Japanese prisoners behind barbed wire enclosures during World War 2 on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Japanese prisoners at attention. Prisoners under tree in barb wire enclosure. Japanese prisoners resting. Dead Japanese soldiers. Marines inspecting Japanese booty. Articles left behind by Japanese.
U.S. 3rd Armored Division elements entering towns in France, during World War 2. Sign for town of "Pre En Pail". Group of captured German soldier prisoners of war sitting on side of road. Houses are decorated with French flags. Various vehicles pass along the street, including an M10 Tank destroyer. Tanks and vehicles entering town of Ciral. Sign reads "Ciral". Civilians wave to passing vehicles. American troops on a tank pose with a woman standing next to it. One U.S. Army soldier on the tank holds a little French girl. A French man stands near his daughter as the little French girl poses on a tank holding a homemade American flag.
U.S. Army soldiers of the 314th Infantry regiment, 79th Infantry Division, entering town as people cheer in Mamers, France on August 12, 1944 during liberation of France in World War 2. Next scene shifts to Argentan France on August 13, 1944, and shows German prisoners of war marching through the streets and assembling in courtyard at a monastery in Argentan. View of some Mongolians in a courtyard who were Russians pressed into service by the Germans. General George S Patton talking to Major General Lunceford E Oliver, CG of the 5th Armored Division. General Patton leaves in a jeep.
Opening scene shows view from a Martin B-26 Marauder aircraft looking down and back at others in a formation on a bombing mission in World War 2. Black flak bursts are seen all around them. Aerial closeup silhouette view of Douglas A-26 Havoc bomber crossing the English Channel en route to France. Others are seen flying far below. Next, a patchwork of farms is seen below from one of the bombers, followed by views of bombs striking a German airfield at Abbeville, France. Another view of Douglas A-26 bombers penetrating the coastline of France as they proceed on a mission to bomb the German supply depot at Rennes, France. View from cockpit of an airplane approaching the French coast at extremely low altitude and proceeding inland, skimming over buildings as it heads toward the target. Scene shifts to views from inside a British aircraft showing large holes from antiaircraft hits to its left wing, and then views of bombs bursting and dense white smoke rising from below as it passes over the German supply depot target.
General Eisenhower, Allied commander in Sicily and General Patton of U.S. 7th Army, talking in Sicily, Italy, during World War 2. British General Montgomery, steps down a plane. He shakes hand with U.S. Lieutenant General George S. Patton. Two hundred thousand Axis prisoners of war, mostly Italian, are assembled and board ships for POW camps in Africa, Britain, and the United States.
Volunteers in queue to help harvest food crops in Maine, United States during World War II. College women plant potatoes. Tractors used for harvesting. String beans or green beans gathered after cutting. Volunteers working at a shed. Packaging and preservation of food. Trucks unload at a storage place. Tomatoes are cleaned. Workers at assembly line canning and packaging machinery, processing tomatoes and other vegetables and canning them, including for use in soldier rations for World War 2. Vegetables treated and stored. Boxes of canned vegetables ready for shipment in the war effort.
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