View of a motorboat heading toward an Japanese Imperial Navy Niagra-class light cruiser anchored near a submarine, in waters off Kiska,in the Aleutian Islands, during World War 2. Scene shifts to Japanese naval guns firing. A U.S. Army Air forces B-24 Liberator bomber is seen in flight overhead. Explosion and smoke fills scene next to Japanese camera ship, and then another bomb explodes in the water nearby. A Japanese submarine and destroyer are in the background. Japanese ship fires anti-aircraft guns at a U.S. PBY-5 Catalina in flight overhead. Camera follows flight of the Catalina past ship's funnel which is emitting black smoke. Another bomb hits water near the ship. More anti-aircraft fire is seen from the ship. The Catalina turns away, with a slight trail of smoke behind. Next, a large explosion is seen from a bomb striking near the shore. A Catalina, flying toward the camera ship, passes over a hill, through black flak clouds, and is struck. It descends, emitting trailing puffs of black smoke and strikes the shoreline in an explosion and black smoke.
A German documentary film shows German infantry battling Soviet forces on the Eastern Front during World War 2. A German soldier looks through binoculars. German infantrymen in white camouflage suits advance across a snow-covered field. Infantrymen fire machine guns and rifles. A German soldier enters a dugout. Soldiers rush from the dugout and run along a trench. Two observers climb up a tree. The infantrymen fire machine guns and rifles. German ski troops wearing white clothing advance across snowy plains. German soldiers fire mortars from concealed positions.
German civilians desperate for food, supplies, and fuel at end of World War 2 loot a warehouse in Munich, Germany. German civilians fill buckets with coal from a railroad yard and loot a warehouse for food. The civilians carry crates out of the warehouse. They break the crates with bricks.
U.S. 801st Medical Air Evacuation Squadron evacuates wounded soldiers from Munda airstrip on New Georgia Island in the Solomon Islands during World War 2. Interiors of a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain transport airplane shows a medical corpsman giving water to a wounded soldier. A corpsman treats a patient with bandaged face and arms. Aerial view of a coastline. The C-47 approaches an airstrip, which appears to be Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, for landing. Litter patients are unloaded from the aircraft and placed into an ambulance.
The World Series baseball championship game being played in Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A crowd in the stands. U.S. President Herbert Hoover watches the game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia Athletics. The game in progress. The crowd cheers in the stands. The St. Louis Cardinals beats the Philadelphia Athletics with a score of 5-2. The crowd on the playground after the game is over.
A dramatization shows the survival of a downed U.S. pilot in a Vietnamese jungle during the Vietnam War. The pilot down on his knees rubbing two bamboo sticks together to create a small fire. He blows into a small hole. He rubs the two sticks together. Smoke rises from the area. The pilot blows on bamboo shavings. Food boiling in a bamboo tube. The pilot picks out a piece of food from the boiling water and eats it. He waves his white cloth. A U.S. Navy UH-2C Seasprite helicopter passes overhead. The pilot walks through undergrowth. He stops to hack at a bent over bamboo.
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