U.S. 5th Army vehicles cross two small bridges across the Volturno River, near Mignano, Italy, during World War 2. An MP (Military Policeman) monitors and directs traffic from side of the muddy road. Army engineers repair another bridge and use compressed air gun to drive fasteners. Closeup of the new bridge boards and construction work. Jeeps, trucks, personnel carriers, and other vehicles are all on the move. A destroyed civilian vehicle is seen at side of road.
Cooks pull bun tray out from oven at Phan Rang Air Base in Vietnam. Cook puts food in oven. Food in mess gear. U.S. Air Force personnel sign at entrance of mess. They take food in mess trays. Mess tray of food. Cooks of U.S. Air Force serve food. (Vietnam War period).
Barrack bags of U.S. officers unloaded from B-17 at Atsugi Airdrome in Japan, soon after the end of World War 2. B-17 parked on runway. U.S. officers talk to Japanese officers alongside the B-17. Enlisted men load barracks bags on jeep. Jeep pulls out. Two Japanese soldiers go on bicycle. Steel structure of hangar in the background.
Japanese civilians and military watch American soldier using bulldozer to clear debris and begin reconstruction during American military occupation of Japan. Japanese soldiers and laborers working to clear the detritus of war and rebuild. Japanese businessman discussing reconstruction with an American military officer in his office. Signs in office reading: "Bid Room, P&C Div, Mr. P.E. Pagliocca." Japanese businessmen obtaining U.S. requests for bids on reconstruction projects. Bessemer Converter is charged and fired in Japanese steel plant. Hot steel Ingot is rolled out on cart. Hot ribbon of steel in placed into wire extrusion machine.
An amphibious vehicle (DUKW number 284) carrying U.S. wounded from Okinawa battlefield during World War 2. It ties up to a Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) aka Higgins boat, from the Attack Transport, USS Callaway (APA-35). Coast Guardsmen in the Higgins boat work with crew of the DUKW to transfer the wounded to their boat. The next sequence shows the Higgins boat tied up to the USS Callaway and wounded being tranported aboard on stretchers. The Callaway deck is fulled with troops and equipment, some of which is being moved by cranes, to a landing craft at her side. Another transport ship is seen in the background, and several U.S. Navy warships in the distance.
U.S. Officers seated at a planning table aboard a U.S. warship during World War 2. They refer occasionally, to a stack of papers (battle plans or intelligence reports) as they point to a relief map of Iwo Jima. They discuss various places on Iwo Jima.
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