German Generals meet in Germany during World War II. The Generals standing inside a building. Luftwaffe Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, General West and Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt meet in the building. The Generals seated at a desk discuss.
U.S. ships and airplanes attack Marcus Island in the Pacific Ocean during the Doolittle Raid of World War II. Aerial view of the island. Smoke arises from bombardment.
U.S. ships of Task Force 16 underway in the Pacific Ocean carrying the Doolittle Raid crews of World War 2. The bow of the USS Salt Lake City, CA-25, as it goes through heavy seas. Water breaking over the bow. Various ships of a task force on the horizon. The bow of the same cruiser receives another breaker. The camouflaged Gleaves-class destroyer USS Meredith (DD-434) seen off the starboard of CA-25. A signalman raises flags. He sends blinker signals to carriers. A single stack destroyer of the Benham Class comes up alongside the cruiser. The task Force including USS Enterprise, USS Hornet, destroyers and two tankers underway. Aviation detail on the well-deck preparing to catapult a U.S. Navy SOC Seagull aircraft. The SOC aircraft is catapulted. A signalman sends a semaphore message. Signal flags on the ship. Several SOC scout planes are launched.
U.S. ships underway in the Pacific Ocean during the Doolittle Raid of World War II. The flight deck of USS Enterprise. A 500 pound bomb being loaded beneath a U.S. Navy SBD Dauntless aircraft. U.S. Navy F4F Wildcat aircraft and SBDs parked on the flight deck of the ship. The aircraft take off from the flight deck. Insignia of the U.S. Army Air Forces on the airplanes. The aircraft in flight over task force 18
A concert pianist (Emil Gilels) in civilian clothes sits at a grand piano set up on a stage outdoors on the flight line of a Soviet Air Base during World War 2. Soviet airmen dressed in flight gear, listen attentively to the concert, as several sit in their cockpits or on the wings of their Mikoyan-Gurevich (MIG 3) fighter aircraft. Many others are assembled around the stage.(Several lend-lease C-47 aircraft are seen in the background.) A Mig-3 flies low over the the assembly.Lieutenant Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin,a renowned Soviet fighter pilot, is seen in cockpit of the plane, after landing, as he shuts the engine down. He climbs down, wearing a seat-pack parachute, and walks across the ramp toward two decorated Soviet airmen. They exchange salutes. Pokryshkin then joins them,leaning against the wing of a MIG-3. The camera focuses upon Pokryshkin. The concert pianist finishes playing and the airmen applaud. Scene shifts to airmen loading boxes of supplies aboard a C-47 transport airplane. A C-47 in flight overhead.
Soviet soldiers in the Soviet Union during World War II. Exteriors of a building. An artillery emplacement. A trail moves past the emplacement. Soviet officers confer at a map. A camouflaged soldier amidst trees. The soldier runs across a field and fires.
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