Buildings devastated during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. A crane operates. Views of devastated buildings on Island. Wrecked Japanese planes at airfield. Entrance of Japanese air raid shelter. Wrecked air strip.
Nationalist Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) troops attacking Japanese-held Teng-Chung (also Tengchong or Tengchung), a city in Yunnan province, on the Burmese border, during World War II. A Chinese Captain, watches through binoculars, as his infantry leave trenches and advance toward a hilltop fortification. Shells burst near the summit and around the advancing troops, who carry poles and ladders. Upon reaching the outer walls they use the ladders to scale them and enter the fortification. Later, KMT soldiers are seen sheltering against buildings as the town is struck by Japanese shellfire. They run forward. A KMT soldier employs a flame thrower. They run past barricades and burning vehicles, toward a damaged building. Two riflemen take up prone positions, as the soldier with the flame thrower passes in front of them. The infantrymen crawl forward cautiously.
73rd bombardment wing of the 20th Air Force of the United States Army Air Force at Isley Field Base in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. B-29 bombers take off for a mission to Truk, Caroline Islands under Japanese rule. Crew member inside a B-29 cockpit shoots other bombers flying above clouds, with film camera. A Japanese island as seen from the plane. Formation of B-29 bombers high in the sky.
Opens showing maps of German and Japanese occupied territory during World War 2. Camera zooms in on the Japanese territory and shows points of Allied pressure against it during the war. Camera zooms in on German occupied areas and shows Allied pressure from The Atlantic and Mediterranean. View from above of formations of C-47 transport aircraft flying over water. (It may involve an invasion rehearsal, because the planes are not in D-Day stripes.) Formations of boats leaving long wakes as viewed from aircraft overhead. U.S. paratroopers relaxing inside a C-47 aircraft. They are alerted and don their helmets preparing to jump. Formation of C-46 Commando transport aircraft viewed from below. A paratrooper hooked up to a static line inside a transport plane. View from one of the aircraft in a formation dropping paratroopers over desert area. Their black chutes opening below the aircraft. Occasional white chutes seen. White parachutes seen from above as they descent toward agricultural land below.
D-Day + 7 on Iwo Jima during World War 2. View of Japanese wooden crate in debris and sea grass. A bottle of Saki sits next to it. A U.S. marine examines it closely and finds a wire connected to the crate (a booby trap). He cuts the wire, removes the bottle, and ties a red warning flag by the crate. Camera focuses on a wrecked Japanese 75mm wooden-wheeled mountain gun with several shells on the ground nearby, and then on the breech of, what appears to be a wrecked 10cm wooden-wheeled cannon with a shell in the sand next to it.
Charles Winninger narrates facts about the lend-lease and mutuals aids by Allied nations fighting against the Axis powers during World War II. Animated map shows Japanese threaten eastern coast of United States. British aid under the lend lease flies to U.S. German attack on Suez canal countered by British and U.S. Armies. Map shows timely aids allowed munition factories at work and new recruits joining the military. Australia and New Zealand aid the fighting Allied nations. U.S. warships to Russia in return to graves of German. Aid to China in return to the death of Japanese. Animation shows dropping of atom bomb and unconditional surrender of Axis nations.
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