to confirm ship position. A destroyer in the background. Views of convoy including destroyers, supply ships, and barrage balloons. U.S. Submarine Chaser, PC 557 comes close to port side of the Samuel Chase, and then pulls away at high speed. View of crowded deck of the USS Samuel Chase.
Amphibian assault on Oran, Morocco, during Operation Torch, in World War 2. U.S. troops descend rope ladders from Troop ships and enter assault boats. Major General Terry Allen, (Terry de la Mesa Allen, Sr.) Commander of the U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division, descends rope ladder, followed by his Deputy, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. A Colonel follows them. Views from inside the assault boat carrying them and other officers and soldiers, including some Military Policemen. View from that boat, of troops entering assault boats from a large Attack Transport Ship (APA). A jeep being lowered from the APA to a boat. The assault boat carrying First Infantry Division Commander and staff reaches the beach in Oran, and discharges them onto the beach. There is no opposing force evident.
The Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. Japanese attempts a final counterattack on the last day in Okinawa. A 300 men Japanese Army led by Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi launches a final counterattack in the vicinity of an airfield. The army attacks a U.S. Army camp. Japanese soldiers die. U.S. Marine Corps evacuate the dead bodies. Casualties after the war.
U.S. Army General Lutz Wahl receives the armistice news in France at the end of World War I. Gen. Wahl receives the armistice signed in a railroad car parked in a French forest near the front lines. General Wahl reads the armistice as the troops gather around him, smiling. Close up view of the signed armistice notification received from U.S. 2nd Army Headquarters.
Troops in a unit of the 64th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division of of the U.S. Army celebrate in France at the end of World War I. U.S. troops wait to hear the news of the Armistice. An officer receives a dispatch announcing the armistice and rushes to a camp. The troops gather to read about the armistice. Soldiers celebrate.. They jump and throw their caps in celebration. Soldiers read the armistice dispatch, one by one. The American troops greet local French farmers and pose with them. Back at their campsite, the troops relax. A small mascot dog is seen with them.
AFL President Samuel Gompers along with Hugh Frayne, General Organizer of the American Federation of Labor, and AFL Secretary Frank Morrison. The three men seen shaking hands and posing for cameras. Views of parade in Buffalo. Gompers rides in a car during the Parade convention. President Wilson, in attendance for the parade in Buffalo, enters building along with the First Lady, Mrs. Wilson. U.S. Army troops in formation enter building. President Wilson and Mrs Wilson depart in a car. Cars in parade with U.S. Army soldiers marching beside.
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