Soldiers filling fuel in United States Army Air Force planes in Philippines during World war II. A truck near the planes. A man unloads a drum from the truck. Soldiers help fill fuel in the planes. A mechanic works on a plane. Swastikas, Japanese flag and American flag painted on the fuselage of the plane.
View from U.S. Army Air Forces airplane flying low over a plateau overlooking Japanese town where fires are burning from prior strafing attacks, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan, near end of World War 2. Pilot banks sharply flying over a burning building. Gun camera view of strafing attack on crossroads town already burning from earlier attacks. Strafing attacks on coastal town, with fires burning. Hazy view of area from higher altitude. View from the aircraft as pilot rolls it over the terrain.
P-51 combat operations over a Japanese held hill near Burma border in Wanling, China. Aerial view of the terrain below. Smoke rises as the bombs hit the ground. Two P-51s in flight. P-51s dive to drop bombs over the mountains and valleys below. (World War II period).
U.S. captures Tarawa from Japan during World War II. Fighting in Tarawa. Explosions as the enemy positions are shelled. The U.S. Marines move forward. The wounded are placed on stretcher and the Marines waddle through the water and carry the wounded to the landing craft. A Marine takes off his battered helmet. The Marines move forward and on the way take prisoners. Dead Japanese soldiers. A Marine feeds a lone kitten which has survived. The U.S. Army Units relive the Marines. A colonel with his soldiers. U.S. soldiers salute as the American flag is hoisted. A soldier blows into a trumpet.
U.S. Army Air Force nurses land in China to help the American troops which are fighting the Japanese. They are welcomed by the Chinese nurses. The nurses climb into jeeps and are driven away. (World War II period).
Film starts showing Dwight D. Eisenhower's diploma as honor graduate of the Army Command and Staff School, in 1926. Image of Major Eisenhower (in civilian clothes) Narrator says he was assigned to France, to prepare a guide book on American battlefields in Europe. Image of Eisenhower as a member of General Douglas MacArthur's staff in the Philippines, where MacArthur was Commander-in-Chief of the Philippine army. Glimpse of headquarters building there. MacArthur in his office helping the Commonwealth of Philippines work out a plan for its military defense. Image of Lieutenant Colonel Eisenhower in 1939, serving as Executive Officer of the 15th Regiment, at Fort Lewis, Washington, View of the Regiment's Headquarters building. Scene shifts to 1940, showing German forces invading Holland and Belgium. German tanks are seen in action. German Junkers 87 Stuka dive bombers and Heinkel 111 bombers drop bombs. After passing of the Selective Service draft act, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen at a public ceremony on October 29, 1940, where Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew from a bowl the capsule containing the first draft number of World War 2. Views of Lt. Col. Eisenhower as Chief of Staff of the Army 3rd Division and later as Chief of Staff of the Ninth Corps. Next, he is seen as Chief of Staff to General Walter Kreuger, who in 1941 led the Third Army in the most realistic maneuvers held by American troops (The Louisiana maneuvers). Views of American troops engaged in those maneuvers. Image of Eisenhower as a Brigadier General. Views of the Pearl Harbor bombing during Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.
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