Trucks and Douglas C-47 Skytrain Military transport planes at an airfield in Newbury, Berkshire, England during World War II. A truck drives past C-47 planes. A truck backing. Soldiers loading supplies from truck into the plane. British and Polish officers inspect chutes and containers before loading them into the plane. The officers talk to each other. A PH-104 combat camera.
Aerial footage of 8 planes off in the distance. Closeup shot of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft, with WW2 Lockheed P-38 Lightning airplanes flying far in the background. Closeup aerial shots of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft with the pilot visible in front of a thunderhead cloud. Various shots of Balalae Island, in the Solomon Islands. Bombs falling towards the island before explosions are seen along the airfield. Smoke rising from the impacts.
Famous Luftwaffe ace, Major Major Hans-Ulrich Rudel, and other figures, at an airfield in Berlin, Germany, 1944, during WW2. Narrator notes that Major Rudel is the first fighter aircraft pilot to be decorated with the Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds, the highest decoration. Major Hans-Ulrich Rudel was the first and only German to ever receive this award. Standing in front of a group of German soldiers, Major Rudel is interviewed about his most dangerous experience. He talks about a time he outran Soviet troops on foot after being shot in the left shoulder. Once back to safety, Major Rudel says he returned to his aircraft to continue the battle, despite his injury. The men laugh when Major Rudel jokes that he was only able to rejoin the battle because his army doctor was on vacation. Major Rudel talks about the number of tanks he destroyed in his first missions. Shot of Major Rudel climbing into the cockpit of a Henschel Hs 129 ground-attack aircraft. Scene changes to built-on cameras on a German ground-attack aircraft, documenting the shelling of Soviet tanks.
U.S. troops gathered around a tent, eating, in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, in 1942, during WW2. A line of soldiers carrying plates and bowls and cups waits to receive food. A man cooks food on a stove. Soldiers sit on the ground eating and warming by a fire. Wide view of the beach with ships and cranes out on the water. Crates of supplies stacked on the beach, soldiers move about. A soldier stacks an ammunition crate onto a large pile. Dozens of unfinned cylindrical bomb bodies on the shore. A crane, tractor, and bulldozer are unloaded from a boat. Panoramic view of a wide flat area to be built into an airfield, covered in shallow lakes.
U.S. Army Air Force B-24 bombers fly back to base after bombing the Japanese base at Kiska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, in 1942, during WW2. Narrator details the events of the successful mission. Close ups of the B-24 Liberators as they fly over water. Vast mountains of the Aleutian Islands in the background. The aircraft land back at the newly established U.S. base in the Andreanofs of the Aleutian Islands. Close ups of the bombers, now on the ground. U.S. soldiers exit the aircraft, inspect damage taken from Japanese fire on the fuselage. A group of U.S. pilots and crew walk across the airfield. Soldiers circle around and chat. Ending scene of soldier standing with cloudy Aleutian mountain rising in the background.
Rain slows Allied armies in Mediterranean. The 5th Army troops get stranded in flooded San Lorenzo, Italy. Army vehicles drive on streets with heavy water. Trucks drive on muddy roads. The 78th infantry Division tows vehicles stuck in mud. (World War II period).
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