U.S. Marine 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment, in combat advancing towards Naha in Okinawa, during World War 2. Marines in front line posts. Smoke rises from side of hill during active battle. Marines move across hillside in the background. Rockets hit on hills. Rocket truck fires, hill in the background. Carriages on rocket truck as rockets are fired. Rocket trucks firing on hills in the background. Tanks deployed in valley fire against Japanese enemy. Explosion on top of ridge. Marines run forward through valley. Tanks advance and fire. Tanks and troops move up. Marines carry wounded casualty under fire. Shell explosion on side of ridge. Marines and tank advance through valley. Machine gunner fires from top of ridge. Tracers fire into enemy positions on hill. Marine observes fire through binoculars. Another Marine looks through binoculars at fire. Marine radios from the front line. Machine gun crew. Plane diving to explosion. Slate at end of clip states date and shot details.
U.S. troops fight the enemy in Manila, Philippines. U.S. 63rd Regiment troops battle toward Manila. Tanks fire on foothills in Manila. Troops advance through tall grass. Troops run in wooded area. Casualties' area treated. Mortar crew fires on enemy positions from top of hill. Troops advance behind tank in wooded area. Troopers fire rifles. Artillery shells bursts on hill. Trooper throws grenade on enemy position. U.S. 592nd Amphibious Engineers land on Carabao Island on April 16. Troops disembark from landing craft. Troops move along mountain road. Troops advance under cover of machine guns on mountain. Japanese caves blasted with TNT charges. Explosions on mountainside throw billows of smoke in air. U.S. 38th Division troops land at heavily fortified island of Fort Drum. (World War II; WWII;World War 2; WW2)
U.S. 305th Infantry, 77th Division mops up on the outskirts of Yuza, Okinawa. Lieutenant talks with a soldier pointing out enemy positions on hill. He walks to M-4 tank, climbs aboard and talks to man in turret. Smoke arising from attacks on hillside. Tanks advance through field. Several M-4 tanks parked on plateau. One tank shoots flame-thrower into possible Japanese positions. (World War II period).
From a series of clips on the making of the modern magazine called the "Dearborn Independent." Scenes of cities all over the world from which reports come in for the magazine. View of railroad station in Europe, possibly France. Palm trees and foliage somewhere in Africa. In Sendai, Japan, view of men, women, and children along street. Japanese family eats, joined by several anglo men. View in South America of a river bank with huts. Somewhere in the American south: A city street with horse-drawn carriage and people walking beside grand homes. View of editorial page of the magazine and close up of 'Mr Ford's Page' (referring to Henry Ford).
Panoramic view of rice paddies in Japan. Mountains in the background. Workers pull plants. Ox draws harrow over fields. Workers standing in water plant sprouts. Trees in the background. Japanese couple eats rice from a bowl with chopsticks.
Summary of World War II events and formation of the United Nations Organization. Soviet troops on Eastern Front of Europe fire artillery on German positions in 1944. Russian troops advance. German soldiers come out of buildings and surrender. Allied Forces land in France on D-Day. Allied troops and tanks fight Germans on streets in towns and villages of France. U.S. Army tanks fire at German positions. Various groups of German prisoners of war march along roads and are herded into prison camps operated by American and British forces. In 1945, the Allied leaders meet at Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula to discuss Allied military strategy in the final months of WWII. Leaders included British PM Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The meeting of U.S. and Soviet Russian troops at the Elbe River. German Nazi Swastika symbol blown up in explosion atop Zeppelinfeld Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. Aerial view of Berlin in ruins, as seen from low-flying aircraft flying directly over the Unter den Linden boulevard and the Brandenburg Gate. Wrecked and bombed German buildings seen everywhere. German officials signing surrender instrument at Rheims. U.S. President Harry S Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Potsdam Conference. U.S. Marines battling on beaches of Pacific Islands. Iconic shot of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima. Aerial view of bombed and ruined city of Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese surrender to MacArthur aboard the battleship USS Missouri. General MacArthur speaks aboard Missouri. Victory celebrations all across the world, with some scenes from earlier V-E Day (Victory in Europe) day in May 1945, including crowds celebrating in Paris, France, and some scenes on V-J Day (Victory over Japan day) in August 1945. Crowds on streets celebrate. Happy crowds jam streets. Delegates of Nations, among them Andrei Gromyko and Vyascheslav Molotov meet in San Francisco and create a United Nations organization. Truman arrives at signing of UN charter. Various delegates sign charter. U.S. troops disembark troop carrier ships at U.S. ports and are discharged after completing military service in World War 2. Group of U.S. Army soldiers exits a church (the Chapel at Fort Dix, New Jersey), waving their discharge papers in hand.
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