United States 511th Parachute Infantry paratroopers load supplies under C-47 aircraft in Luzon, Philippines. Plane takes off.
United States 511th Parachute Infantry paratroopers jump from C-47 aircraft in Luzon, Philippines. Parachutes descend towards ground.
Barrage balloons fly as anti air craft guns are fired from a destroyer in the Battle of Midway in Pacific Theater during World War II. Tracers fired as antiaircraft guns burst barrage balloons. Japanese plane comes in for attack. 5"guns aboard a destroyer fired. Japanese plane crashes. United States Navy SBD dauntless makes a landing on the flight deck of Yorktown, an aircraft carrier. F4F coming in for landing.
German film about the Battle for the Caucasus. Opens showing a map of the region, centered on Pyatigorsk. German troops are seen descending from wooded hills above the Kuban river. They launch a rubber raft and start crossing the river in it, as Soviet artillery shells splash in the water near them. Closeup of soldiers paddling the raft. Views from inside one of two rafts being paddled across the river, under artillery fire. German and Romanian soldiers participate in the crossings and make their way through heavy brush on the other side. They throw hand grenades. One Romanian soldier fires a vz.26 light machine gun. Others hunt Soviet snipers hidden in trees. They encounter one and shoot him down with their rifles. View from shore of a raft of Romanian soldiers being pulled by a cable toward the camera. Some are seen crossing the river in a power boat. Closeup of boatman at the tiller of the boat. Views of Romanian soldiers moving along the river bank near houses and roads. They move an artillery field piece along the shoreline. Movements of trucks raise much obscuring dust at the foot of the Caucasus mountains. Romanian troops hunkered down beside a road as a tank moves raising lots of dust in the background. Closeup of a Romanian T-4 tank (or German Panzer IV) advancing toward the camera. German forces with armor, artillery, and vehicles enter the town of Pyatigorsk. German forces setting up positions on a plain, and firing artillery at zero elevation and anti aircraft guns at Soviet positions. Armored vehicles and crews taking a break. German infantry marching in loose formation deeper into the Caucasus. Horses pulling artillery pieces and supplies through the water. A German SdKfz 7 half track proceeding through the water, towing an s.F.H. 18, 15cm field howitzer. A soldier hitches a ride on the hood of a staff car being towed through the water. View of Maikop, an Oil city on North Slope of Caucuses. Local Commissars taken prisoner, being escorted. Soldiers display a captured Bolshevik flag containing image of Joseph Stalin. Captured prisoners being marched, guarded by armed German soldiers on horseback. Scene shifts to German artillerymen setting up in a cornfield for a battle for the oil fields South of Maikop. Artillery firing, with operations continuing into the night. Fires raging at night from Soviet artillery strikes. German infantry advancing in the daylight. SdKfz 7 half tracks towing s.F.H. 18, 15cm field howitzers, past burning buildings. Closeup of infantry and armor advancing through dust and heat.
World War II Lend-Lease activities to Russia via American outposts in Iran and Iraq. Traces routes of American shipments from Basra to other positions in Middle East. A convoy of trucks takes war material under lend lease activities from Basra. An officer checks the papers of the shipment. Freight trains carry shipment. A map traces route of war material shipment from Basra to Tehran. Workers at General Motors assembly plant in Khoremshar, Iran.
Ships anchored at a harbor in Singapore during World War II. A Junk sails in Singapore. View of Istana (Orchard Rd, Singapore 238823). People walk in the streets of the Japanese-occupied city. View of a Muslim Mosque and Hindu temple in Singapore.
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