A young Chinese boy is adopted by the U.S. 14th Army Air Force deployed in China during World War II. Officers of the U.S. Army Air Force welcome the little 4 year old boy named Tiger Joe in their office. Officers clean him in a bathroom and then dress him as a GI. Tiger Joe at a desk as Assistant First Sargent. He stands during inspection of drills. An officer arranges his uniform and gun. He marches behind all other GIs.
Images from late in World War II in Europe. Nighttime views of aerial bombardment of Germany late in World War II. Aerial view of many fires and explosions on ground in Germany at night as seen from Allied aircraft. Hermann Goering touring ruins in a German city. A lineup of new German Army recruits late in the war, including a very young boy soldier in full Army uniform, talking to an official who, from the back, appears to be Joseph Goebbels. Allies advancing into Berlin. Artillery and rockets being fired during Battle of Berlin. A German civilian woman walking among rubble and ruins in a German city. Victory celebrations in Paris during he liberation of Paris. Crowds in Paris cheering happily, view of Arc de Triomphe with band marching. View of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle walking side-by-side down a Paris boulevard as crowds cheer them. Soviet (?) military personnel wearing large improvised warm shoes walk in a snowy climate, exhausted. View of explosion as Nazi Swastika atop grandstand at Zeppelin field (Zeppelinfeld) in Nuremberg, Germany, is blown up by the U.S. Army after the defeat of Germany.
New government formed in Germany after the defeat of Nazis during the World War II. Leaders of the Allied nations meet and talk during the Potsdam Conference. Stalin, Truman, and Churchill seen greeting each other. Soviet Marshall Joseph Stalin's partition plans and aspirations shown on a map. Russian troops march in East Germany and Stalin and Khrushchev with other communist leaders of East Germany review a parade. Military and Civil Police guards march on roads of East Germany. Women police officers during the patrols. An investigative police officer or Stasi police escorts a detained civilian through a doorway marked, "Untersuchungs Haftanstalt Wittenberge" (Investigative Detention Wittenberg).
U.S. Marines during invasion of Iwo Jima in World War II. Marines carry wounded men on stretchers to Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boats, waiting in the surf. Higgins boats; an LCI(G) gunboat; and a Fletcher-class destroyer are seen, offshore, in the background. A double column of marines marching with full field gear along a dirt road. They pass other marines climbing aboard a DUKW headed in the opposite direction. Marines lift a jeep from a DUKW, and place it on the ground, using an A-Frame crane hoist installed on another DUKW. Sequence shifts to the beach, where wounded are seen in a Higgins boat. Coast guard crewmen close the ramp door of the boat so it can proceed away from the shore. Gunboats and ships in background. Next, a Higgins boat hits the beach and marines climb out through the surf, carrying ammunition boxes. They are followed by a jeep driving off the boat. In this same scene, other Higgins boats are seen heading to the shore and the Fletcher-class destroyer, and gun boats are visible in the background. A Higgins boat from the USS Lenawee (APA-195) hits the beach and marines rush ashore from it carrying spools of communications wire and other supplies.
United States soldiers offload vehicles from amphibious vehicles during Philippine invasion of Lingayen Gulf in World War II. A soldier on a jeep offloaded from a Landing Ship Tank (LST) almost completely covered by sea water. A bulldozer tank pulls the jeep out on the beach. Troops on a truck which is offloaded from the LST.
United States soldiers move inwards during the Philippine invasion of Lingayen Gulf in World War II. They inspect a wrecked Japanese Air Force plane in a field. American soldiers climb on the wings of the airplane. The burnt fuselage and destroyed engine of the plane. Symbol of Imperial Japanese Air Services on the fuselage of the plane. Trucks loaded with troops driven away from the field.
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