Nazi prisoners of war in Michigan, United States during World War II. The prisoners work with shovels during a road construction. They work in timber forests. A prisoner makes shoes on machines. The prisoners dine. They play chess and table tennis in a recreation room. They listen to a German band.
Fishermen collect Nazi rubber from sea in Fortaleza, Brazil. The native fishermen on boats. They collect German rubber bales of Nazi blockade runners sunk at sea during World War II. The fishermen load the rubber sacks in a vehicle. The rubber sacks are then rolled inside a building
A rodeo in Brisbane, Australia. Native indigenous Australians carrying spears do a dance demonstration. Spectators sit and watch the Rodeo event between the diggers and the Yanks (Australians versus Americans military personnel in Australia during World War 2). A rider climbs a horse. The horse bucks the man onto the ground. The spectators cheer while watching the rodeo featuring numerous riders on bulls and horses. A woman competes also. The Australians win the rodeo contest.
A parade in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. U.S. soldiers march. The Republican Party nominee of the 1940 Presidential elections Wendell Lewis Willkie salutes. People on bicycles and cars in the parade. People dressed in different costumes. They carry hot air balloons shaped as different animals. A hot air balloon shaped in the form of a train. (World War II period).
U.S. Medical Corps in Italy during World War II. Injured U.S. soldiers being loaded onto railroad train, and wounded seen in bunks and beds aboard the medical train or hospital train. Nurses move in the moving train. The soldiers eat food. Next scene is at the Anzio Nettuno beachhead: The exteriors of a wrecked building. British and American soldiers and officers walk through a passage down the stairs. Soldiers work on maps and typewriters in tunnels at the underground Allied headquarters in Cassino. View of girl pin-up images decorating walls of the converted wine cellar headquarters. U.S. Soldiers pack German language leaflets into shells to be fired into the German lines at Cassino. View of one of the leaflets, which narrator says tell of the victories by Soviet forces on the eastern front. Shells holding propaganda leaflets are fired as soldiers discuss the strategy. A truck near a heap of shells. St. Elia: U.S. soldiers help injured civilian refugee people. An Italian woman carrying a child walks. A young civilian refugee girl stands near the truck and cries.
View from rocks above as the USS LST -349, is seen being pounded by wind and wave against rocks off Ponza, Italy during World War 2. German prisoners of war are huddled together on her deck as American crew members work to rescue them. Prisoners are seen being assisted as they climb up the steep rocks from the ship. Some are ferried off in inflated rafts. Narrator says: “The ship begins to break in two, with some crew and 20 prisoners still aboard.” View of ship going down as those on the rocks struggle and rescue efforts continue. Narrator states: “The waves swept two Americans and six German prisoners off the cliffs to their deaths. In all, 14 died, 4 Americans, one British officer, and 9 German prisoners.” In the final scene, the ship has sunk out of sight and all survivors (unseen) have moved inland.
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