Leaders of different nation meet U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House in Washington DC, United States. An honor guard at the White House. President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Beneš arrives. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull greets him. Beneš greets President Roosevelt and his daughter in the White House. Beneš talks to Roosevelt. Cars pull up at the White House. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Roosevelt seated in a car as they confer about World War II.
Spruce trees being cut in Canada to get lumber for use in bomber aircraft during World War II. Narrator indicates the Spruce is ideal because it is the strongest lightweight wood. Lumberjack men cut the trees. Axes and large two-man saws used to fell the trees. Views of giant trees leaning and then crashing to the forest floor after being cut. Forests being cleared. Canadian women helping with wartime production work in a lumber mill receiving and guiding giant logs onto conveyor belt systems for processing at the saw mill. Cut spruce lumber being loaded on flat railroad cars for transport. Wooden planks attached to a crane hoist being loaded for transport.
Steel being produced in a mill in California, United States during world War II. Machines in operation as steel is being produced in the first steel production facility on the U.S. West Coast. Famous industrialist and shipbuilding titan, Henry J. Kaiser, looks at the production process in the mill. Tanks roll out of an assembly line. Many lines of completed medium tanks and heavy tanks lined up in depots and ready for use in World War II.
Allied campaign against the Japanese during World War II. United States troops loaded in landing crafts head towards Attu Island, Aleutian Islands. Naval guns aboard ships fire at Japanese positions on the coast. Soldiers land and wade through water amidst heavy firing. Royal Australian aircraft take off from an airstrip in New Guinea to bombard Japanese positions on the island. The aircraft in flight as they drop bombs. Explosions occur. A pilot in a cockpit as Japanese positions are being bombarded.
United States Army Air Forces Major General Claire Lee Chennault Commander of the 14th Air Force in China during World War II. Airmen of the 14th Air Force lined up on a field with aircraft in the background. Chennault inspects the 14th Air Force. A Captain with a medal pinned onto him. Chinese pilots shake hands with Major General Chennault. In Washington DC Major General Chennault receives the Mitchell Trophy for the services rendered by the 14th Air Force. U.S. Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft in flight and drop bombs over Sicily and Sardinia in Italy. Explosions occur.
German troops skiing in Italy during World War II. Unarmed German troops ski down a slope. This seems more recreational than war-related. Soldiers rest and soak up sun. But some of their comrades sneak up and throw snow at them, starting a good-natured snow fight. Two soldiers wrestle in the snow. Mule packs carry supplies for German troops. Supplies being unloaded. Hot food being carried in containers, on the backs of German soldiers to feed troops in the field. German troops advance along a snow covered area. A snow storm blows.
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