A United States Army Air Forces B-17 bomber, tail number 41-24636, taxis and takes off from Pueblo Army Air Field in Colorado, during World War 2. View over wing of the B-17 in flight. The B-17 backs away to the right, levels off, flies right to left and towards and down under camera plane. Aerial view of the rugged terrain with low hazy clouds. Propellers spinning in the foreground. The B-17 in flight during the late evening hours.
United States troops in North Africa during World War 2. The American flag flies atop ruins of a French fort in North Africa. Ruins of the fort. Soldiers outside the ruins. The drum and bugle unit and a squad of soldiers with rifles march into the fort. Binoculars hanging on a sign board stating 'NEW YORK CITY - MAYOR MOLOTOV'. Soldiers sitting in the background and another one on a bicycle. The band and squad emerges from the ruins. A soldier with binoculars around his neck stands near the sign board. Soldiers among pup tents near the ruins. View of the landscape around the ruins. View of a house.
GSAP (Gun Sight Aiming Point) footage of medium bomber raids over Germany during World War 2. A formation of United States Army Air Forces Douglas A-26 Invaders drop 100-lb. bombs. Smoke from fires burning in the city below. Two A-26s in flight with bomb bay doors open and incendiary bombs dropping out. Smoke rises from the explosions below.
United States soldiers during a rehearsal for the Invasion of Normandy. in World War 2. A lookout wearing closed-sided non-glare glasses as he scans the sky for aircraft. He turns a dial located on the nose bridge of the glasses to adjust the vision. Soldiers at the deck gun of a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) as it approaches the shore in the faint morning light. Side ramps are dropped on the LCI and soldiers move down ramps and onto beach area. Soldiers get off and run across the beach. Tanks unloaded from a Landing Craft Tank (LCT) and taken across the beach. Column of troops going down beach, heads toward Landing Crafts on beach. They make a left turn moving inward. Hill in the background. Landing Crafts on the beach.
September 1943, in World War 2. Animated map shows advance of the Allied troops to Nadzab and Lae in papua New Guinea. The Australian 7th Division advance towards Lae. Soldiers in jeeps, on motorcycles and on foot advance through the jungle amidst air and artillery barrage. Soldiers fire machine guns and other artillery. Animated map shows the advance of General Thomas Blamey's troops towards Salamaua. Soldiers cross the Francisco River with natives. The Australian 9th Division advances along the east coast. Soldiers in puddles and streams. A military truck stuck in the mud. Soldiers prepare for jungle fighting. Soldiers take cover among bushes as Japanese troops fire. Machine gun nests in the jungle. USAAF B-25 Mitchell bombers drop bombs over enemy territory. Fire and smoke from the explosions. AN-M40 (Para-Frag) fragmentation bombs are dropped from USAAF A -29 Havoc aircraft. Australian 7th Division troops amidst artillery and anti-aircraft fire. USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress and B-26 Marauder bombers in the sky. On 16 September 1943, the Australian 7th Division captures Lae. Bombed ruins, damaged Japanese planes, destroyed airstrips, enemy ships and boats in the harbor. Destroyed Japanese ammunition dump 'Chinatown'. Australian 9th Division crosses the Bamboo River bridge to enter Lae. Animated map shows advance of amphibious forces, paratroopers and airborne operations of the 5th AAF. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur and his men at the 90th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing quarters.
Film opens showing a number of German soldiers walking into an area of a steel fabricating factory, where workers are taking a lunch break, during World War 2. The visitors are being escorted by a civilian factory executive. Closeup of workers seated at a table eating their lunch. As the soldiers stand around the table, on of the workers greets and converses with them. Next, the visiting soldiers stand back as workers use cables to guide a hot steel part being moved by an overhead crane and chain hoist, into position in a heavy hydraulic press. Closeup of young German Army officers observing the process. Closeup of decorations on uniform of one officer that include the close combat Clasp (Nahkampfspange); Iron Cross; The General Assault Badge (Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen) and two other unidentified military badges. Visiting soldiers observe as steel workers maneuver the heavy hot steel ingot in the heavy press. Closeup of the hot steel ingot suspended on the chain hoist. Closeups of soldiers as they watch and some workers as they manipulate the heavy hot steel part. A German soldier distributes cigarettes to some of the steel workers.
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