U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower disembarks from a beach landing craft and gets into a Jeep on the beach with Admiral Hewitt during World War II. The Jeep is driven away. They arrive at the 5th Army headquarters area and meet with Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark and Major General Alfred M. Gruenther for strategy discussions. Military photographers and other troops are gathered around the commanders as they greet.
A B-25C Mitchell bomber landing on an allied airfield in Salerno Italy during World War 2. With landing gear broken from flak, the plane makes a ground loop and crashes during landing. Other vehicles seen parked near the airfield while smoke covers the plane and the airfield. Two U.S. Army personnel standing away from the airfield observing the accident.
British soldiers landing in Salerno, Italy. Views of soldiers getting out from the LCI landing craft on the shores. Soldiers preparing beachheads while several army trucks moving nearby. Explosions in distance and soldiers run for cover of ditches. Semaphore signal man completes signals and takes cover. Soldiers place smoke pots to screen landing operations from German planes. Three landing crafts standing at the shores and soldiers and tanks emerge from them. Soldiers affix steel mats into sand using pegs, as bulldozer flattens ground. Soldiers board the vehicles and move ahead. (World War II period).
Bombing of Rekata bay (near Munda and Guadalcanal in the South Pacific) during August 24th 1943. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers of the 13th Army Air Forces in flight at a high altitude over the bay. Bombers drop bombs on Japanese targets at Rekata bay. (World War II period).
Aerial views of the Capadichino Airdrome near Naples, Italy. U.S. 12th Army Air Force 32nd Bombardment Squadron starts bombing over the airdrome. Bombs seen headed toward ground. Smoke rising from the airstrip. Bombing targets German aircraft in a camouflaged area beside the airdrome. (World War II period).
A Ford promotional film for employees to encourage employee suggestions. Views of a suggestion box hanging on the wall, a Ford Custom car driven at highway, captions on the box and auto workers dropping suggestions in the box. The company newspaper editions and Suggestion Payments headline on the bulletin board and an employee sitting at a desk and reading the newspaper editions. Same man working with drafts. Sequence shows current machine workings, submission of suggestion by employee, and then same process using revised methodology. People dropping suggestions in the box. Workers engage in assembling new Ford cars. Hoods being affixed to cars on assembly lines in automotive plant. The new Ford Custom car visible on the road. A family gets in the new car and drives away. Two men working on drafts and discussing. Aerial views of Ford River Rouge plant. Smoke rising from the chimneys of the factory. Caption of Ford logo visible at the end.
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