Animated maps show the conquest of low counties and France. German bombers and Stukas in flight. The German Luftwaffe aircraft blast Dunkirk. Enemy bombers shot down. German Air Force Strafe at the harbor and enemy warships. German pilots seated at the controls in the cockpit. German antiaircraft batteries fire at British ships of Dunkirk. (World War II period).
Car pulls up to curb with Lincoln Memorial in the background, in Washington DC. Captain Ted W. Lawson and Captain Dean Davenport ascend the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, with one of them using a cane to assist, as they talk. They talk about home life and then they recall their flight as pilot and co-pilot on B-25 aircraft in the Tokyo raid in World War 2, one year earlier. Scene changes to open sea and view of the USS Hornet aircraft carrier (CV-8) underway at sea. Aircraft on the flight deck of USS Hornet ready for the operation 'The Doolittle Raid'. Airmen soldiers watch as Lt. Colonel Doolittle ties a Japanese medal onto a bomb. Closeup view of the medal on the bomb. The B-25 aircraft on flight deck ready for the attack on Tokyo. Lawson and Davenport talk about how they suffered engine failure on the return from Tokyo. The crew aboard the ship exercise, running in a group on an open part of the flight deck. Crews starting aircraft on April 18, 1942. The B-25 aircraft of Lt. Colonel Doolittle taking off first from the flight deck. Other B-25 Mitchell bombers taking off from the short flight deck. Planes in flight. Large image of United States flag waving. Still images of pilots captured by the Japanese during the raid. General Henry Arnold ("Hap" Arnold) seated at a desk and speaking, denounces the execution by the Japanese of U.S. pilots and calls on the forces of the US. Army Air Forces to continue their efforts until the enemy are destroyed.
'Letter from Buna'. A U.S. Army soldier writes a letter during World War II, while seated under a tarp in rain in a jungle area. U.S. Army and Army troops from Australia on the Buna campaign in New Guinea. Troops assemble at Port Moresby, New Guinea. A corduroy road is constructed in jungles. Supplies dropped from the air. Dense forests in the background. Firing on Japanese from beach positions during Battle of Buna-Gona. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers on beach and in trench positions that were overrun by allies. Thin and emaciated Japanese POWs (Prisoners Of War) sit on the ground. Native people carry injured men on stretchers to native huts. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur seen speaking with Australian General Thomas Blamey.
U.S. Marines sit by enemy pillbox with weapon laying alongside him in Korea, during Korean War. Dead Korean lies on the ground. Korean civilian prisoners with their hands raised in the air. Marine with weapon pushes sandbags away from a pillbox. Marine stands by an entrance to steel pill box as Korean civilian stands along-side him. The civilian talks to someone inside. Korean woman washes hands of a wounded old man. A sign in Korean writing with English writing at the bottom 'Zuan'. Marines in full combat gear. M-26 Tank guided by a Marine. Nude North Korean prisoners.
A South Korean civilian kneel down on side of a road at Naktong River Area in Korea. U.S. Marines with weapons in sling arms advance in scattered formations alongside a road and rice paddies, during the Korean War. Marines advance along the farm terrain. Several Marines move along through the underbrush terrain. Marines fire M-1 rifles. Marines dug in on top of hill, fire weapons. Marine with a radio. Marines go down towards the valley. Marines in crouched position. Marines advance towards the top of a hill. Marines go down side of hill. Abandoned Korean machine gun. Marines prepare to fire 30 caliber air cooled machine gun at a village.
United States 1st Provisional Marine Brigade sits on a dock in Japan. Marine sits on the ground and cleans parts of disassembled 30 Caliber air cooled machine gun. Another man comes and assembles the gun. Both Marines wear dungarees without jacket. Trucks loaded with Marine troops moves along the dock area. Marines sit on the ground. A Marine cleans M-1 rifle. Marine looks over the gear on side.
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