Finance officer of U.S. 36th Division Paymaster in France during World War II. Interiors of office shows finance officer of U.S. 36th Division Paymaster passing lire and francs to U.S. soldiers.
Finance officer of U.S. 36th Division Paymaster in France during World War II. Interiors of office as U.S. soldiers arrive and receive lire and francs from finance officer of U.S. 36th Division Paymaster.
U.S. Naval operations in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A damaged Japanese fuel dump on a Pacific island. A damaged Japanese pillbox. A U.S. officer on the deck of a ship. A radar grid turns. U.S. officers come aboard. The group talks on the deck.
U.S. 35th air policemen parked outside U.S. Army FEAF (Far East Air Forces) headquarters in Tokyo. American soldiers emerge from the FEAF headquarters building and line up with their gear on sidewalk across the street. It is raining. An officer reads orders to the soldiers and they get into a truck. An air police jeep backs up. The jeep and the truck pull away. View of top of the building, from which the United Nations and U.S. flags fly.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers use a mobile crane and other construction equipment to rebuild a bridge during the Korean War. Closeup of engineers standing on the edge of a newly built section of the bridge. Wheels of the mobile crane are nearby. They lower a cable as an inflatable boat arrives carrying steel sections for the construction. The boat and its cargo is pulled in and tied up to the existing structure. Scene shifts to a dirt road, where several Patton tanks are clustered near a large tent. Tank crews are checking their guns and equipment. Closeup of Lieutenant General James Van Fleet, newly appointed Commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, at the construction site. Closeup of a Patton tank with crew members visible, as it passes the camera. Its main gun is wrapped in tarpaulin covering. Next, a Patton tank is seen crossing a pontoon bridge. U.S. troops firing an M20 75mm recoilless rifle at enemy positions from a temporary hillside base. American troops firing a mortar. Scene shifts completely to Korean refugees fleeing the battlefields. They and their belongings are loaded into trucks, along with food and other supplies. Closeups of some of the refugees. A column of trucks filled with refugees is seen making its way along a dirt road. United Nations troops investigate possible infiltrators from the North, They are seen searching and questioning some. A sign at one area reads: "65th PW Cage. Keep Out." Some in the prisoner area are seen being interrogated and writing answers to questions.
Japanese aircraft attack Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States during World War II. Japanese diplomats come out of building in Washington DC after having met with Secretary of State Hull regarding peace terms. People gather outside the building. Japanese airplanes fly in formation over the Pearl Harbor. They bombard the United States Naval Base. U.S. ships underway at sea and docked at the harbor explode. Smoke arises from bombardment. People on the street as they run to save their life. From a May 1963 newsreel recounting the events years prior.
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