U.S. soldiers in Gressenich, Germany during World War II. U.S. soldiers work on firing mechanism and generator of a U.S. T-27 rocket gun. A group of soldiers of 9th Infantry Division, 2nd Battalion, Company G watch rocket fire in woods. A soldier looks through binoculars. Smoke rises from shells exploding near Hastenrath. A crew fires a 155mm gun mounted on an M12 Gun Motor Carriage.
Armored fighting vehicles of the U.S. 6th Armored Division move up a road in Germany during World War 2. Vehicles including trucks, jeeps, M8 armored cars, half tracks and tanks advancing on the road. 15th armored regiment tanks in column. Large white tactical numbers synonymous with the 6th Armored Division displayed. Smoke rises from fire in the background. A T34 rocket launcher mounted on an M4 medium tank beside the road. A M4(105) tank of HQ company rounds a corner throwing up dust. A tank with a rocket launcher moves along the road. Jeeps loaded with medics move up with the armored spearhead (heading to their assembly area prior to the Rhine crossing the following day).
American Army officers speak with local German policemen in a town in Germany near the end of World War 2, in Europe. German homes on fire on outskirts of town. U.S. Sherman tanks moving at high speed along road beside a river. German firemen fighting fires with hoses. Charred remains of a burning German aircraft. (Unrelated brief glimpse of corpse at Concentration Camp.)
High school band members at an airport prior to the presidential inauguration of U.S. President Richard Nixon in Washington DC, United States. A sign reads '2nd DIV'. The high school band members practice along a runway. Buses in a parking area. A U.S. Army jeep pulls away. The band members practice.
U.S. 6th Marines, 22nd Regiment and 2nd Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Okinawan civilians are taken out from a large cave and are assisted to the top of a ridge by the Marines. United States Marine Corps Major General Roy Geiger watches the operations.
U.S. 6th Marines, 22nd Regiment and 2nd Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Injured Okinawan civilians who were hiding in a large cave are treated by U.S. medical corpsmen. The Marines stand on the edge of a large cave. American soldier carries an injured civilian woman to a open bed truck loaded with other Okinawa civilians. Water and food is given to Japanese prisoners. U.S. Army soldier gives water to a native civilian girl and boy.
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