Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California, during World War 2. The entrance to Walt Disney Animation Studios. Above the door is seen the studio's World War 2 service flag. Each blue star represented an employee serving in the Armed Forces. Gold stars represent an employee killed in the line of duty. Men and women workers entering and leaving the building. The interiors of the building showing artists at work at their desks. A woman cartoon artist adds colors to a drawing of a fighter aircraft. Animation artist Fred Moore seated at his desk sketching and reviewing his work. He flips a pad of papers. View of animator working on a sequence between two images of an military airplane.
Assault made by elements of U.S. 10th Army consisting of 1st Marines, 6th Marines, 77th and 96th Army Divisions on Shuri line in Okinawa during World War 2. Two Marines firing Browning M1919, 30 caliber machine gun, from a high ridge. Several bodies of fallen Japanese soldiers. (Note: Marine firing the machine gun might be Robert Sorensen, C-1-5 USMC, who recalled being filmed on Okinawa, while firing his machine gun from a ridge at about this date. He served with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division.)
Loose formation of U.S. Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers in flight during battle of Midway, in World war 2. View from backseat of one passing, ahead of a U.S. Yorktown class aircraft carrier. Formation of SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers in flight and closeup of one with pilot and rear gunner clearly seen. View of U.S. aircraft carrier underway below. View from aircraft carrier of SBD-3 flying low to port. Aircraft closely packed on deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8). A Grumman F4F, Wildcat, of Navy Fighter Squadron, VF-8, takes off from Hornet, followed by 2 Douglas Dauntless SBD dive bombers. Gun crews aboard the carrier fire 20 mm, 1.1 inch, and 5 inch guns at Japanese aircraft. Flak bursts in sky. Japanese planes are hit and fall into the sea.
Decoration ceremony on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Small unit stands in formation in front of a P-40 aircraft of the 44th Fighter Squadron on the Fighter 2 airstrip. U.S. officer reads citation. Commander of U.S. 25th Infantry Division, Major General Joseph Lawton Collins, shakes hand of 2Lt Jack Bade after awarding him an Air Medal. Several P-40s of 13th Air Force,seen nearby, with white stripes painted on them.
German infantry and tanks advance on the Eastern Front during World War 2. German Panzer IV tanks move across a snowy field. Artillery crew in action. Soil and snow thrown into air as shells hit the ground. An officer shouts into a megaphone. The crew of a German Sd.Kfz. 251 half track firing their gun at Soviet positions. They celebrate after hitting a target. German infantrymen run on the snowy field under fire. Type Sd.Kfz. 250/2 Half-track armored personnel carrier advances with crew member manning a gun. The tanks fire at enemy positions. They continue to advance and attack. Smoke rises from an explosion in the background. Infantrymen advance in the snow.
Sequence starts at Tontouta Air Base in New Caledonia, on the near left side of runway 2 in the area of the 13th Troop Carrier Squadron ( a.k.a. the Thirsty 13th) with their plane "Lady Eve" on the right. (The 801st Medical Air Evacuation Squadron was assigned to the 13th TCS on January 9, 1943, and remained with it until the end of the war. But they also flew on planes of the 63rd and 64th TCSs, and with the Marines.) Takeoff is on runway 11 at Tontouta Air Base. A pilot and a co-pilot at the controls in the cockpit of a C-47. A navigator at work. C-47s in flight west over New Georgia, 10 miles southeast of Munda, near Eghelo. The plane landing at Munda has no tail number and is probably a U.S. Marine Corps plane. They evacuate wounded soldiers from Munda airstrip on New Georgia Island in the Solomon Islands during World War 2. Doors of the aircraft are opened. An ambulance backs to the door of the aircraft. Litter patients are removed from the ambulance and loaded aboard the C-47.
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