Casualties of World War II (symptoms like PTSD) receive emotional and mental medical aid in New York, United States. A diagnostic report regarding a patient's anxiety being spoken into and dictaphone and then seen being typed in a typewriter. Patients make free long distance call and are seen seated in a long row of telephone booths. Patients settle in at the Mason General Hospital for the ten weeks treatment program. A man sleeping and another one sitting on a bed and unpacking. American flag being hoisted in front of the hospital premises.
U.S. military casualties of World War II receive emotional and mental medical aid in Brentwood, New York after the end of the war. Patients standing in front of their bunks after rising in the morning. The medical officer in charge checks condition of every patient under a ten weeks treatment program in Mason General Hospital. A doctor checks up a patient using a stethoscope. A doctor checks blood pressure of a patient. A doctor holding Rorschach test cards as a patient describes what he sees. A patient holds a card which he says shows a figure like two women standing on a rock and waving.
As film begins, organ music is heard. Camera pans across tops of tents showing sky above. Scene shifts to a Chaplain conducting Sunday services in the open. A soldier plays a field organ as soldiers and airmen participate in the service. Closeup of the Chaplain kneeling before a makeshift altar where objects are placed to facilitate communion in a mass or service. Complete change of scene shows airmen arranging bombs for loading aboard an open truck that then backs up to an airplane, into which they are loaded. Narrator notes that these are all purpose bombs weighing 250, 500, and 1000 lbs, respectively. Closeup of a 1000 lb bomb in foreground marked "GP 1000 lb AN-M44." Airmen arnorers install fins and fuses before loading the bombs aboard the aircraft. An airman loads belts of machine gun ammunition at a gun turret of the airplane. others load guns elsewhere on the aircraft. Closeup of pilots being given final briefing about the mission, before departure. Narrator notes that the mission will involve two flights of B-24s and one of B-17s. Planned altitudes and routes of the bombers are drawn on a map in colors. They are to attack a Japanese installation on Kiska Island. Fighter support is described. A Flight crew assembles near their B-24 Liberator bomber. Closeups of individual crew members waiting on the airfield ramp. Scene shifts to fighter pilots who will be accompanying the bombers. They converse in front of a row of fighter aircraft. They are wearing flotation gear over their flight suits. The area is paved with Marsden matting (pierced steel planking). Closeups of men in the group, including: Lieutenant George I. Rudell, Lieutenant Holy P. Mail, Lieutenant Lial A. Bean, Major Willson Aston, Lieutenant Henry J. Strencops and Colonel Jackson.
Opening scene shows map with principal cities of Danzig, Königsberg, Warsaw, Breslau and the Vistula River and Baltic Sea (Ostsee) among other places shown. Gernan forces forming a defense against Soviets on the Vistula line in the Winter of 1945, during World War 2. German troops are seen in white winter gear manning positions in deep snow. They are seen in midst of high winds and snowstorm. Only a couple of motorcycles move through the storm. Closeups of some of the German soldiers. Scene shifts to a Baltic seaport, where German troops and war materiel are being loaded for transport to the front. Views of German supply convoy underway through ice floes in the Baltic. Glimpse of German sailors on deck in cold weather gear. View from snow covered deck of an accompanying warship of the convoy steaming ahead. At TC:01:09, the German Cruiser Prinz Eugen is seen underway in the Baltic. She carries a an observation aircraft amidship. Next, German warships are seen firing multiple salvos from their naval guns.
The Nuremberg Trials in Germany after World War II. American lawyer Telford Taylor addresses the court. A board shows the relations between the government and defendants. General Watson in the court. The defendant's lawyer sits in front of the dock.
Allied invasion of Palau Islands during World War II. Marines on a beach. A Marine strings a wire in the foreground at the beach. The Marines march towards the front. They rest on a beach. A 40 mm anti aircraft gun placed behind a sandbag mound. A Landing Vehicle Tracked in shallow waters after being knocked out in Japanese firing.
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