Animated map shows the front line of battle, between Republican and Nationalist forces, running West of Madrid from West Park through University City, during the Spanish Civil War. Camera pans across landscape, from a high vantage point, and then focuses on buildings of University City, where Nationalist forces have taken up positions in a palace with two pointed towers, and near a ruined clinical hospital. Republican troops are seen entering through a gate at the hospital, where the bearded Brigade Commander Jesús Martínez de Aragón is seen consulting with his staff. (Narrator notes that he died in the attack on the Casa del Campo soon after this scene was filmed.) Views of sandbagged buildings inside the hospital compound. The Brigade Commander is seen with some of his soldiers, while rebels are trying to move further into the clinic compound. His soldiers take up defensive positions inside clinic buildings, carrying heavy arms up the stairs. Republican defenders firing machine guns from inside the building, and moving through rubble to other positions. Views inside the clinic and sound of glass breaking. Continuous sound of machine gun fire. Two soldiers fire through a small hole in a concrete wall. View, from Republican defensive position, of a battle-scarred multistory building across the way. One of the soldiers writing a letter home (dated May 4, 1937). Another soldier rolls a cigarette.
The Spanish Civil War. Map of Madrid and road to Valencia, showing Aganda bridge across Jarama River, where Nationalists attack from their front lines. Republican troops being mustered in village square to proceed south and counterattack. Closeups of some of the soldiers. Scene shifts to farmers working on an irrigations project. They tamp down the ground and carry wooden sections of sluice that they connect together to carry irrigation water. View of a farmer walking along the newly erected sluice, with river in the background.
German troops occupying key locations in the City of Copenhagen, Denmark, during the Second World War. Troops occupying the Danish Citadel fortress. Front of a church with inscription: "Jeg er vejen og sandheden" (I am the way and the truth). German troops in courthyard of the Citadel, folding up the Danish flag (Swastika flying from roof). German bombers dropping "OPRPI" leaflets over the city, calling for Danes to cooperate. Danish and German soldiers sharing cigarettes, as German bombers fly overhead. German Major-General Kurt Himer (Commander of the Occupying forces) and his Danish counterpart. German and Danish military officers conferring. German soldier issues nightsticks to Copenhagen's Danish City police. Views of German occupation forces moving through Denmark in motorized transports. King Christian X seen riding along city street, on horseback ,followed by small retinue of bodyguards. Several Danish citizens remove their hats as he passes. A German soldier salutes. Armed German troop ships tied up at a pier. German soldiers directing traffic. German troops and war materiel being moved by rail and truck. German troops moving in half tracks towing artillery.
U.S. Army General Mark Clark visits the Italian second front in Nettuno, Italy during World War II. General Mark Clark discusses with U.S. Army Major General John P. Lucas. Major General Lucas smokes a cigar. General Clark boards a transport airplane. The airplane taxis and takes off. Men watch the airplane.
U.S. air raids on the Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. An aerial view of U.S. aircraft flying over a target area. Close-up aerial views of the side and front of a B-25 bomber while in flight. United States Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchells in flight over the target area. Forepart of a B-25 in flight. The B-25s fly at a low altitude.
Allied troops and civilians in the city of Casablanca, Morocco during World War II. An aerial view of the city. Buildings and houses in the background. People working on a farm. Exterior of a building. Natives walk in front of the building. The U.S. flag flutters from the flag pole outside the building. A French soldier on guard. The civilians and French soldiers in the foreground. Enlisted men perform calisthenics. The civilians watch them. Ems marching on the street. Women, EM and a small boy stand in the balcony of a building. They wave goodbye.
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