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Fleet returns to Portsmouth. Battle ships of the Fleet returning to Portsmouth from manoeuvres. In the foreground is H.M.S. Warspite.

U.S. Army nurses tends baby born in Italian battle area. A U.S. Army nurse uses an eye dropper to feed a baby born in the battle area of Italy, while the baby's Italian mother looks on. The baby was delivered by U.S. Army doctors, and its crib was made from a box in which Army rations had been packed.

U.S. Marines charge Japanese pillbox in victorious Gilbert Islands Battle. U.S. Marines charge through Japanese crossfire to storm a heavily reinforced enemy pillbox on Tarawa during a bitter three-day battle that resulted in the death or capture of 5.7000 Japanese soldiers and placed the South Pacific Gilbert Islands in Allied hands. Capture of the Gilberts was an important step in the Allied operations ...

U.S. troops battle Nazis at Roer River. Soldiers of the First U.S. Army, who had been taking cover during a Nazi artillery barrage, run to set up mortars for a return assault against the enemy entrenched on the east bank of the Roer River across from Echtz. The American troops are holding positions on the west river bank, where Echtz was seized December 11, 1944.

American troops and armor surge to Belgian battle sector. U.S. Troops and armored vehicles fill a street on the outskirts of Malmedy, as American reinforcements surge to the front to halt the Nazi offensive begung December 16, 1944. Dispatches from Supreme Headquarters covering activities up to December 26 reported U.S. troops had retaken the towns of Cincy and Celles, the extreme western points of ...

Battle scenes of the Eighth Army advance. German prisoners coming in to our lines. In the background transport is following on the heels of the advancing infantry.

NEW U.S. ARMY NIGHT FIGHTERS READY FOR BATTLE. U.S. Army Black Widows, the first aircraft of the war designed specifically as night fighters, stand in line at a U.S. West Coast airfield, ready to join the air against Germany and Japan. The planes are equipped with two engines, have deadly firepower, and are the largest and most powerful pursuit craft ever built. Capable of high speed, they retain, ...

The battle for St. Lo, Normandy. Smoke rises from hits scored by U.S. dive bombers as they soften up German positions in the St. Lo area in Normandy. The bitterly defended Nazi communication center of St. Lo fell to U.S. troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force July 18, 1944.