Preview of pre-invasion maneuvers in Great Britain during World War II, less than 2 months before the D-Day invasion of France by Allied forces. Men accumulate tons of supplies and motor cars are lined up. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marshal of the Royal air Force Arthur William Tedder and British Army Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery view the tons of supplies which have been accumulated. Photographers take photos. They join the troops who engage in mass maneuvers. View of a British soldier loading and firing a British spigot mortar type 35 pound anti tank PIAT gun (Projector, Infantry, Anti tank), new machine guns spit into action from tanks and masses of tanks give off salvos of artillery fire. A huge formations of transport planes in flight as hundreds of paratroopers descend on ground.
Allied drive towards Rome after the capture of Monte Casino during the end of World War II. Ruins of Cassino crushed by Allied war machines. Artillery shelled walls of Monte Cassino. Enemy mines and booby traps. Commanding officer of British, American and French army including British Army Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, U.S. Army General Mark W. Clark and Juin et al plan for the drive on Rome. Army tanks drive. Smoke rises. German prisoners are being taken.
Allies capture Nazi secret weapons in Anzio, Italy during World War II. American troops examine a German "death wagon" sitting on a flat bed truck. It is radio controlled and designed to carry a thousand pounds of explosive. Another scene shows a German Neger human-guided torpedo driven ashore. It had been manned by a 17 year old German sailor, who is seen being interrogated. U.S. troops chain the torpedo to a boat and activate its propeller, in the surf.
U.S. Navy's fleet task force under Japanese air attack in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Ship underway at sea. Japanese prisoner is transferred on stretcher. Japanese prisoners pose on deck. Men handcuff the prisoner's wrist.
U.S. Navy's fleet task force under Japanese air attack in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Ship underway at sea, flak in sky during battle. A doctor operates on a wounded sailor or soldier aboard a ship. Task force personnel standing near around the patient. Task force crew handle line on ship. CBs (Large Cruiser) underway during air attack.
USS Yorktown underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Showing heavy flak bursting near the water as USS Yorktown underway at sea. U.S. navy Douglas SBDs Dauntless aircraft taxi forward on flight deck as plane handlers guide and control aboard the aircraft carrier.
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