Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in Massachusetts during World War II. Queen Wilhelmina and other officers walk past lined up troops. Soldiers pass in review. Queen Wilhelmina reviews passing troops from stand.
Battle of Palembang, Indonesia, in World War 2. Japanese Kawasaki Ki-56 transport aircraft flying overhead in formation, begin dropping paratroopers. The sky is filled with their chutes. Next scene shows many struggling to make their way through knee-deep swampy jungles, where they landed. Most of their arms and ammunition were lost in the swamps. They finally emerge to attack lightly defended facilities of the Dutch Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM) and Nederlandsche Koloniale Petroleum Maatschappij (NKPM),a refinery for the American Standard Oil Company. Japanese soldiers are seen after a day's battle with the defending contingent of Royal Netherlands East Indies Army home guard. A rear guard group of them and Dutch technicians, are made prisoners. Shell fired by departing Dutch forces strike oil storage tanks. Smoke rises in several places and one very heavy black smoke plume rises near the camera. Soon the area is a blazing inferno. The Japanese troops succeed in confining fires to the oil tanks, extinguish them, and save the cracking towers and other essential oil refinery structures. The Japanese flag is seen atop one. (Note: Two technicians seen in white, at TC: 02:05, are BPM workers. The one on the left is Christiaan Stapels. He died at a Japanese prisoner of war camp in June 1945.)
War Parade on Fifth Avenue, in New York City, United States during World War II . Baton twirling Drum Majorettes. National Float of the Netherlands, with "Holland" in bold letters. several U.S. veterans of WWI in uniform. Athletes in running gear. Antique wooden hearse drawn by team of 4 horses, with sign on its side decrying "Crime of Lidice." United States flags raised on the buildings. A huge crowd gathered on the sidewalks. Policemen stationed at the curbs along the line of march.
Nazi German Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels visits Field Marshal Walter Model on the Western Front during World War II. A staff car driving on a road, likely in Oosterbeek near Arnhem, Netherlands. Joseph Goebbels shakes hands with Marshal Model upon arrival at the latter’s headquarters. Marshal Model performs the Hitler Salute. Other visitors saluted back. A Nazi SS soldier stands guard, watching the arrival of Goebbels. Other officers perform the Nazi salute. Joseph Goebbels and Marshal Model greet each other with the Nazi salute. Goebbels returns to his staff car camouflaged with pine branches. Goebbels talks to Marshal Model before leaving Model’s headquarters. In another sequence, Nazi German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels visits an armaments factory in Germany. Sign on the wall reads ‘Front und Heimat keen nur ein Ziel: Kampf bis zum Sieg!’ (‘Front and home have only one goal: fight to victory!’ in English). More Nazi factory signs reads ‘Unerschütterlich Kampfentschlossen Siegesgewiss!’ (‘Unshakable, determined to fight, certain to win!’) and ‘Mit dem Führer zum Sieg!’ (‘With the Führer to victory!’). Armaments workers perform the Nazi salute inside the factory. A Nazi German standard with the German name of Cologne ‘Köln’. Joseph Goebbels delivers a speech in front of German factory workers. Crowds of German factory workers and Nazi officers, including young men and women, listen to Goebbel’s speech. Goebbels gives encouragement to the workers during his speech. Goebbels talks about the war’s progress and Nazi Germany’s allies, such as Romania. He thanks them for their efforts. Goebbels ended his speech to the enthusiastic applause from the audience. The crowds began to sing a patriotic Nazi song, likely the Horst Wessel song. A Nazi standard representing ‘Rhein’.
Aftermath of Pearl Harbor attack. People in Oahu, Hawaii, prepare to deal with more air attacks by Japanese. Armed U.S. soldier in sandbagged position, in Hawaii. The territorial governor of Hawaii, Joseph Poindexter, signing a declaration of Martial Law. Four thousand members of Oahu's Civil Defense Committee, dressed in dark bottoms and white tops, wearing steel helmets with "W" on them, standing at attention in formation on grounds of a stadium. Windows in all downtown shops taped to prevent flying glass. Sand bags surrounding a power substation. Huge quantities of barbed wire in a storage yard and strung along the beaches, along highways, around schools, and public buildings of Oahu. A man pushing a lawn mower between sandbagged defense positions in a residential neighborhood. Construction machinery digging defensive trenches. Bomb shelters being constructed of precast concrete. Air raid sirens installed and school children leaving their building and sheltering in deep trenches during a test. Very small children taking shelter in zig-zag trenches and donning gas masks. Huge assemblies of children, and of grownups, all donning gas masks. Little children being dressed in capsule-like "bunny mask" protective gear.One of them crying inside the covering. Crowds of women and children lined up on a veranda waiting to receive these "bunny masks." Military personnel, civilians, and school children, all carrying personal gas masks with them at all times. Innumerable old rubber tires saved in an open yard. Japanese-Americans donating blood to the American Red Cross and lined up to buy war bonds. Soldiers arresting a Japanese resident known to be an enemy agent. Boarded up shops of Japanese-Americans, who had been interned. Japanese-Americans removing all Japanese language signs from their areas. Language school buildings with closed signs. An empty and boarded-up Shinto temple. One Japanese-American replacing his cafe sign with one reading: "Keep 'Em Flying Cafe." U.S. Army troops posted on roadways. The Aloha Tower in camouflage paint. A Lurline steamship leaving port, and being replaced by warships. Prewar view of people enjoying Waikakee beach, and current view of two boys playing in sand near barbed wire barriers. City streets deserted at twilight, as blackout procedures take effect at dusk. Views of darkened homes and palm trees silhouetted against sky at dusk. The "ghost" of a sailor killed in World War II, stands in front of Arlington cemetery, Washington, DC, and converses with the ghost of a soldier killed in World War I. They discuss idealistic notions about ending wars for good. Displays of flags is seen, including: Australia; Belgium; Brazil; Canada; China; Costa Rica; Cuba; Czechoslovakia; Dominican Republic; England; Ethopia; Greece; Guatemala; Haiti; Honduras; India; Yugoslavia; Luxembourg; Mexico; The Netherlands; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Norway; Panama; The Philippines; Poland; Russia; El Salvador; South Africa; and the U.S.A. "V" created in the sky by a skywriting airplane.
United States General (and future President) Dwight David Eisenhower visits the Netherlands. Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in the Netherlands with other military officers. Eisenhower reviews naval recruits standing at attention. Eisenhower looks through binoculars and observes Dutch Army soldiers performing drills and firing guns in training exercises. Army soldiers of the Netherlands climb barricades and perform other drills while practicing. Exteriors of Soestdijk Palace in Baarn, Netherlands. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and her husband, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, welcome Dwight David Eisenhower and his wife Mamie Doud Eisenhower.