U.S. Navy ships underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2 for the invasion of Philippines. Twin 5 inch mounts firing up into the sky at Japanese enemy aircraft. Other guns fired from the ship. Flak in the sky. Tracers heading into sky. Crew loading and firing a gun. Japanese aircraft are hit. Dramatic hit of a Japanese aircraft that explodes and falls toward the sea as a bright fire ball trailing thick smoke.
A convoy to resupply allied troops at Mindoro, Philippines, seen underway, as it comes under attack by Japanese Kamikaze planes, during World War 2. Opening scene shows a burning Japanese warplane trailing smoke as it falls and breaks up before crashing into the sea. Flak clouds seen in the sky from the antiaircraft fire of the U.S. battleship, USS South Dakota (BB-57) seen low on the horizon in the background. Several ships are seen in the convoy. Suddenly a huge explosion occurs as a Japanese kamikaze (unseen) strikes the 14 thousand ton Liberty ship, SS John Burke. She is carrying a cargo of ammunition that explodes, raising a wall of water around the ship and creating a mushroom cloud of smoke that billows high into the sky.
U.S. Navy forces in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. U.S. Navy TBM aircraft taxiing over the flight deck during sunset. U.S. Navy F4U Corsair take off from the deck. U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat aircraft take off from the aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier underway. U.S. Navy SB2C Helldiver in formation flight overhead. The aircraft in flight over rough terrain. Bombs hits marked on the terrain. Landing crafts circling off to the starboard side. Landing crafts head into beach on invasion.
U.S. warships fire at a Japanese aircraft overhead, during World War 2. Tracers are seen against the blue sky. The aircraft is hit and falls in white smoke. Several U.S. warships are seen underway, including an aircraft carrier.
Group of British Army officers relax while stationed in Oppeln (Opole), Upper Silesia, with other Allied forces as peacekeepers after the third Silesian uprising following the post World War 1 plebiscite. Several Italian Army officers pose for the camera. A unit of French Army bicyclist troops walks their bicycles as they leave a military post at Malapanerstrasse (Ozimska Street). French bicycle troops on their bicycles, riding along a rough road, causing several to fall, at side of the road. Several armed men patrol rail bridge, at Sczepanowitz (Szczepanowice) where one span had been destroyed by the Polish Konrad Wawelberg Destruction Group, on May 2nd. View of the bridge in state of partial reconstruction. A French Bicycle soldier and another armed man accompany a soldier operating a small rail car on the line. In the final scenes, behind the men riding the railway handcar, silhouettes of building spires can be seen on the horizon, in the distance, in Old Town Opole (now in Poland). Among these may be the Piat tower, the Town Hall, and the cathedral.
The first memorial erected to commemorate U.S.prisoners of war executed by the Nazis during the battle of the bulge (mostly elements of the American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion (FAOB), executed by the Kampfgruppe Peiper (part of the 1st SS Panzer Division). This was also known as the Massacre at Baugnez, or the Malmedy Massacre. A wooden cross and a sign reading 'USA - Belgium. To the prisoners of war of overseas who liberated the East districts and were the victims of Nazis cruelty." The wooden cross at the monument to commemorate the massacre of 115 American prisoners at Baugnez on December 17th 1944 during the Battle of Bulge, in World War 2.
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