British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden at an airfield in England during World War II. Anthony Eden reviews troops at the airfield. Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers and Major General Ira C. Eaker accompany the Secretary. Eden shakes hands with the officers at the U.S. bomber station. Secretary Eden looks on with an aircraft in the background. A man seated in the cockpit with Nazi German swastikas on the door of the plane. Secretary Eden shakes hands with flight crew members lined up at the bomber station. Officers including Colonel Curtis Le May, Colonel Archie Old, Colonel Peterson also present at the air base.
U.S. airmen in Corsica, France during World War II. U.S. airmen at a club as they raise their glasses to cheer and drink. Airmen with glasses in their hands as they celebrate in the club at Alto air base. Airmen sing as one of them plays an accordion. Officers at the counter play a dice game.
United States airmen in Corsica, France during World War II. A sign outside a tent reads 'Jerry's Clip Joint'. A beach club at Alto Air Base. An airman washes clothes on the foot of a bridge over a stream. A yo-yo champion practices at a bivouac area as other airmen look on. An airman with a cigar looks on as the yo-yo champion practices. A soldier comes out of a house and walks past a barber. A soldier gets a hair cut. A soldier reads a customer ready magazine. A crap game played with French money and dice. A man washes clothes.
United States airmen in Corsica, France during World War II. Two officers in bathing suits lying on a beach at Alto Air Base. Airmen leave two puppies in water and they swim ashore. Men sail in an improvised boat. Men in a motorboat as a pilot dives into the sea and is towed by the boat. Airmen in life rafts on the beach. Airmen in a life raft in a river. A pilot in a life raft with a dog. An airman jumps into the water. A pilot sails in an improvised boat. An airmen in a motorboat and a pilot in an improvised boat in the background.
A film 'Cold weather Seabee' about the training of U.S. Navy Seabees to work in cold weather regions in Colorado, United States. Seabees at work as they construct air bases and other facilities. Snow covered area in the Arctic region. Ships and submarines underway. The seabees loaded in trucks as they convoy heads for a training camp for Seabees in Colorado. Views of snow covered region. Seabees unload gear. A seabee sleeps in a bed and gets up and puts on his winter clothes and ski boots. An instructor teaches the seabees skiing. The seabees learn the basics of skiing as a few of them fall. An Army instructor guides them about the usage of snow shoe. Men put on snow shoes and walk through the snow.
View of B-29 superfortress aircraft, of 21st Bomber Command,flying over Tokyo,Japan, with Mount Fujiyama clearly visible. Bombs falling from the B-29s. Near ground view of street and smoke rising from bomb strikes. In Washington, DC, General Henry (Hap) Arnold, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Air Forces, and Lieutenant General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Assistant Chief of Staff , give a sendoff to crew of a XXI Bomber Command B-29 bound for the Pacific Theater. The B-29 crew write a message in chalk on a bomb, reading: "To the Warlords of Japan. We have not forgotten--the B-29s will remind you Again and Again and Again!!!" Views of the city of Tokyo, Japan, showing streets, buildings, cars and pedestrians. Animated map fades to Saipan Island. B-29s of the 21st Bomber command,73rd Bombardment Wing, 497th Bombardment Group,landing at Isley Field, Saipan, watched by airmen at the base. Animated map showing B-29 access to Japan, itself, from Saipan.Formation of B-29s in flight, and bombs falling over Japan.
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