Film opens with series of animated maps of the United States, showing the States that are the typical sources of agricultural products, including wheat, corn, dairy products, beef cattle, cotton, flax, lumber, and fruits and vegetables. A woman in overalls places fresh cut corn from a truck on to a conveyor. Farmers pitch hay from trucks. Momentary glimpse of a warehouse on a waterway, with a railroad train running to it, and a large cargo ship docked beside it. A federal official briefs a group of farm state officials and farm families, about the need for increased agricultural production, during World War 2. Closeups of persons in the audience. Scene shifts to window of a modest wooden home with anchor symbol two blue stars displayed for family members in military service. Closeup of the two blue stars in the window. With many men gone in military service, women and youth fill the labor gaps. A women at the wheel of a piece of farm equipment. A boy picking fruit from a tree. View of a large vacant lot in a city being used for numerous "Victory Gardens." A girl digging with a spade in one of the gardens. Other gardeners conversing in the background. A woman storing mason jars of preserved fruits and vegetables on a shelf in her home. Farmers performing maintenance and repairs on farm machinery. Momentary view of farmers loading crates of foods onto an open truck. Women placing vegetables into cans at a factory. Cattle moving into a pen. Men loading bales of cotton onto a river boat. A large freighter being loaded at a port. A farmer treating the soil with something dispensed from a spreader behind his tractor. A farmer harvesting corn by machinery. Three dead pigs, on the ground, (victims of disease.) Cattle foraging close to one another in a pasture. Insects attacking crops as there is a shortage of insecticides during the war. Severe weather causing crop losses is seen. A farmer harvesting with a combine. A document is shown labeled PL 147 77th Congress (the Steagall Bill). (Narrator states it guaranteed prices of 90 percent of parity for war needed crops.) Brochures for alternate crops that farmers might consider because foreign supplies were cut off. A farmer removes an envelope from his mail box. (Narrator alludes to government supplied crop loans and dairy feed payments.) Corn being piled up. Pigs at feeding troughs. Men loading crates of food onto a truck. fresh cut logs rolling into a river. Complete change of scene to Piazzale Loreto, in, Milan, Italy, 1945, where Benito Mussolini and other fascist leaders are seen hung upside down. Adolph Hitler and Marshal Hermann Goering at Berteschgaden. Japanese Emperor Hirohito astride a white horse leading some of his senior military officers as they review assembled troops.
Crowd cheers at the center of Milan, Italy during World War II. Many people gathered at a square in Milan as they celebrate after the Germans surrender. United States Army tanks and trucks move past a large crowd along a street. The Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano, P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) is seen in the background. A large billboard for Chlorodont, a German toothpaste, is seen in the Milan Cathedral piazza. Location is incorrectly slated by camera man.
United States troops enter Milan, Italy after German surrender of the city during World War II. A large crowd gathered in a street as people cheer to welcome United States troops. Vehicles loaded with Italian partisans move past the cheering crowd. The partisans seated on the bonnets of the cars. Civilians wave at the Piazza del Duomo in Milan city center. Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano, P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) in the background.
General Mark W. Clark and other officers of Allied Forces in Milan, at the end of World War II. General Clark, General Willis D. Crittenberger and Lieutenant General Sir Richard L. G. McCreery inspect honor guard. General Clark with other dignitaries. The party enters Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano, P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) and inspect damage by Allied bombing to the 12th century Romanesque Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio (Piazza Sant'Ambrogio, 15, 20123 Milano MI, Italy).
The end of Fascism in Milan, Italy (World War II). A large crowd goatherd near the Esso gas station at Piazzale Loreto where dead bodies of Mussolini and other Fascists were hanged in Milan. Signs on the roof of the gas station. A sign reads 'Mussolini Petacci' indicating the point from where their dead bodies were hanged upside down. People gathered in front of a wall. On the wall is a picture of Mussolini and other Fascists who died with him. A woman empties a bowl in a box placed in front of the picture. A crowd gathered in the street as they watch the SS (Schutzstaffel) troops leave Hotel Regina (Via Santa Margherita, 6 20121 Milano MI Italy) in trucks and vehicles.
Italian partisans and civilians celebrate after the surrender of German forces in Milan, Italy during World War II. A large crowd gathered in a street cheer. People wave. The Milan Cathedral (P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) in the background. Vehicles loaded with Italian partisans move past cheering crowds. People sitting on the equestrian statue of Italian King Victor Emmanuel II. A large crowd in a piazza. People suddenly disperse and run for cover due to Fascist sniper firing.
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