Archival Film Footage of World War I and II Available on Footage Farm Masters
 
 

220306                      1918               07.44.01 - 07.50.48           
World War One WWI - Sign in French re Peace -  War is Over, Armistice signed. Crowds celebrating waving flags. Crowds with flags on balcony of Georgette Hotel ? More celebrating crowds. Group of children run towards camera  - more celebrations and flag waving. Conga line formed on streets - troops and civilians celebrate. French soldiers - one in wheelchair  with girls celebrating. Black man playing trumpet. Girl gives flowers to soldier. Top shot celebrating crowds. Horse drawn carriage. 07.48.50 Wounded taken out of ambulance on stretchers. Steam train pulls out of station. Side shot of train showing saloons and dining car.
                       
220466                      1914 ­ 1918             02.11.33 - 02.23.35
World War One material ( WWI )
Line of refugees in horse drawn carts. Polish troops marching down road - firing artillery - running across field. Troops in truck which is flying US and Polish flags. Soldiers milling around in unidentified village, injured men brought in on horse drawn carts.
02.13.10 Japanese troops firing rifles, manoeuvres, Japanese officers watching exercises, firing artillery, running across field. Japanese women spectators
02.14.20 Panama Canal - ships at anchor, dredger.
02.15.13 Title " On the Carso - The Italian army which has heroically driven Austrians from their Alpine strongholds prepares to renew the attack "  Shows troops relaxing - marching down road. Heavy machinery digging trench? General Cadorna .
02.16.20 British troops marching - troops  in trench - firing mortars.
02.17.05 Italian troops in trenches. Firing big gun. Inspecting damaged bridge. Soldiers in bomb damaged town.
02.18.16 Paris demonstrations - film deteriorated. Man arrested.
02.19.00 Moroccan infantry march along rocky road - pack animals - men on horseback crossing river. Troops on foot cross river. Troops, some mounted parade past officer on horseback. Top shot encampment
02.21.15 Title " Laredo, Mexico - A contingent of Carranza's troops is on hand to guard America's new Ambassador H.F. Fletcher on his arrival - shots troops at attention by railway train.  Steam train - various dignitaries - greetings.
02.22.04 Serbian troops in Salonika, marching along road
02.22.50 Greek Cavalry on horseback - troops perform acrobatics on horseback - standing in saddles. Training horses on lunge

 

 

220462                      1914 - 1919 + 1930s         08.26.10 - 08.38.00           
World War One and short clip Spanish Civil War ?
Pre WWI Germany - funeral procession - Kaiser - politicians - German army  - Headlines New York Journal. Kaiser defies Tsar - Hands Off or War. Tsar Nicholas and family down steps and into coach. Russian soldiers march past . Newspaper headlines France Enters War. Mounted troops and troops marching across field. Newspaper headlines German Armies Sweep France. Troops in kilts march down road. Germans marching. Trench fighting and explosions ( recreations ? ) Tank - aircraft going down - battleship sinking, sailors rescued from water. Submarine warfare - torpedo - ship sinking .
08.30.17 - 1917 America enters war -  signed declaration of war - Woodrow Wilson at desk. American troops board transport ships - waving as leaving dock - ship along with New York skyline in background. American troops marching on field - American flag -  Battle scenes - firing artillery - trench warfare - explosions
08.31.52 - 1918 Troops celebrate armistice - American flag. Prisoners of War ? Celebrations in streets - soldier kisses young woman. Mass celebrations - symbolic coffin carried by crowd.  Crowds celebrating - group n lorry with effigy of German, beating him over head. VIPs into car. Tickertape - troops march down avenue in parade. Celebrations in Paris - VIPs in coaches down crowd lined Champs Elysee. Versailles, Peace conference in room of mirrors .
08.34.30 Historical recreations re signing of  American independence - paintings of early US personages - document Declaration of Independence. Statue Abraham Lincoln - memorial. Veterans parade. Veteran lays flowers on bed ? Confederate veterans, some in wheelchairs sit round campfire, waving confederate flags.
08.37.22 War scenes   Spanish Civil War - child pulled out of rubble - bodies. Child crying - refugees many children, two who have lost legs.

 

220435                                  1918               00.15.53 - 00.22.52           
World War One Armistice Celebrations
Soldiers kissing girls from back of truck. Celebrations as crowds parade down French street.
President Wilson leaves the White House, FDR beside car -   rides down Pennsylvania Ave. Shows parade units and crowds in Washington, D. C - floats, Wilson and wife watching. Parade with mock coffin of Kaiser. Black man in beret leads marching band. Crowd on lawn outside White House.
00.18.46 New York City massed crowd waving to camera. Crowds in front of Wall Street stock exchange listening to unidentified man. Jewish man blows horn. Smiling girls in fancy dress. The Kaiser is hanged in effigy in New York City in front of City Hall. Parade through crowd and tickertape. Anti German effigies. Ticker-tape from buildings. Frantic cheering crowds. Wilson reading newspaper. 
 
 
220569                      1914 - 1918             17.20.46 - 17.28.58           
World War One -
Big guns moved through sand of desert - British troops ride on gun carriages.  Indian troops with horses through desert.
17.22.42 In the deserts of Mesopotamia, a spy of the Sultan has fallen into British hands, man questioned by man wearing Arab dress watched by British.
17.23.37 Allenby's troops move out from Jerusalem. Camel train through desert. Title - The retreating foe has committed the greatest crime of the desert, destroyed a well. British troops standing around destroyed well.
17.24.33 Title - Shining in the sun, mosque and minaret rise in a land freed from the bondage of the Turk.  Shots of buildings - British troops with camels in town.
17.25.30 Title - Overhead monster aircraft help to keep watch.  AV ships at sea.  Dirigibles.
17.26.58   Allenby with French? officer. Gathering of officers. Reception of religious and civic dignitaries following  Allenby's entry into Jerusalem.
17.29.02 British troops in trenches

 

 

220569                      1914 ­ 1918             17.29.02  - 17.36.17          
World War One -  Flanders
British troops in trenches. Group of officers. Big gun stuck in mud of Flanders. British artillery - firing guns of various sizes, some under camouflage
17.35.00 Guns and artillery on the road moving forward. Men in trenches.
17.35.25 The fatal shot -  long shot cavalry hit by artillery.

 

220297                      1918                           19.04.35 - 19.19.19           
WWI Flashes of Action segments       
First aid in the front lines. Wounded of the 30th Division between Villeret and Bellicourt - September 29th 1918 - Wounded treated in trenches - medics
19.05.23 Machine gunning the enemy 1st Division at Exermont October 4th 1918 - reducing a machine gun nest with rifles and hand grenades - grenade thrown - looking out over trench with binoculars.
19.06.21 128th Infantry 32nd Division at Austerlitz Woods Alsace, Germany 5th June 1918 - gas attack by the enemy - troops put on masks - explosions - firing gas - using rifles from trenches
19.07.31 Shelling of Tiaucourt, France by the Germans 26th September 1918 - explosions over town
19.08.20 German shells bursting in Rambucourt, France during the German attack on Seicheprey,
April 20,1918 Commander in Chief decorates private on the battlefield.
19.08.55 German plane about to attack an American  balloon from which the observer drops in a parachute Near Montfaucon October 3rd 1918
19.09.36 Anti aircraft guns put up a protesting barrage arround the balloon - exploding shells - artillery - balloon set on fire - plane shot down - big guns firing
19.12.11 Tanks advance - artillery firing
19.14.53 Squadron of US bi-planes led by Lt. Quentin Roosevelt
19.15.46 Captain Eddie Rickenbacker flies over the lines - bombing German lines - night firing

 

 
LN 501-067              1916-1918               11.05.13 - 11.13.40           
WWI - France - Catholic Service - Trenches - Pershing   
Catholic service outdoors w/ priest blessing soldiers as others watch. Trenches  -  troops toward camera. Red cross men in front of cave.  Trench & troops pointing. Looking out of trench, putting on gas masks.  Men with pack horse by motorcycle, others eating.  Rooster in mailbox as soldiers get mail.  Field kitchen serving. Men in trench carrying ?.  Inspecting bullet holes in car.  Dog & kitten fighting.  Pershing past camera at dock.  Reviewing troops w/ other officers.  Large camouflaged guns. German POWs behind barbed wire, MCU. Review in large field. Troops march past camera to front. Pershing & others at review. Map smoking & American Flag across.
 
LN 501-067              1916-1918               11.13.42 - 11.22.30           
WWI Recruits - Training - Naval Ships - Pershing in France       
Pan over barracks & wagons. Navy Yard, construction & launching of 4 masted ship; Armament production - Men working on large guns, crane moving them. Barrels for ships guns.  Shells manufactured.  Stirring draft capsules & drawing
11.15.44  Draftees arriving. Crowd of soldiers sitting around platform. Field kitchens serving, eating.  March along road. Calisthenics; bayonet drill; inspection. Trucks. Planes t.o.  (upside down aerial). Battleship firing.  Navy or coast guard calisthenics & gun training. Ships firing.  Pershing & others reviewing French troops. Huge crowd outside station & Pershing leaving in motorcade.  Troops off ship & march through town.  Military parade
 
 
LN 501-067              1916-1918               11.22.35 - 11.32.18           
WWI - France - Advancing & Construction  
Rocky countryside & wounded removed. Troops moving up & back.  Pan over woods.  Putting up sign re Bethincourt - Play the Game Boys, Obey the M.P.  Digging for bridge or road building & moving large guns & trucks.  Clearing ruins of buildings & bridge.  Small tank, advancing troops & pack animals, long line mule train.  Breaking camp.  Through mud.  Many troops past ruins.
 
220448                      1917 - 1918             15.16.40 - 15.21.29           
World War One - Newspaper Headlines - Celebrations
Top shot Street crowded with people; some seen moving with a large flag. crowd in square; street car moving through crowd in square followed by panel truck . Statue / monument  crowded with people waving small flags. Crowd -  people seen looking up towards camera  some hold children on their shoulders others hold small US flag.
Parade in progress, coffin carried with effigy. Top shot group of women, possibly nurses or nuns, in white clothing  standing in the midst of large crowd.  CU Large statue in square is crowded with people, buildings seen in BG; small picture of Statue of Liberty  superimposed in LFG.
Top shot Parade in progress; people seen carrying flags and banners, huge crowd watching. CU Faces of people in crowd.  CU Men with faces painted black, carrying a coffin on their shoulders through crowd.
CU Flags waving high above street -  street cars seen below moving through crowd, ticker tape falling from buildings on both sides of street.
(15.19.26) LS Biplane in flight over buildings.  CU Side view, Ford car, World War I vintage. CU Photograph of open touring car  date 1908 superimposed  zoom in on photograph.
MCU PAN view of picture of 1915 sedan auto.
(15.20.02) CU Map of Europe with German Iron Cross superimposed, filling screen like an explosion. Newspapers running off presses. CU Headline on paper reading, "Arch Duke Assassinated."  CU Headline reading, "Germany Declares War; All Europe is in Arms." CU Headline reading, "Germany Invades France", superimposed over German troops marching in BG.  CU Headline, "French Resist at  Marne."  Headline, "Lusitania Sunk" with  picture of the  ship.  Newspaper presses running.  Printer reading paper with headlines "U.S. Declares War."  CU An "EXTRA" Paper reading, "U.S. At War."  CU Headline, "U.S. Troops Land in France."  CU Billboard sign, "Beat Back the Hun  With Liberty Bonds " superimposed over picture of troops marching in BG.
CU Shipyard - ships under construction.  MS Destroyer  underway.
 
 
220453                      1914 - 1918             00.14.45 - 00.30.26            Two reels
Occupation - France WW1    
Small French village in countryside, pan across fields. Dirt road. German troops marching & convoy with horses through village.
Muddy landscape. Soldiers open camouflaged trap and gun inside fires. Barren landscape. German trenches  with large guns or canons firing, soldiers  blocking noise with hands on ears, on telephone.   Firing cannon, smoke coming out.
In field with anti-aircraft gun.
Other trenches. Soldiers bring in body on stretcher.  Soldiers waiting.
Pulling wire fence. Barbed wire. Camouflaging canon. Soldier in trench, only head visible, surveys landscape. Waiting and phoning. Rearranging camouflage. Fixing telephone.
Pulling wire across field on snowy day. Horse taken out of makeshift stable.  Soldiers on trolley down railway tracks laughing. Pan soldiers at camp, posing, messing about etc. Officers talking.
German camp with huts on hillside.
 
 
220462                      1918 - 1919             08.00.00 - 08.10.10           
Medical Department - Field Hospitals in the Intermediate and Advanced Zones - World War One
Shows receiving tents at Bonvillers; 18th Info gas casualties with bandaged eyes arriving at Wendeuil-Caply taken from ambulances on stretchers; large group of casualities with bandaged eyes in tent - gas patients being treated - classic shot patients walking in line - Medic treats wounded mans back Church, used as a hospital, at Neuvilly - hundreds of wounded men laying on floor. Troops folding blankets etc. Women helping; Red Cross workers distributing candy and cigarettes at Bezu; ambulances arriving at Bonvillers; and American nurses at the front.

 

 

220462                      1914 - 1919 + 1930s         08.26.10 - 08.38.00           
World War One and short clip Spanish Civil War ?
Pre WWI Germany - funeral procession - Kaiser - politicians - German army  - Headlines New York Journal. Kaiser defies Tsar - Hands Off or War. Tsar Nicholas and family down steps and into coach. Russian soldiers march past . Newspaper headlines France Enters War. Mounted troops and troops marching across field. Newspaper headlines German Armies Sweep France. Troops in kilts march down road. Germans marching. Trench fighting and explosions ( recreations ? ) Tank - aircraft going down -battleship sinking, sailors rescued from water. Submarine warfare - torpedo - ship sinking .
08.30.17 - 1917 America enters war -  signed declaration of war - Woodrow Wilson at desk. American troops board transport ships - waving as leaving dock - ship along with New York skyline in background. American troops marching on field - American flag -  Battle scenes - firing artillery - trench warfare - explosions
08.31.52 - 1918 Troops celebrate armisitice - American flag. Prisoners of War ? Celebrations in streets - soldier kisses young woman. Mass celebrations - symbolic coffin carried by crowd.  Crowds celebrating - group n lorry with effigy of German, beating him over head. VIPs into car. Tickertape - troops march down avenue in parade. Celebrations in Paris - VIPs in coaches down crowd lined Champs Elysee. Versailles, Peace conference in room of mirrors .
08.34.30 Historical recreations re signing of  American independence - paintings of early US personages - document Declaration of Independence. Statue Abraham Lincoln - memorial. Veterans parade. Veteran lays flowers on bed ? Confederate veterans, some in wheelchars sit round campfire, waving confederate flags.
08.37.22 War scenes   Spanish Civil War - child pulled out of rubble - bodies. Child crying - refugees many children, two who have lost legs.
 

220518                      1918                           13.24.06 - 13.31.33           
The Aisne Marne Operations - July 18th to August 6th 1918         
Shows the countryside around Cierges, including captured German defensive positions, military and civilian traffic on roads, and a church used as a German machine gun post; 111th Infantry  units resting at Crezeney; 119th F.A. troops firing 75's  big guns - artillery  near Mont St. Martin; 103rd Engineers. building pontoon bridge across the Marne at Chateau-Thierry; an 111th Inf. patrol returning to Coulonges; resting in ruins of church ? chandelier seems to hang in mid air in ruins. Line of parked Ambulances and aid men in Chateau-Thierry; and French officers at the Chateau Chenye, headquarters of the 3rd Army Corps.
Excellent quality
 
World War II

 

220274                                  1945               04:44:26 - 04:51:16           
Germany Gives Up!    
Truman at desk speaks announcing German surrender. 
04:45:11  Crowds in streets cheering; Wall street & ticker-tape.  Packed Times Square & people waving flags.
04:45:39  Heavy devastation in Europe.  Bodies; Prisoners.  Prison camp.   04:46:02 Hitler & marching Naziis in various situation.   04:46:16  Goosestepping.  Tank traps.  Hitler & troops into ??  Hitler speaking to huge crowd.  German troops advancing.   Siegried (?) lne w/ anti-tank stones.  Hitler planning, into Austria or Czech.  Troops greeted.  Hitler speaking & more advancing.
04:47:12  POV along road of ruined equipment.  Field of German prisoners.   04:47:5?  Hitler at French surrender. German bombers.  Aerial of burning London. 
04:48:22  FDR signing bill.  England & trains of supplies.  Blacks moving boxes from ships. Planes & supplies for D-Day.  D-Day montage & beachhead; Dead German by roadside. 
04:49:20  Tanks into Paris; crowds & aerials over Arc d' Triumph.  Heavy bombing raids, strafing airfiled & RR w/ explosions. Artillery firing;
04:50:20  GIs crossing Rhine.  Dead in concentration camps.  Germans running to surrender; young boy crying. Swastika burning.   Celebrations; VE day; WWII compilation.  Europe.
World War II compilation
 
 
220441                      1941               09.16.37 - 09:26:58           
World at War, The - Pt 1 of   World at War, The - Pt 1 of
Roller stating that all film material is authentic and unstaged
Bombers, Pearl Harbor scenes w/ planes on field, ships in harbour, sun through clouds, bombers overhead.  Aftermath & smoke.  Ships through harbour. Wreckage from water. Hull, wreckage, FDR ( Roosevelt ) before Congress declaration of War. Japanese ambassador; men & crowd listening to radio in streets.  CUs opposing war.  Wilkie, others against war. Interiors of congress.  Students picketing White House.  Others picketing pickets.  Women demonstrate against war.  Brown Shirts and American Bund meeting with marching members beneath George Washington banner.  Dissenter disrupts Kuhn speech in Madison Square Garden.  Labour picketing and fighting outside factories.  Strikers hosed down.  Idle plants.
(09:26:05) Ships on fire. People at docks boarding ships, MCU of docks. Manchurian army marching past camera. Regiment at attention.  CU of officer. Chin Hsie station, train moving past camera. Army men on horseback. Aerial view of train station. Men collecting hay. Army marching on top of hay, past camera. Mounted regiment, riding across screen. MCU of mounted regiment with Japanese flag. Regiment marching.
 
220441                      1930's            08.56.05 - 09.00.36           
World At War  R2 Part 1 of 2            Chinese running & bodies after bombing by Japan. League of Nations ext.  Int. debate. Jap ships firing on China & marching into Shanghai to flag raising. Moving into Mongolia.  League meeting exit.  Japan further into China. Running, ladders up to wall, pilots into dive-bombers, bombing. fires.  Chinese troops along Great Wall.  (08.59.07) Japan scenics. Baseball diamond & team marching. Japanese Navy, sailors, ships, planes.
Jap tanks down street in large manoeuvre. Troops, emperor reviewing (multi).  Italy Fascists marching.  Mussolini speaking from balcony.  Air Force.  Ethiopian forces vs Italian airforce. Explosions.  Artillery.  Stadium w/ Japanese flags waving; Italians & Japanese military & speakers together. Emperor reviewing, Hitler into Austria.  (good shots)
 
220441                      1930's            09.00.37 - 09.03.50           
World At War  R2 Part 2 of 2            Jap tanks down street in large manoeuvre. Troops, emperor  Hirohito reviewing (multi).  Italy Fascists marching.  Mussolini speaking from balcony.  Air Force.  Haile Selassie - Ethiopian forces vs Italian airforce. Explosions.  Artillery.  Stadium w/ Japanese flags waving; Italians & Japanese military & speakers together. Emperor reviewing, Hitler into Austria.  (good shots) ( anschluss )
 
 
220440                      1930's - 1940's       07.51.03 - 08.00.30           
World At War, R3      
German & Italian troops in Spanish civil war fighting.  Wounded & dead bodies.  Franco banner & reviewing troops. Hirohito -  Japanese & goose-stepping troops.  Munich pact & signing with Chamberlain and Mussolini, Daladier . Mussolini on balcony at night w/ crowd.
07.53.22  Germans into Sudetenland, cheering people & old woman throwing out flowers.  Military band on trucks past camera.  Troops through crowds.  Nazis into Prague.
07.54.26  Landing in Albania. Hitler at podium calling names of countries in answer to Roosevelt's appeal for peace. Hitler at Berchtesgaden w/ Goering. Good shots in offices at Berchtesgaden in front of huge window. 07.55.55  Ribbentrop in Moscow w/ Molotov.
Newspaper  Headlines.  Hitler reviewing troops.  Polish planes, tanks, & guns reviewed - military parade. Loading German bombs, fuel, shells; take off & over, in formation. POV in air. Bombing of Poland  -  Flak, bombing, bomb craters, burned planes on ground. Stukkas take off & in flight; dive bombing POV. Railway tracks bombed. Wreckage inspected by Nazis. German battleship firing.
 
 
220443                      1939 / 1940             11.07.05 - 11.17.18           
World at War Reel 4   World at War Reel 4
Reel 4 shows war-torn Poland: Warsaw is bombed, evacuated, and burned.  Guns firing - tanks - aircraft. Civilian refugees - good.  Dead men and horses. Burying the dead. Wrecked military and civilian transport. Aerial views bombing of Warsaw , excellent low level shots smoking buildings. Shots from reconnaissance plane.  Ground views - German soldiers guarding Polish civilians - forced labour army. Women queuing for water.
11.09.51 Hitler reviews his troops. Soldiers on horseback - goose-stepping - military parade. 11.10.37 Winter 1939 / 1940  Shots from the Battle of the Atlantic - ship sinking. Sailors in lifeboat 11.11.01 French troops man the Maginot Line. Underground tunnels - troops on underground railcars.  Neutral Norway, street scenes. Nazi troops invade Norway  - harbours with merchant ships in Norway.
11.12.02 May 9th 1940 invasion Holland, and Belgium are invaded. Tanks - military movements past Maginot Line. Troops on transport trains. Short shots Belgium and Luxembourg . German films made by  order of Goebbels as propaganda to show the power of the army: big guns, mechanised equipment, paratroops, etc. no German casualties . Holland German troops fighting on streets - crossing dykes - using flame throwers - explosions. Formations of aircraft -  German paratroops and equipment parachute into Holland.  Tanks, bombers, big guns - Germans advance rapidly into Holland.  Towns and villages burning.  Dutch refugees  including nuns and children clog roads; Rotterdam burns.
11.15.56 German plane dropping stick bombs. Explosions - ship burning in harbour. Rotterdam in flames. Germans troops in silhouette against flames. Aerial views from reconnaissance plane of devastation in Rotterdam.  Dutch soldier with White flag of surrender walking down middle of road.
 
 
220328                                  1944               09.46.30 - 09.56.09           
Brought To Action - Pacific War Part One     Brought To Action - Pacific War - Philippines -  Leyte
Pearl Harbor - US Navy Department HQ Washington - reconstruction of delivery of telegram from Admiral Nimitz to James Forrestal, Chief of Naval Operations  - CU message On 24th October the enemy forces were brought to action. The second Battle of the Phillipines had begun.
US Naval Third fleet at sea. Crew briefings -  pilots board planes - take off from aircraft carriers. Planes flying in formation - strafing enemy shipping. Animated map Paramushiro - Mindanao - Ryukyu - Manila - Formosa intercut with short battle scenes.
09.48.54 US aircraft flying in formation - fleet en route to Philippines, scenes below decks. Map showing destination - Leyte. Ships firing landing craft - General Macarthur walking onto beach. Newspaper headlines, Philippines invaded. Scenes on board ships, men looking for enemy planes through binoculars.  Ships signaller and signal flags. Japanese naval ships. Various Japanese  officers reading orders to men - English subtitles on screen. Banzai.
09.51.45 US troops on Pacific island - supply dump on beach. Japanese animated map using shadow of pincers over Philippines. Periscope of submarine - US submarine surfaces and dives after spotting Japanese fleet - interior US sub, man looking through periscope at Japanese ship. US aircraft over. US Aircraft carrier  - planes take off. American destroyers - night shots barrage. Hands of US officer drawing on map plans of approach to Leyte.  Five US battleships sailing in convoy. Below decks on battleship, loading big guns, radio room, firing  - night shots barrage - daylight shots Japanese ship burning - smoke pall.
 
 
220434                                  1944               11.32.27 - 11.48.50           
The War Speeds Up ( Two Reels ) - includes V1 rockets on London
On the need for increased production of war material.
Shows the manufacture and combat use of artillery pieces, B-17 aeroplanes, tanks, and trucks.
Various explosions including planes, various guns fired (damaged film). Tanks, boat landing, parachutes dropped. US flag hoisted on tree, medieval towers and other buildings. German soldiers captured. CU soldier with wounded face. Newspaper headlines. US carrier and planes at Guadalcanal. Guam battle. Military lorry convoy. US troops with tanks in Pacific and Europe (Italy? France?), Aerial shots military convoys in European countryside moving forward.
Big guns: 105, 155, 240 used in combat/ firing. Pile of shells and bullets, big bomb conveyed / bomb trolley  -  bombs dropped from planes. Bulldozers clearing rubble. Big trucks with troops on board moving up to front line. Montage tyres.
Titles with names of battles won by US: Guadalcanal, Oran, Casablanca, Attu, Sicily, Salerno, Naples, Bougainville etc.
Aerial shot submarine, planes. tanks. Shows manufacture: Pan across enormous piles of war material stored, military vehicles incl. ambulances. Tank. Armament factory production line and storage. Tanks in field in combat. Aerial shot tank convoy. graphics of production needs.
Gens. Eisenhower (Ike), Bradley, Patton, Spaatz, Clark, MacArthur, and Montgomery and Adm. Halsey are shows in the field.
Goebbels. Hitler & Goering review German troops, Germans in combat (very grainy). dead German soldier being shot.
Pacific ground combat.
V1 rocket flying over England.  Destruction and rubble in England including church, wounded civilians evacuated, casualties. 
Wounded soldiers on battlefield. Medics treating.
Rendova. Bodies lined up in field, wrapped in US flag, troops  mourning. Bodies on beaches.
Soldiers eating and smoking outdoors. Pan along line of tired looking troops.
Wreckage of US boats on beach and other destroyed or abandoned artillery and military equipment.
Firing guns in forest in Normandy near St Lo. Tank through thicket, attack. Entering St Lo. Body of Major on rubble of St Lo church in US flag.  Troops moving forward.

 

 

LN 501-118              1944               09.08.02 - 09.12.25           
WWII, 1st Cavalry Division, Leyte Operation
02Oct44.  Tank moves into village & greeted by Filipino civilians, waving flags & arms.  GIs advance with rifles; lying behind machine gun; medics rush wounded on stretcher past camera.  Smoking with locales. Mac looking while 2 star Gen points & talks.  MacArthur  under palms in MCU, others toward camera shakes hands w/ Gen Mudge.  Natives of Tacloban wave US flags.  Street scenes 21Oct44. Shakey camera as GIs run forward looking for snipers. Fire burning in background; US tanks in foreground of destroyed village, Tacloban (?).  GIs search huts, talk w/ natives.  Spotter plane over.
Pacific War
 
220433                      1942- 1944              10.01.00 - 10.11.03           
The Stilwell Road, Part 1 of 3            (also called Ledo Road)
Story of the China-Burma Indian front WW2.
Aerial shot over mountains. Animated map land  Burma Road to China. Aerial shots Burma Road. Chinese workers building Burma Road, hammering on rocks by mountain. Snowy mountain road with camels, then trucks carrying ammunition. Animated map, pans West to show land bridge of Iran, arrows point to battles of El Alamein and Stalingrad. Pan East to Asia, (animated map) Japanese destruction of Burma Road.
10.04.41 MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz. troops marching. Japanese planes bombing. General Alexander. general Stilwell with Chinese troops looking at map.
Map of Asia shows Japanese offensive. Volunteer pilots Flying Tigers and RAF taking off. Japanese offensive on Rangoon, buildings bombed, top shot Burmese on top of moving train, palm trees burning.
Rangoon after fall, destroyed buildings and empty streets, Buddha statues amidst rubble. Japanese troops on way to Mandalay - road sign Rangoon, Mandalay, Hanza.
10.06.19 Japanese offensive on Mandalay, India, very high aerial shots of city bombed, explosions on ground, Indian  children running and man carrying child. Japanese war planes. Burning buildings. Indian people on overcrowded train. Animated map shows Japanese progress and cutting off of Burma Road.
10.06.58 Indian refugees on road and Alexander's' troops retreating.
Allied Demolition squads destroying equipment and supplies, running off to row boats, burning buildings behind. Burmese refugees on road, some with military uniforms. European or US soldiers retreating, crossing rivers and mud on way to India.
10.08.17 India, refugees and troops at camp, wounded carried on stretcher, Stilwell says they ought to go back and retake Burma.
Map India, Burma, China, Indochina and Thailand. Burma, Buddhist temples, street scenes, woman smoking shilom, tribal Giraffe woman. Aerial shot Burmese . Allied troops through Burmese forest with mules. Turbulent river with raft, mountains, Himalayas, wind storm, swamp. Soldiers hacking through jungle with machete. Stilwell and other study map. CBI (China-Burma-India) military badge. Allied Chinese troops, carried on plane. Training station at Rangar, India, cleaning guns, shooting practice, crawling on ground.   
 
220336                                  1940's            21.17.28 - 21.33.33            Two reels
Army Air Forces - Pacific     Army Air Forces - Pacific - Atomic bomb section film shrunk.
Army Air Forces contribution to victory in Pacific
Military, Gen. Arnold presents film at desk and flogs war bonds.
Planes flying over land.  ?? Islands.
Strafing from plane. Coffin with US flag put into ground. Bombs over China, very mountainous landscape. cemetery with anonymous soldiers' graves and crosses. Wake Island bombed, good aerial shot entire island. Cemetery. US troops  through forest in Burma. Cemetery. Other island bombed near Philippines. Cemetery. Guns pulled through water, ammunition  and weapons lugged through mud. Plane in snow, emptying load of weapons and ammunition in cold and ice. transport of supplies: delivered and shipped: boxes and containers out of trucks, in warehouses, into planes, piled in fields in various locations round the world.
21.22.08 several shots from plane strafing flying down twds ground, attacking at different targets, Burma?
Explains importance of air-ground support. Bombing, explosions.
21.23.23 emergency hospital in jungle, US general watches as Chinese casualty carried on stretchers. Wounded tended to by US doctor and some Burmese staff. Wounded smoking with bandage round head.
Arrival of supplies once base has been established on Saipan  island: View of island  from ship, ship with "205" on side , deck  full of troops. Truck drives advances through water with gun. Troops on beach. Rows of wounded on deck for evacuation, some into planes, takeoff. Destroyed Japanese bases, damaged planes, buildings, rubble. Bulldozers through rubble to rebuild enemy bases. Landing strip, B-29 plane landing.
21.26.14
Aerial views Iwo Jima. Night battle in sky. US planes on ground burning at night. Destroyed planes on Iwo Jima, corpses. US planes on airstrip after US takeover. Soldiers inside plane strafing.
21.27.56 Borneo aerial view, ground bombed.
21.28.25 Aerial view Philippines, ground bombed. Damaged Japanese air bases. Destroyed planes on ground. General MacArthur  with troops into city.
21.29.28 Okinawa. Cemetery with crosses marked "unknown". Grave of Ernie Pyle of 77th Infantry Division. General Doolittle talking with other military. Generals Arnold, Kenney and Whitehead.
21.30.19 Bombers nearing Tokyo. Mount Fujiyama amidst clouds. Bomb drop opens. Very high aerial view Tokyo bombed. Night bombing. Other aerial views Japanese cities bombed.
B29 flying to Hiroshima (picture jumps and sound is damaged over this section). Atomic cloud.  Plane flies off.