U.S. Navy personnel during the Battle of Midway of World War II. Army church service near war damaged tent area. Men gather in the area. War dead on stretchers during the burial services. Bugler blowing taps. Four men carrying a stretcher wrapped with flag. Stretchers holding war dead being carried aboard ship. Honor Guard firing rifles during the funeral services at sea. Japanese coffins being lowered over the side of patrol boat. PT boats underway. Coffin wrapped with flag in the foreground.
United States Navy Captain David S McCampbell in the Philippines during World War II. Captain McCampbell seated in the cockpit of the U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat aircraft named Minsi III. The Captain exits the aircraft. Men standing near the aircraft greet him. Captain McCampbell receives two Japanese flag stickers. An aircraft crewman places the flag stickers on the aircraft. Captain McCampbell in the cockpit gives 'thumbs up'.
Men fighting fire aboard U.S. Navy ships underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Anti aircraft fire at Japanese airplanes. U.S. Navy USS Santee CVE-29 aircraft carrier underway. Smoke rising up from the ship. Men fighting fire on the flight deck of U.S. Navy USS Suwanee aircraft carrier. An aircraft parked at the flight deck of the ship. Firemen trying to control the fire with the help of fire hoses.
A film on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Past events show German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addressing the German soldiers for the destruction of the cities. Corpses piled up in a Nazi concentration camp in Europe, victims of Nazi atrocities. Ropes, cords, and whip that had been used for torture of atrocity victims are seen hanging on a wall. Bodies of children dead following attacks by Japan. View of crematorium ovens in a Nazi camp, with bones in doorway of an open oven door. Bones piled up in a concentration camp. A crucifix of Christ standing amidst church ruins. Hitler youth seen playing drums at a Hitler youth rally. Close up of Adolf Hitler giving hail sign to a group. Close-up of uniform of a German Nazi officer and uniform of an Imperial Japanese officer. Image of German General Gerd von Rundstedt and slate on screen displaying some of his words spoken at the beginning of World War 2, advocating for mass destruction of Germany's enemies and systematic malnutrition and starvation of the oppostion. Views of starved infant and toddler age children in hospital beds under care of physicians following rescue and liberation. Several of the infants are crying.
Opening scene shows Adolf Hitler reviewing German troops on parade. German paratroopers jumping from Junkers Ju-52 aircraft. View from the ground of paratroopers descending from three Ju-52s. The Japanese attack on Pearl harbor, December 7, 1941. Heavy smoke rising from the leaning USS Arizona after she is hit by bombs. Newspaper headline reading "Pearl Harbor Bombed!" American soldiers leaving Camp Stoneman, are seen assembled on a pier at the Pittsburg California waterfront to board one of the ferries that would take them to Piers 15 and 45 on the Embarcadero in San Francisco. A sign at pier reading:"Through these portals pass the best damned soldiers in the West." Glimpses of soldiers firing howitzers in World War 2. Glimpses of the civilians supporting the war effort. Auto factory workers walking near a war production plant during shift change. A new army truck leaves a factory. War production workers assembling the turret on a Sherman tank. Guns and turrets being manufactured. Factory floor filled with new pursuit airplanes. A B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft taking off. Aerial view from bomber of its bombs exploding over enemy target below. Freight trains carrying United States military supplies. Supplies being loaded aboard a ship for the U.S. and Allies. The American battleship USS New Mexico firing a gun, and firing guns from triple turrets. Workers assembling aircraft engines in a war plant. A woman at work in a war materiel production plant. Gun camera images from warplane strafing a ground target. World War 2 Victory parade along 5th Avenue, New York City, in 1946. Washington Square triumphal arch in background. Various views of the parade. Laid off war plant workers looking for new jobs. Troops welcomed home: Ship carrying returning United States soldiers back home after the end of World War 2. Disabled soldiers and sailors, such as some who were wounded in battle and lost limbs like arms or legs, making their war to a Military Air Transport Service C-54 aircraft. More views of the disabled veterans who were injured during World War II.
United States Army 77th Infantry Division in Guam, Japan during the Guam Operations of World War II. Soldiers walk through bushes and smoke rising from a burning hut in the background. Dead Japanese in a hut. The soldiers advance in formation with weapons in hand.
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