The office of U.S. Army Chief of Staff in the United States during World War II. U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall seated at a desk. Deputy Chief of Staff Major General Byrden seated along with them. They discuss a map. An officer arrives and hands over a document to General Marshall. He sits at the desk. The officers discussing.
A railroad train carrying a U.S. Navy 14-inch railway gun, on a Mk I gun car, along with other cars containing associated personnel,supplies and equipment, arriving at a depot in France, during World 1. Most of the cars are marked "USN." In next scene, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, stands in a field with two U.S. Navy Captains and U.S. Army Major General Henry T. Allen, along with two other Army officers. General Allen escorts Roosevelt to the railway gun train, where he climbs aboard the rear access door of the Mk I car. An American flag flies over the car. Camera pans along the car to where Roosevelt is seen standing beneath the 14-inch gun barrel. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Shows scenes of the Battle of the Bulge near Bastogne, Belgium with U.S. troops of the 101st Airborne Infantry during World War II. An officer seated at a desk and speaking about the invasion. U.S. Army soldiers on a battlefield in Bastogne. Troops move out of a mobilization area. Soldiers look at war equipment and material. The soldiers holding rifles and other equipment. The soldiers aboard trucks. A truck convoy passing on a street at night. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment. The soldiers advancing across a field. Buildings in an area. A sign board reads 'Bastogne'. A snow covered area. Soldiers huddle in blankets sitting on snow covered ground. The soldiers firing rifles and bazooka at German positions. A machine gun emplacement in the snow. Frozen bodies of dead American soldiers are removed by U.S. Army soldiers. Bomb damaged buildings in the area. The soldiers firing machine guns and rifles. Smoke from explosions. Night time artillery barrage including rocket launchers firing toward enemy German positions.
Film titled 'The Air Weather Service of the USAF.' Clouds in the sky. Aerial view of a flooded area. U.S. F-4 phantom fighter airplane lands using drag chute. F-100 aircraft refueling from a KB-29P tanker aircraft. C-130 aircraft dropping paratroops. Flight of 4 F-4 aircraft in formation. A B-52 bomber in flight. A rocket climbing after launch. A helicopter hovering over a river. Briefing underway with Air Force personnel of Air Weather Service of the Military Airlift Command. Various means of gathering weather data all over the world about temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed and visibility. Data collection devices shown at various airfields or air bases. Radars in operation. A Military Airlift Command Weather Service C-135 airborne, collecting weather aloft. Arctic weather station. Aircrews getting weather briefings from Air Weather Service meteorologists. Headquarters of U.S. Air Force Japan, 5th Air Force.
View from hill, above, of U.S. Army troops, from the 3rd Battalion, 115th Regiment, 29th Division, who have set up a field kitchen and mess along the side of a road (Nieuwenhagerweg) in Eygelshoven, the Netherlands, during World War II. Closeup of the troops in a chow line, receiving food in their personal mess kits. Closeup of one soldier's mess kit with his ration. Closeups of smiling soldiers and views of some eating their meals. [Note: In the first 10 seconds, two churches can be seen in opposite corners of the background.The oldest, on the right, sheltered US soldiers. The other, on the left, was hit by German shelling around December 20, 1944. U.S. soldiers of the 562nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, Automatic Weapons (Mobile), Battery D, patched the hole in the church roof.]
U.S. soldiers in Pisa, Italy during World War II. A U.S. patrol in the outskirts of Pisa. Three U.S. soldiers walk down a street. One of them carries a full-size department store mannequin dummy at his side. The soldiers stop and eat rations. The Leaning Tower in the background. A soldier in the foreground guards the street.
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