U.S. forces battle against the enemy on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II.. Animated map shows U.S. 2nd, 4th and 27th Infantry Divisions advancing towards the northern Region of Saipan. Troops move uphill. Tanks fire at Japanese positions. 2nd Division Marines behind a bush look at a map. Japanese ammunition captured from enemy caves. Animated map shows the territories occupied by U.S. forces in the northern region.
U.S. forces battle against the enemy on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II.. A train loaded with ammunition heads towards Aslito Airfield. Animated map shows Garapan and other territories occupied by U.S. forces. Dead Japanese on the ground. Soldiers load and fire artillery. Troops fire machine guns. Fire and explosion on a hillside. 2nd Marine Division and 27th Infantry Division battle against the enemy.
U.S. forces battle against the Japanese on Saipan island, Mariana Islands during World War II. Dead Japanese on the ground. 4th Marine Infantry Division advances along a beach area. U.S. forces fire at Japanese caves. The captured Japanese. Dead Japanese with sticks in hand.
Engine failure forces a YB-10, of the 1934 U.S. Army Alaska Flight,to make a forced landing in Cook Inlet, two miles from Anchorage. View of the B-10 partly submerged in the water as men approach it in a small boat. The number 145 seen on the tail sticking out of the water. Boats moving near the stricken airplane and men wading in the water to assess ways of salvaging it. The aircraft on the beach after being pulled from the water. Men gathered around it starting repairs. A crane lifts a damaged propeller from the plane. Next, the crane lifts the right engine from the plane. View of the large crane with the engine suspended. A crewman walking under the nose of the repaired airplane. Another tapping a repair with a hammer.
Scenes of Soviet forces preparing for battle in Leningrad, Russia against the siege by German forces during World War 2. A large procession of Soviet soldiers walking in the snow near the Palace Square. They proceed past the Narva Triumphal Gate. A contingent of uniformed soldiers marches by the gate. A group of soldiers kneels at the tombstone of 18th Century Russian Generalissimo Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov, famous for never losing a battle. One soldier kisses a revolver. Outside in the snow, Russian troops assemble before a flag being the image of Lenin. The soldiers all kneel as past glories are recounted (brief clips of fictional films showing Russian heroes like Alexander Nevsky and others). The Soviet soldiers stand again and march, singing, in the snow. Ordinary citizens march in the snow towards the Narva Triumphal Arch or Gate. Russian troops in uniform march past the Gate. One Russian soldier pulls a sled behind him. A large contingent of ski troops marches, carrying snow skis over their shoulders, followed by a contingent of paratroopers, in winter white camouflage jump suits. More Soviet soldiers in white camouflage march carrying snow skis. A contingent of Russian ski troops marches in the snow, dressed in white camouflage outfits.
Allied campaigns against Japan during World War II. Animated map depicts battles for various islands in the Pacific like Guadalcanal, Palau, Mariana Islands. A map of the Philippines. United States troops invade the Philippines. Naval guns fire at a shore and flak bursts are seen. Dramatic shot of a Japanese Zero aircraft approaching U.S. Navy ships that are firing guns. The Japanese aircraft is hit at close range to the ship, a wing ruptures, it is consumed in fire and crashes with explosion in the sea beside the ship. Many landing craft with U.S. Army forces landing at beach on Leyte. Soldiers land and advance inland. United States Army General Douglas MacArthur and President Sergio Osmena of the Philippines wade ashore. Native women and children on the island are assisted by U.S. forces and provided with food and protection. Following are meetings of wartime Allied leaders, shown briefly in the ending of the film: TC: 01: 39, Prime Minister Winston Churchill meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the battleship, USS Augusta, at Newfoundland, during the Atlantic Conference, 1941. Roosevelt stands at the railing, assisted by his son, Army Captain Elliot Roosevelt. TC: 01:41. Roosevelt and Churchill meeting with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, at the Cairo conference, in 1943. TC: 01:44. Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill pose outside the Livadia Palace during the Yalta conference, 1945. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, American Ambassador Harriman, British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, and Churchill's daughter, Sarah, in uniform, are among those standing behind the seated Big Three. TC: 01:46, Delegates from 51 Nations gathered for the first meeting of the UN General Assembly,in Westminster Central Hall,London, England, in 1946.
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