Japanese troops walking along the "Road to Mandalay" in World War 2. A road sign shows 104 miles North to Mandalay and 326 miles South to Rangoon.Cattle in a field. Road clogged with Japanese troops, some leading or riding horses. Several soldiers on bicycles.Trucks line the side of road. An official proclamation posted in Japanese and Burmese.Roadside lined with Burmese people, some carrying parasols. They offer water to passing troops and for their animals. Japanese troops drinking from their newly filled canteens. Japanese soldiers interrogate a wounded British soldier sitting on the ground. Japanese infantry files past a line of Japanese tanks. They pass another road sign pointing 82 miles to Mandalay, 348 miles to Rangoon, and 6 miles to Hanza. Japanese troops struggle to move a truck over a by-pass around a bridge destroyed by the British. Japanese officers surveying the situation. A photographer takes pictures of Japanese tanks coming over a steep hill. Japanese gun crew secures a field artillery piece in place, with rope and stakes. They then load and fire it. Rounds exploding in the distance.Tanks and other military vehicles are parked clear of the artillery, as if waiting to proceed, after the bombardment. Truck pulling a large artillery piece and infantry pulling small artillery pieces, advance alongside parked tanks. Some of the infantrymen carry Japanese flags. Japanese tanks rolling into outskirts of Mandalay, near railroad yard, past trashed military equipment.
Maneuvers prior to D-Day landings in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland during World War II. Landing crafts heading for a beach as seen from USS Bayfield (APA-33). U.S. troops come onto the deck of USS Bayfield. An LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Mechanized) alongside USS Bayfield. The deck of USS Bayfield showing troops. A boat crewman secures a line from an accommodation ladder. The troops walk up the ladder.
A man secures a large steamer trunk. Two men place the trunk and a duffel bag onto a truck. Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's companion, on tarmac of airport and greets friends and family. She along with others boards a Condor four engine transport aircraft. ( FW 200A-0-S8 named the "Grenzmark"). Those aboard include her mother and father and sister. Aerial views are seen through the aircraft cabin windows.
Howard Hughes preparing for the maiden flight of the H-4 Hercules flying boat. Interior view of Hughes h-4 Hercules at a port in California, United States.Exterior views. A man walks on the wings of the plane. A man speaks into microphone at radio operators station..A man performs checks at the flight engineers position.. Howard Hughes walks past him. The flight engineers position shows instruments for monitoring essential information about each of the 8 engines. Howard Hughes in the cockpit and then returns to speak with flight engineer. speaks over a hand set in the cockpit and sets gyro compass and prepares to start engines.He "cracks the throttles. Another view of Howard Hughes on the dock looking over the lines securing the flying boat. Another vies of interior and cockpit of aircraft.
Testing of concrete Mulberry Caisson at Portsmouth harbor in England. A warehouse and a Caisson at the dock. Sailors and Chief )Project Officers ( CPOs) work on hausers, climb ladder and secure cable hausers. A tug tows the Caisson from the dock. These structures had the code name Phoenix
'In to the Gulf ' Highlights the role of United States Coast Guard in Operation Shield in Saudi Arabia. A boat underway at sea and seagulls fly. Planes land and United States Coast Guard units arrive for Operation Shield. A map of Saudi Arabia shows the places of arrival of American Coast Guards. Men look at a map and plan the strategy for the operation. Soldiers practice at a firing range. Men dressed in combat uniforms with gas masks. Coast Guards look after operation load out in United States to ensure security of material going out of port. Captain Paul Ibsen, Load out Coordinator explains the importance of load out operations. FS1 Rich Whitney moves about on board a vessel and looks at loaded materials.
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