American and French officers pose for the photographers. United States military officers in Morocco during World War II. Among the group are Major General George S Patton, Major General Hobart R Gay, French General Charles Nogues and Grand Vizier to the Sultan. General Patton and U S officers leave by car. Mohammed V of Morocco is seen. Guards on the steps of building.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stands with a Naval Officer and Sir Allan Brooke, Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, aboard a British warship en route to North Africa. Churchill and Brooke don life vests and relax on deck. General Brooke, Prime Minister Churchill and British Field Marshal Jan Smuts stand on deck in their life vests. Churchill descending a ladder on the ship. Churchill, Brooke, and Smuts, aboard a launch entering harbor in North Africa. Scenes of congested pier at the port. Jeeps and troops crowd about to see the Prime Minister and members of Imperial General Staff, as they slice through the crowd to meet up with General Bernard Law Montgomery. Winston Churchill, smoking a cigar, walks and converses with General Montgomery. View of Prime Minister Churchill, cigar in mouth, deftly stepping across from one ship to another. Crew of the first ship cheers him and he doffs his hat and flashes a V for victory hand sign. (World War II period)
United States High Command holds World War II war planning parley. The U.S. High Command leaders stand and talk. General Henry (Hap) Arnold, General George Marshall, Admiral Ernst King, Admiral Land, Admiral William Leahy, Presidential advisor, Harry Hopkins, Paul V. McNutt, Civilian Head of Manpower, and Elmer Davis, Head, Office of War Information, in the conference. The personages are seated on a table. Food served on the table.
First of three American air attacks on Japanese positions in Hong Kong on 25 Oct 1942, during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces North American B-25 Mitchell aircraft lined up at an airfield in China. General Claire L. Chennault, of Flying Tigers fame, discusses the missions with Colonel Caleb V. Haynes China Air Task Force (CATF) Bomber Section Commander and Colonel Robert T. Scott (CATF's 23rd Fighter Group Commander) 11th Bomb Squadron B-25 takes off from Ehr Tong Airfield at Kweilin (Guilin), China along with P-40 fighter escort. Formation of escorting Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighters. B-25 bombers in flight over mountain ranges. Bombs being dropped over the Hong Kong headquarters of the Japanese. Bombs impact and smoke rises.
French civilians greet Allied troops after the Liberation of Paris during World War II. A crowd of French civilians in Latin Quarter section greets Allied troops entering the city. A French man flashes a “Victory” gesture. A soldier on a Jeep takes pictures. Crowds of French civilians making “V for Victory” hand gesture.
Filipino civilians greet United States Army troops upon their return to the Philippines during World War II. A convoy of LSM (Landing Ship Medium) underway at sea. Allied troops come out of the cargo door of LSM and walk towards the beach. Filipino civilian boys greet the soldiers at beachhead. Filipino boy flashing the “V-sign” (“Peace sign”). A Filipino young man shows fifty centavos Japanese occupation money (Japanese government-issued Philippine peso or “Mickey Mouse” money). The young man tears the money and throws it away. A Marine puts bandage on an injured Filipino boy's back and face. (World War II period).
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