Italian Field Marshal Luigi Cadorna in Europe during World War I. He meets civilians. Cadorna talks to children.
British troops on the battlefields and in the trenches of World War I. The Royal Family (King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret) in formal appearance on a balcony. Scenes of World War II. London ablaze in the Blitz air attack by Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany. Firefighters direct water hoses on burning buildings. Funerals for dead at Coventry who were killed in the blitz. Destroyed homes in London and destroyed industry throughout Britain from blitzkrieg. A British bus upended and leaning against a building destroyed by the blitz. Many graves in British Military Cemetery. British contributions to science and technology. An early revolving radar antenna. Early jet propulsion work yielding jet powered British V-Bomber aircraft in flight. A doctor administers penicillin shot to a child patient in a doctor's office. An atomic bomb test with mushroom cloud rising.
Canadian sailors, wearing steel helmets, aboard an Antiaircraft destroyer, in World War 2. They watch as two practice target shooting with rifles on the ship's deck. One of them wears a cap with Canadian Naval Petty Officer insignia. View of the rifle targets. Sailors hurry to a quad-mounted Mark III Vickers .50 antiaircraft machine gun position as an officer looks through a sighting device. The gunners begin firing. Another gun crew mans what appears to be a QF 3 inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun, while two sailors fire hand-held Lewis machine guns, skyward. View forward from the bridge of the ship. She appears to have two more forward deck-mounted 3 inch anti-aircraft guns. View astern showing the British White Ensign flying. Other warships are seen steaming on the horizon. A sailor standing near depth charges on deck, looks through binoculars. Steamships in a convoy are seen. View of a camouflaged two-stacker destroyer in the convoy. Crew members running forward on deck, followed by explosions seen in wake of the ship as depth charges she has launched detonate.
Canadian sailors aboard a destroyer escorting a convoy in the Atlantic Ocean. An officer gives out the daily rations of rum from a barrel. A sailor looks through binoculars at other ships of the convoy. View of several ships in the convoy. A sailor draws a sketch. Captain and ship's officer pose for the camera. A two-stacker destroyer moving through calm sea. Sailors washing their socks in buckets. An RAF Camouflaged Lockheed A-29 Hudson bomber reconnaissance aircraft, fitted with Boulton Paul dorsal gun turret, flies low over the convoy. Closeup of the plane flying past the Canadian ship.
Opening scene is in a courthouse, where a judge asks a group about taking an oath of citizenship. Members of the group raise their hands and then lower them. The judge then proceeds to have them raise their right hands and administers the oath. They repeat the words as he states them. Closeup of the judge as he administers the oath. Closeup of the persons assembled for the ceremony, raising their hands as the judge speaks, and saying "I do,"before lowering their hands. Camera in exclusive closeup of one woman as she has hand raised and states, "I Do." This last scene is repeated three times.
Closeup of a man and woman listening intently in a group of persons taking citizenship oath. They (and others) raise their right hands and after listening, say "I do," and lower their hands. Successive closeups of a young woman and a man each doing the same.
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