At the end of World War 2, U.S. soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division carry wooden sculptures and paintings, including the "Adam and Eve" oil painting by Franz Floris from 1550, out of Nazi German Hermann Goering's art bunker in the Wemholz area, and load them into a truck. Men walk into a building. Sign reads: "Hermann Goering's Art Collection through the Courtesy of 101st Airborne Division" Scene shifts to Hotel Hubertus in Unterstein. Guard at the entrance. Walter Andreas Hofer, Goring's Art Director, shows Nazi stolen artwork to Sgt Harold A Way, including Baroque Dutch painter Franz Hals' Portrait of a Man, possibly Willem van Warmondt, Rubens' portrait of his wife, and stolen paintings by Anthony van Dyck and Nicolaes Maes. Room filled with paintings and statues. U.S. Army truck arrives at the building, men get out of the truck and enter the building. U.S. military personnel unload paintings and statues and triptych altar, from a train onto the trucks. Virgin Mary statue at open door of the freight car.
Gold and silver bars loaded onto U.S. 1st Cavalry Division trucks under supervision of U.S. soldiers. Basket full of coins comes out of an underground vault in Japan. The coins piled up. U.S. troops sort the coins in buckets and baskets. Coins are then weighed. (World War II period).
Wounded U.S. soldiers being treated during Italian campaign of World War 2. Ambulance arrives at a field hospital of the U.S. 3rd Battalion, 442nd Infantry, 34th Division. (Soldiers of the U.S. 442nd Regiment were almost entirely Americans of Japanese ancestry.) Ambulance stops in front of a hospital tent. Injured soldier on litter is removed from the ambulance. An army nurse prepares dressing for a wounded soldier. He lights a cigarette. Surgery performed inside the hospital tent. Wounded men on litters removed from ambulance and carried into tent. (Note: Opening slate showing the name, "Morang,." refers to Lt. Frank Morang, 196th Signal Photo Co.)
Troops from unit D/3/7 of the U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade, patrol streets in the Cholon district of Saigon, Vietnam. Local people go about ordinary activities. A man carrying a white flag containing a red cross, emerges from an alley, leading several others carrying a red coffin. A man on a Honda motor scooter drives past. A woman sits on the back of the scooter. A man rides past on a three wheel pedicab, with baggage loaded in passenger seat, as the funeral cortege enters the street. The U.S. Army patrol continues along a dirt road. Closeup of one of the soldiers with full field pack. Commander of the unit, 1st Lieutenant Jim Gentile, stops and gives directions, pointing with his hands. Seen next, in quick succession are Dewey Edwards (from the Baltimore MD area) and then Bob Cheatham, carrying an M79 grenade launcher and wearing a belt of ammunition over his shoulder. lieutenant Gentile on a radiophone, and then leading soldiers into a house. Infantryman Bob Cheatham and others searching the house for evidence of Viet Cong. Two soldiers comparing notes as they look over detailed maps. Soldiers walking in outdoor storage areas and past a group of Vietnamese working in a yard filled with large stone blocks. U.S. Soldiers in front of a French-style concrete house. (Vietnam War period).
Narrated feature on U.S. Army activities during the war in Korea. Focus on the United States Eigth Army. Newspaper cutting in background stating the involvement of UN Forces and U.S. Combat Team in war. 8th Army soldiers hold rifles and move forward. Narrator describes operation of the Army Combat Team starting with the Infantry, and supported by tanks, artillery, and aircraft. Various heavy artillery and tanks are also shown. Close up view of Soviet Russian soldiers marching in Red Square, Moscow, during a parade. U.S. Army soldiers are shown in battle in Korea, including in cold conditions on snow covered ground. Rapid sequence of images of various weaponry in action including flame throwers, M1 Garand rifle, Browning Automatic rifle, machine guns, bazookas, mortar (being fired by African American soldier), recoilless rifles.
Operation of a U.S. Army Combat Team from the Eighth United States Army (EUSA) during the Korean War. Infantry soldiers walk through rocky mountains carrying guns. Soldiers look through binoculars at observation posts and relay targeting information to artillery. U.S. Army artillery firing on enemy positions. Infantry dug in on a trench line. U.S. Army grasshopper observation aircraft in the sky scouting out target sites. Views of artillery being loaded, aimed, and fired, including by a group of African American soldiers. Tanks and infantry on the move together as an Armored Infantry Unit. Narrator discusses relationship between infantry troops and tanks and how they work together as a team. Mortar units aiming and firing. At an airfield, weapons are loaded onto planes including P-51 Mustang aircraft and jets. Planes being fueled. 5 inch rockets and 50 caliber machine guns are loaded, along with Napalm and demolition bombs. View of pilots in combat briefing and then exiting briefing to fly mission. P-51 Mustangs taking off from airfield. Mustang fighters in the air and views of Mustangs firing on enemy positions with guns and bombs. Air-Ground Liaison Team shown in a jeep on the ground providing targeting information to planes via radio.
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