Film starts showing a Soviet Fidonisy class Destroyer (also known as the Kerch class) underway in the Caspian Sea during World War 2. View of wake from the stern. Glimpse of waves crashing against rock on the shore. View shifts to board room of the ship, where Soviet Naval officers converse as they look at ocean charts. A much decorated officer appears to be the senior in the group. The conclude their meeting and leave the room. Scene changes to a port, where torpedo is being loaded onto a submarine from a utility boat. Glimpse of Captain and some crew aboard the submarine. View of torpedo being loaded through an opening at the boat's water line. Captain observing the operation from atop the conning tower. The submarine (labeled No. 10) is seen backing out of its berth. View shifts to the boat's engine room, where an officer is overseeing operations. View of the submarine moving slowly across calm waters
Animated map shows Germany and bordering states of Slovakia, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and the area of Memel (Klaipeda) in Lithuania, during advent of World War 2, Under duress, Lithuania ceded Memel to Germany by a treaty, effective 23 March 1939. It was immediately reincorporated into East Prussia. Newspapers being thrown to people gathered in a square. They carry headline: "Memel is Free."Nazi flags flying. Banner reads "We are swept home."border gates are thrown open and people rush through. Trucks full of German troops are welcomed. Formation of German Heinkel He-51 biplane aircraft flies overhead. View from under triple 11 inch guns at stern of the German Cruiser Deutschland. Adolf Hitler standing behind canvas at railing on the deck with officers. A German destroyer coming into port. Hitler transferring from the Deutschland to a pier at Memel. He reviews troops in formation on the pier. The Deutschland in background with her crew lined up on deck. Hitler stands in an open car as it moves off the wharf to streets where people line the sidewalks to wave and salute him. He reviews German troops drawn up in a city square. Police control crowds. Hitler stands at a podium and exchanges Nazi salute with the crowd.
'Know Your Ally: Britain' - An Allied propaganda film to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as to counter Nazi German propaganda aimed at weakening the alliance during World War II. Scenes in the United States of a college football game as a player makes a touchdown and a crowd erupts in loud cheering. Football team at blocking and tackling practice on a practice field. A World War 2 tank fires. British and American soldiers fire artillery and infantry forces running on a battlefield. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Views of soldiers of China, Russia, Britain and the United States. Allied troops march. Idaho, United States and Britain on a map showing population. Vehicular traffic and pedestrians on a road including cars and double-decker buses and pedestrians showing congested space in Britain. People talk to their neighbors. British policemen seen. British citizens emerge from underground transit system. Groups of British men, women and children in crowds are seen. Image of British Bobby police officer with hand up and narrator relates that British police do not carry a gun. Newspaper headlines about a strike, a catastrophe in Britain. Animated map of the Great Britain shows that it is surrounded by sea. Ships at sea. An old man and a boy sitting on a stoop with a model of a tall masted sailing ship. Brief views of cities in different parts of the world, including Sydney Australia; an unidentified South African port; an aerial view of the city of Wellington, New Zealand; parliament and government buildings in Ottawa, Canada; a large passenger ferry boat passing by with the skyscrapers of Manhattan New York City in the background.
Midway-class aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Mediterranean Sea. Neosho-class fleet oiler USS Mississinewa AO-144 refueling USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) from its port. Gearing-class destroyer USS Meredith DD-890 from its starboard side. Views of bows of the three ships. Ships of U.S. Sixth Fleet maneuvering. View of aircraft on the flight deck.
Film begins showing closeup of a Japanese submarine surfacing in the Indian Ocean during World War 2. As it reaches the surface, crew members rush to the boat's 14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun on deck. They uncover it, rotate it to starboard, and then load and fire it several times. Reflection of sunset on surface of the water. Crew members silhouetted against the sunset as they look through binoculars. View of bow wave on starboard as the submarine travels at high speed on the surface. Glimpse of crew members on the deck. View of bow wave on port as the boat is underway on surface.
Picture of a Hellmuth Walter 109-509 bipropellant rocket motor. The motor mounted in a test stand, next to an observation bunker with a slit viewing port. The rocket engine starts. Smoke comes out.
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