A meeting of the America First Committee at the Manhattan Center in New York City during World War II. A large crowd inside the Center. The Committee members on stage. Colonel Charles A Lindbergh on the podium. He addresses the meeting. Photographers take pictures. He talks about the U.S. military situation, U.S. entry into war, and U.S. contribution to progress of mankind. He requests the people to join the America First Committee and asks for their support. People cheer and applaud.
Spanish Blue Division soldiers in Spain during World War II. They served as volunteers in the German Army on the eastern front. Spanish officers salute German soldiers. A Spanish officer receives flowers from a woman. The Blue Division soldiers look out of the windows of railroad cars. Augustin Muñoz Grandes, Commander of the Blue Division, greets the soldiers. Some soldiers say good bye to their families. The train pulls out of the station. The soldiers lean out of train. They are handed snacks, drinks, and other refreshments by the people gathered. Dignitaries present deliver speeches and Nazi salutes.
Blue Division Spanish soldiers in Madrid, Spain during World War II. Flags of Spain and Germany on El Estacion del Norte train station in Madrid. Officers gives speeches. Spanish spectators observe. A train pulls into the station. A large crowd at the station. The Spanish citizens greet soldiers and salute them. Spanish soldiers say goodbye to their wives and families at the station. They are bound for the Eastern Front, serving as volunteers in the German Army.
Spanish farmers in Spain during World War II. Scenes of mountains. Houses in the background. Farmers work on mountain fields. Workers walk across a field. Tractors and horses are used to plow the field. Men and women work in vineyards. Women stand near horses.
German soldiers in Germany during World War 2. A flooded area of the Eastern Front. German soldiers in speed boats. A man steps in a water filled gutter. A wheel with chains. Water up to the level of the axle of the wheel. Trucks skid in mud. A German car moves through very deep mud. A half truck pulls a field piece through mud. German soldiers with horses walk through mud. They fire anti tank guns and mortars through a wooded area.
Japanese Imperial Navy exercises and operations in World War 2. View, from Japanese battleship, of a Destroyer underway ahead. Momentary glimpse of Landing party of Japanese Marines in battle gear massed in section of a ship. One holds the Japanese rising sun Marine ensign. A Kako class heavy cruiser underway. Battleship elevates guns in her turrets. Shipboard torpedo tubes are shown. Momentary view of another battleship. A Tone class light cruiser to starboard, and a battleship astern. Light signals flash from the ship. The formation of warships circles to port. The photo ship drops depth charges, and two battleships astern fire their heavy guns. A different film shows two Japanese carriers underway,in rough weather. The carrier, Kaga, is closer in, and the Zuikaku trailing. In another change of sequence, A succession of Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero (Zeke) airplanes take off from carrier flight deck. They form up and proceed overhead. A scout observer plane takes off. Scene shows task force of warships moving through heavy seas.
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