American and Australian infantry moving along a dirt path in New Guinea, during World War 2. They pass damaged Japanese tanks and are seen sitting on one posing for the camera. Coming ashore from a small boat, the troops pass a beached Japanese landing boat full of shell holes. A group of Australians, in a landing boat, display a captured Japanese flag. Allied troops moving along wet jungle paths and crossing a wooden bridge. Australian soldiers pull U.S. howitzers through the jungle mud by means of ropes. A lookout in a rugged watch tower observes a C-47 cargo plane as it airdrops supplies. View of Allied soldiers sitting around a fire enjoying their dinner.
The Allies mount an amphibious landing in North Africa during World War 2. U.S. ships underway at sea. German forces attack the ships. View of guns firing and tracers visible in night sky during battle. Scene changes to day time and a group of German soldier and officer prisoners of war (POW), many pilots from German Luftwaffe, carry their luggage and board a ship en route to a prison camp. They climb up the ship's ladder at port. Captured shells on the ground. Destroyed German armored vehicle. A knocked out German Panzer IV tank is examined by U.S. soldiers.
U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt launches the new aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10), successor to the earlier Yorktown (CV-5) lost in the battle of Midway during World War 2. The First Lady holds a bouquet and talks to an officer. People crowd at a shipyard for the launch and cheer. The ship begins to move down the ways prematurely, so Mrs. Roosevelt has to hurry with the Christening. View of the ship going down the ways and entering the water, at the Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard in Virginia.
Lumberjacks in a Canadian forest cut Douglas fir. A luberjack man cuts a tree with an axe. Men use axes for cutting tress. The trees fall. Many views of giant trees crashing to the ground after they are cut. A railroad train loaded with logs cross a bridge. The logs are dropped in a river for transport. The workers walking on floating logs in the water work to send the logs down the river to saw mills so they can be cut into lumber for use in the war effort during World War 2.
A documentary depicts combat activities of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division during World War II. 'APO Tokyo' written on a tank. U.S. troops on tanks and jeeps enter Tokyo soon after end of World War 2. The jeeps and U.S. military vehicles driven on a war torn street of Tokyo. A sign board reads '1st Cavalry Division, First in Tokyo'. Two soldiers stand in front of the board and shake hands. The troops carry guns and flags of the Cavalry Division parade. Insignia of the 1st Cavalry Division.
Depicts activities of U.S. Navy personnel aboard a warship in the Pacific Ocean. USS Lexington (CV-2) aircraft carrier underway. Biplanes of the U.S. Navy flying overhead. An airplane in flight. The airplanes parked on the deck of the carrier and crew around the planes. An airplane takes off from the deck. The airplane in flight. The airplanes in flight and in formation. The carrier underway. An airplane lands aboard the aircraft carrier.
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