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U.S. recruits being classified for assignments and being informed about the progress of World War II and why they fight.
New U.S. army recruits seated at benches in the classification center, taking notes, as an instructor at a blackboard tells them how to fill out their classification questionnaires, during World War 2. View of machines processing the questionnaires. Hollerith 88 column punch cards being sorted by machine. Newspaper article about the Air Force efforts to improve classification and assignments of new airmen. A recruit being counseled. An Airmen in barracks, filling out a post card form to complain about his assignment. Servicemen working with sewing machines and at long cobbler's benches repairing shoes. U.S. soldiers in pith helmets, laying communications cable from a truck. A soldier recording information about a shipment of supplies. Soldiers filling 5-gallon "jerry cans" with fuel from a hose. Others serving at a communications center in woods. A soldier fastening a cable to a tank. Soldier standing on a truck. Large group of soldiers gathered to listen to a lecture about explosives. Army draftsmen at their work tables. Soldiers using information and training materials.(Narrator states these materials are often ignored.) An army newsmap for Monday, August 31, 1942 posted on an Army office wall. A sergeant points to July, 1943, on a current calendar next to it, illustrating that the newsmap is long out-of-date. View of another news map and narrator notes they are produced weekly. An officer speaking to an auditorium of soldiers. A soldier arranging his personal gear. Infantry on field maneuvers, firing rifles as they advance across a field. Soldiers firing a Browning water-cooled machine gun; a mortar; and a 105mm M101A1 howitzer. The sergeant using a newsmap to brief his staff about the progress of the war. Opening frames of a War Department Film Bulletin, and soldiers in a theater, watching the film. Opening frames of the film,"Why We Fight," that goes on to show animated map of the German advance across Europe in World War 2. Scenes of German forces on the move, towing artillery, riding on tanks, and entering towns as they invade countries of Europe. Women and children running in streets under bombardment, and civilians fleeing from their homes during aerial bombing. A Bombed out city and civilian corpses lying on the ground. Women in Poland, identifying their dead and grieving over them. German Heinkel He 111 aircraft dropping bombs. Norwegians evacuating the city in trucks, and other vehicles and on foot, during the German invasion. A squadron of German Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft in flight. German Ju-87, Stuka dive bombers diving on targets. Civilians rushing to a bomb shelter, and other refugees boarding a truck to evacuate. More He-111 bombers dropping bombs. A Ju-52 trimotor transport (type used to transport German paratroopers). Buildings ablaze in a town. Large formations of German aircraft of various types flying overhead. Building destroyed and burning from bombing. Ju-87s flying close past the camera.
U.S. soldiers of the 8th Armored Division and the German civilians moving on the streets of Hinsbeck in Germany.
The U.S. soldiers of the 8th Armored Division in Hinsbeck, Germany during World War 2. Civilians returning to their homes in the town, after temporary evacuation . View of narrow street with jeeps parked. An M3 half-track pulling a trailer,moves past on the narrow lane. An M3 half-track maneuvers around a corner in center of town, followed by a 2.5 ton truck. Several U.S. soldiers are on the street and sidewalk.View of street sign on building reading: "Adolf Hitler Platz." A civilian man and woman carry several mattresses. Two boys stand on sidewalk by a cart full of belongings, watching U.S. Army jeeps and trucks pass in the street. The biggest boy goes into a doorway nearby, while the smaller pauses to watch the passing vehicles before running after his companion.
U.S. submarine, USS Cod (SS-224) rescues crew of Dutch submarine, O-19, aground on Ladd Reef, Spratly Islands, in World War II
View from deck of submarine, USS Cod (SS-224) on her last patrol near the end of World War 2, as she approaches to assist the Dutch submarine O-19, grounded on Ladd Reef, Spratly Islands, in the South China Sea. The O-19 signals with aldis lamp. Small waves can be seen breaking around her on the reef. Crew of the Cod prepare to rescue crew of the O-19. They inflate yellow life rafts. View of the Dutch submarine The USS Cod approaches close in dark blue water. Crew of the Dutch boat seen on her deck in life vests. View of the Dutch boat from starboard, abeam, her bow lifted up on the shoal. Sailors setting explosive charges aboard the O-19, signal to the USS Cod, as she moves away. O-19 crew members seen along with U.S. sailors aboard the USS Cod. Scuttling charges explode on the O-19. Crew member aboard the Cod photographs the event with a small motion picture camera. Crew members perched on the conning tower of the Cod to watch the event. Crew on starboard deck of the Cod. The hulk of O-19 remains on the reef. A U.S. Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer patrol aircraft flies overhead.
Crew of grounded Dutch submarine, O-19, being rescued by the U.S. submarine, USS Cod (SS-224) during World War II
A U.S. Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer aircraft flies low over the submarine, USS Cod (SS-224) as 3 of her crew members paddle a yellow inflated rubber raft to the Dutch submarine, O-19, aground on Ladd Reef, in the Spratly islands, South China Sea, during last month of World War 2. Crew members of the O-19 are seen on her deck. Rescued Dutch sailors seen aboard the USS Cod. Light signals being sent from the O-19, but no crew visible on her deck.
Carlson's Raiders board trucks to take them to their quarters upon their return to Pearl Harbor after their Makin Raid in World War II
Members of the U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Raider Battalion (Carlson's Raiders) on a pier at Pearl Harbor after returning aboard the USS Argonaut, following their famous Makin Raid in World War 2. They climb aboard large open trucks that drive them off the pier and on to the base. They wave as their trucks drive away
The USS Argonaut (SS-166) returns to Pearl Harbor with Carlson's Raiders, after the Makin Raid in World War II
The USS Argonaut (SS-166) returning to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after the famous Makin Raid in World War 2. Aboard are marines from the Second Raider Battalion (Carlson's Raiders). A military honor guard, on the pier, presents arms in salute. View of the Argonaut being pulled in by lines to the pier. Sailors and Marine Raiders stand on the deck. U.S. Navy ensign flies at the bow. Sailors watch from the deck of the USS Nautilus (SS-168) in the background. It has also just returned from the Makin Raid and is already tied up, on the opposite side of the dock. Sailors on the Argonaut, and on the pier, secure the lines and set up a gangway to the boat. A Naval officer comes aboard. Next, Admiral Chester Nimitz, and staff officers, are seen walking away from the Argonaut, after having formally greeted members of the crew and the Marine Raiders. Many sailors mingle on the pier. Marines of the 2nd Raider Battalion begin to walk away from the Argonaut, past the honor guard. View from a height, of honor guard in large formation, saluting. A truck drives onto the pier, as Pearl Harbor Navy personnel gather around the returning Marine Raiders as they leave the boat and pier.
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