Rear view of a car in President Franklin Roosevelt's motorcade driving along the flight line at Hickam Field, Honolulu, Hawaii, during World War 2. Several C-54 aircraft are seen (Navy designation R5D). President's The President sits with Admiral Chester Nimitz, in the back seat of an open 1942 Packard convertible motorcar. (It displays private use "A" gas ration stamp, the most restrictive, on its windshield.) Medics carry a wounded soldier, on a litter,past the car, and the President shakes his hand. A new scene shows the President's VC-54C airplane (Sacred Cow) parked in front of the air base terminal building, which it topped by a sign reading: "Aloha Air Transport Command." Change of scene shows spectators filling the lower level and porch of a building at the U.S. Naval hospital, Alea Heights. Next the President's car is seen surrounded by hospital staff in formation to honor him. Nurses in white stand at attention on the ground, and a large formation of sailors stand at attention on a porch above.
Gha'leh Morghi Airport in Tehran, Iran during World War 2. American pilot, smoking a pipe and wearing a seat pack parachute, approaches a Curtiss P-40 airplane (tail number 42-9992) displaying Soviet markings. As he climbs into the cockpit, we see that he wears a cap with so-called "40 mission crush," and sun glasses. He hand cranks the canopy closed. A line of P-40 aircraft are seen alongside a taxiway and the runway. Two men ride in a small tractor along the taxiway, as a Douglas A-20 Havoc aircraft takes off from the runway. A North American A-36 Apache aircraft takes off. Bell Aircobra and Curtiss P-40 parked with other aircraft at side of runway as an airplane is seen on final approach in distance. Elsewhere on the airfield, near hangars, a Douglas A-20 Havoc is parked near a Bell Aircobra, a P-40 and several British Hawker Hurricane aircraft. Closeup of the Douglas A-20 Havoc seen earlier in the film. A mixed cluster of parked aircraft with mountains in background. A line of Hawker hurricane aircraft, an airport building in the center, and a Curtiss P-40 on the right, with mountain in background. A soviet sentry stands guard near a large single-engine aircraft with extreme up-swept wings.
British artillerymen load and fire 5.5 inch field gun, under camouflage netting in the North African desert, during World War 2. One soldier talks on radio. A squad of soldiers leaves their trench and moves forward.They march single-file across the sand, and pause to fix bayonets on their weapons, before charging across the terrain. They dive down into prone positions, near a dead German soldier. Shells from German artillery fire explode close in front of them.One shell almost strikes them. They continue to advance with shells bursting all around them.
Truck convoy of British troops moving across desert in North Africa, during World War 2. Light observation planes fly low overhead. British troops load a disabled tank aboard a flat bed truck while shellsl burst all around them during the operation. Brief view of British paratroopers seated inside a transport aircraft. British troops refueling and rearming a tank. A large number of German and Italian prisoners of war are assembled under British guard, in the desert.
U.S. officers General George C Marshall, HH Arnold, Brehon Somervell and Lesley J McNair seated around table and discussing map in Washington DC, USA, during World War 2. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill at a meeting in Casablanca, French Morocco.
During World War 2, American 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division, troops march on a road near Fedhala in French Morocco. Native Moroccans pass on road. Close-up views of the faces of some of the marching U.S. army soldiers.
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