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Relief and rebuilding works by the occupation forces of United States in Germany and Japan after World War II.
U.S. War Department information film "Overseas Mission" describes relief and rebuilding works in Germany and Japan by United States Army, after World War II. Battle between the Allied forces and the Nazi armies, soldiers and artillery fire during battle in German cities and towns. General Eisenhower signs accepting surrender of Germany. General MacArthur signs accepting surrender of Japan to mark the end of World War II. Soldiers carry casualties on litters. Treaty of Versailles after World War I. Newspaper lines read Nazi rearmament of Germany. Allied tanks and troops march in Germany. Marching Allied forces in Japan. Destroyed buildings and factories in cities of Japan and Germany. Nuremberg trials and arrests of Nazi generals. Allied forces dismantle German factories and industrial plants capable of making war materiel. A U.S. Army officer pushes handle to detonate explosives destroying a German factory. Nazi flags, German ammunitions and German factories are destroyed. Nazi troops and civilians saluting Hitler. Allied army engineers make roads and bridges, medics checking patients to prevent epidemics. Borders guarded, Nazi Germans tried. Prisoners of Nazi and Japanese released, dispensary checkup their health. Japanese prisoners released, board a bus. Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Re-establishment of press, churches, courts and schools. Japanese children at school. Election in the occupied countries to run democratic government. Map showing opposite positions of occupied countries. Rations for occupation forces and civilians transported in trucks. Officers hiring labor to carry out relief works.
Scenes of warfare using American technology, including submarines, aircraft bombing of London, atomic bomb use in Japan
Training regarding relief and rebuilding works in Germany and Japan by United States Army, after World War II. Narrator discussing adoption of American inventions for use against America and allies. German U-boats operating under seawaters bring destruction to a ship. American Wright brothers with their invented airplane. London burning after blitz raids by German aircraft during World War 2. Atomic bomb explosion over Japanese city of Nagasaki and mushroom cloud seen from the air. Also view of Trinity blast in New Mexico - the first U.S. atomic test. The atomic cloud rises high and vast in the sky. Narrator warning against the perils of a third world war.
Various biplanes in formation and various medals to Wright brothers.
History and development of early airplanes. Orville Wright at a ceremony of first flight of his plane. Separate scene showing Wilbur Wright in France, before his death, talking to two French men. A large airfield and number of bi-planes parked in rows, in Italy. A number of planes in formation. Take off of a Luthhansa Junkers G.38 4 engine passenger aircraft (the largest aircraft in the world at that time) circa 1930. Spattend tandem main wheels visible on the giant airplane. Soviet planes fly above a Russian building. Biplanes in formation doing loop the loop. Russian four engine bombers pass over a building. Medals awarded to Wilbur and Orville Wright by various governments and aero clubs of different countries.
Hitler addresses Reichstag in Berlin, Nazi army advances in Soviet Union, and signing of Atlantic Charter during World War II.
Adolf Hitler addresses the Reichstag in Berlin on December 11, 1941 declaring war operations against the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and United States. Marshall Hermann Goering, Sharp and other Nazi leaders listen to him. A map shows eastern front with Nazi German Armies advance in Soviet Union. Battle scenes between German and Soviet armies. German soldiers capture a Soviet prisoner of war. German soldiers fire artillery during a battle. View of German tanks advancing and firing on a battlefield. Ruins of a wrecked, smoking Soviet tank. Scene shifts to United States President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill at Atlantic Conference aboard ship "Prince of Wales" for signing of Atlantic Charter. The Allied leaders are seen singing "Onward Christian Soldiers" during a service.
Britain prepares for World War II
Film opens with a glimpse of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in a forum. Next, Big Ben and the British Parliament building are seen in the background as soldiers (and some civlilans) gather around a British 3-inch antiaircraft gun. British civliians assembling sections of a prefabricated shelter made of corrugated metal. View of a crowded railroad platform where hundreds of British children board a train to evacuate them from London to safety in the countryside, as part of Operation Piper. Parents and loved ones stand back on the platform to see them off. Closeup of children, each tagged with their personal information, climbing aboard the train. Next, after they have boarded the train, parents and others move close to the train windows to wave goodbye to the children. Parents, at a different railroad station, waving goodbye to children on a train carrying them to safety. complete change of scene shows the U.S. freighter ship, SS City of Flint, with hundreds of passengers onboard, who were rescued from the liner SS Athenia, sunk in the first hours of World War II, by the German submarine, U-30, on September 3, 1940. (The City of Flint landed its passengers in Halifax, Nova scotia, and New York City.) A formation of British soldiers is seen marching through a village in the United Kingdom. Glimpse of an underground control room of a German Fort in the Siegfried line. German troops entering the fort, Werkgruppe Scharnhorst Panzerwerk 1238, to take up defensive positions there. Heavy guns firing from underground.
German attacks on European nations and the Soviet Union, in World War II
German attacks on other nations during World War 2. A sign reads 'Belgique' near a building. Germans in Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland and France. German soldiers on tanks and other military vehicles as they advance in blitzkrieg (lightning war). They advance through the Dutch farmlands. German Ju-52 aircraft fly in formation and drop paratroopers. The destruction of Rotterdam by heavy German bombardment. People in Netherlands bury their dead at cemetery. French refugees leave their cities. Adolf Hitler looks at the Eiffel tower in Paris, with other German officials, during occupation of France. Aerial view of the city. German bombers attack London, England during the blitz. Shattered equipment on the ground and destroyed buildings in London, England. Hitler observes the German Atlantic Wall defenses. The battle and Allied evacuation of Dunkirk. White cliffs of Dover Sea shore in view. Map depicts German positions. The Battle of Britain. British spitfire planes attack German bombers. Children being evacuated from London and Paris. Fires and aerial bombardment at night by German aircraft during blitzkrieg. Rubble being cleared by British following bombing by German aircraft. British men and women war production workers in munitions and aircraft factories. Hitler and Goering with others in the railroad carriage where French authorities surrender at Compiegne in June, 1940. German forces attacking the Soviet Union, with tanks, infantry and aircraft during Operation Barbarossa, on June 22, 1941.The mobilization of Soviet defense forces depicted with scenes of Soviet citizens listening to radio updates and reading newspapers about invasion. Soviet men mobilizing for military training. New recruits in Russia prepare for military action.
