 American observers watched the shelling of Nazi positions in Asserno, a town in the path of the American advance in southern Italy. Orders are given to move up. In trucks and jeeps, the Fifth Army rolls ahead. The twisted wreckage of powerful German Mark IV tanks lines the route of the Nazi retreat. Americans occupy Asserno. Hopefully they search for snipers, still concealed in the ruins of demolished streets. Captured Nazi soldiers are herded behind the lines. In accordance with international law, one is questioned by an intelligence officer. All find United States Army rations a welcome treat. Regiments of American soldiers of Japanese ancestry are a part of the United States Fifth Army. Born in Hawaii, they're intensely loyal to the land of their birth. Whose Eighth Army is pushing up the Adriatic coast visits General Clark at Fifth Army headquarters near Naples. Monte Corvino's important airfield is captured. Still littered with Nazi planes that never got off the ground. Junker transports and Messerschmitts, not quite so formidable now. Rolls on. All roads lead to Rome. Held Assam Mountains of northern Burma, rescue planes search for 20 men forced to parachute from a China-bound transport. Radio signals sent just before the plane fell have brought the searching parties to the scene. They sight the lost men in a clearing below. A remote village 6,000 feet up in the mountains. Food and medical supplies are dropped by parachute. A doctor and two medical corpsmen also are landed by parachute to give first aid to the maroon men. Say enough, these primitive natives, once headhunters of the jungle, proved to be the white men's best friends. They fed and sheltered the stranded party until help arrived from the skies. The natives led the survivors through the wild, uncharted country, heading towards the India frontier. His leg broken, the bearded flight sergeant who sent the message for help is borne by carriers. These pictures show the party nearing the end of their journey. Theirs is a dramatic story of heroism and survival. Without that radio message, they might have been lost forever. Happy ending to a modern saga of the jungle. Forks Fifth Avenue, 25,000 Americans of Polish descent, made in honor of General Pulaski, Polish hero of the American Revolution. Children in gay national costumes of Poland brighten the line of march. The Polish ambassador review the annual procession as patriots march in the cause of freedom. The United States Army Air Force arrives to visit American airmen based in the British Isles. He inspects a battle-scarred bomber just back from a raid over Germany. Also here is Captain Clark Gable, veteran of ten raids over Europe. One-time movie star, now a gunner in the United States Army Air Force. In Detroit, Michigan, the first practical helicopter is brought to be placed in the museum of Henry Ford. The gift of inventor Igor Sikorsky. Development of aviation, the automobile magnet adds the Sikorsky craft to his famous collection. New York City, the Princess Martha of Norway comes with her three children to dedicate a Norwegian naval training station. Sailors of Norway's vast merchant fleet are greeted by the princess. Her small son and two daughters look on with pride as their mother, in the name of the king, decorates Norwegian officers for gallantry in action. Princess Martha, symbol of Norway's fighting spirit in the cause of the United Nations. Hugo Slav units trained by the United States Army Air Force with liberator bombers they'll fly in combat, receive their wings and are presented to President Roosevelt. Built with two great objectives, the first is to drop bombs on our common enemy successfully and at the right points. The second is to deliver to your compatriots in Yugoslavia the much needed supplies for which they have waited so long. The eight lightning fighters form a protective covering for Allied bombers of the South Pacific Air Force as they roar in to draw a Japanese air base on the north coast of New Guinea. Dozens of enemy planes line the landing field as the bombers come in with guns blazing. Striking miles to the east, another group hits installations at Nubia and Hansa Bay. Jap batteries their chief target. People flying V-25s unload tons of delayed action bombs. It hurts right still another chapter in the United Nations' new aerial offensive. Tasting ruins of Jap installations on the Gilbert Islands, attesting to the accuracy of their fire. Off the coast of Terawa, United States planes attack enemy shipping for the American planes. They've taken a heavy toll of Japanese ships and now they're ready to celebrate. The crossing of the equator finds the traditional King Neptune still holding cork. The sailor man's sense of humor taking time out from the war.