 United States Navy's famous Task Force 58 head to Iwo Jima, British and American carriers and capital ships close in on the Ryukyu Islands, stepping stones to Japan and the China coast. Carrier planes go aloft to begin the nine-day bombardment preceding the invasion of Okinawa. Large strategic island in the Ryukyu chain, 325 miles from the Japanese mainland. At the range of enemy land-based aircraft, the fleet is covered by a constant air umbrella, while fighters demolish Japanese ships. Around solitary survivors of group attempts to penetrate United States air cover, 90% are shot down. Back against Japan, enemy held China or Formosa. Air attacks leading to landings at Okinawa are unrelenting. Throughout the entire 800-mile island chain, bombers and fighters attack in constant waves. Our major airfields are shot up. Explosive rockets smash heavier targets. Phibious invasion of Okinawa, an operation that cuts in half the distance between American forces and Japan. Okinawa's airstrips and natural harbors, its central strategic position, are now well within our grasp. Piley-inflammable jelly gasoline incendiaries of this type have already been used against Japanese installations. The bomb hurtles down to scatter over a wide area and burn at 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. United States Marines on Peleliu Island's Japanese cave positions on a vital ridge are proving one of the war's effective agents of military destruction. Representatives of the French and United States Navy and Merchant Marine officiate. With French crews under French command, the ships will operate within the inter-allied supply pool. The American flag comes down. This ship joins the mighty Allied shipping fleet. Fort News, Virginia, the largest warship in the world, the new Navy aircraft carrier USS Midway. Naval aviator hero Lieutenant George Gay watches the Midway's sponsor christen the mighty carrier. The Midway, named after the first great Pacific victory of this war, can base a fleet of 80 planes on its deck. It is a significant addition to the Navy. City of Svi-Brookin in the Tsar is pounded by United States 7th Army weapons, including rocket-firing tanks. On the road to Berlin, heads with his advanced units. City of Svi-Brookin, largest in the Tsar Basin, is taken by men of the 7th Division of the 7th Army. Lashing out through the Siegfried Line, the 7th Army struck north for a juncture with the 3rd Army and the complete destruction of German forces in the Tsar. In this building in 1935, the result of the Tsar plebiscite, bringing the Tsar under German control, was announced by Adolf Hitler, which is near Ramaggen. Seen of the dramatic first crossing of the Rhine, carry increasing loads of troops, trucks and tanks. From their bridgehead east of the mighty river, Allied armies have now slashed into the heart of Germany. Ten miles north, the 9th Division of the 1st Army enters Bad Godesburg, decked in white flags of surrender. Here, Hitler and Chamberlain met in 1938, preceding the Munich Pact. Now, German civilians take orders from the Allied military government. Ones must be turned in. Just north of Godesburg, the 1st Army's 1st Division drives to the wreckage of the bridge. Now, they have advanced far beyond, from just one more objective taken. Just one more collecting point for thousands of beaten soldiers of the Reich, now prisoners of the Allied.