Innsbruck Shooting Festival in Innsbruck during July, 1943, announced by banner stretched across a road. Buildings and Nazi banners in view. Closeups of Austrian men and women in colorful costumes. Closeup glimpse of the flag of a World War II Austrian State. A parade of Austrians carrying various Austrian State flags and others carrying unidentified flags. The parade viewed from above, and then from within the ranks of marching participants in traditional uniforms and carrying rifles. A huge crowd of spectators gathered on the sidewalks. A brass band playing for the marchers, from the sidelines. Shots of marcher's feet and then of them from waist up. German soldiers in uniform, recovering from war wounds, have front row seats. An antique cannon is fired. Then the street becomes completely filled with participants and spectators.
Youth Organization Camp in Norway. Boys and girls in camp. Uniformed boys hoist flag on flagstaff. Girls get food at field kitchen. Man takes food out of field kitchen. Man in Norwegian costume gets his portion in the field kitchen. Men in uniform and civilians eat in front of tents and sit on benches. Norwegian flag. Vidkun Quisling visits camp. He is greeted by girls and officials.
British pilots in hospitals, England. A man gets out of a car and stands in front of a building. Several men stand in a room. The wounded members of Royal Air Force admitted in hospital quarters. Two pilots use crutches and sticks to walk. A doctor administers exercises to the pilots. Orphans and other youngsters wounded in blitz air raids by German Luftwaffe are also admitted. Children lay on beds. Nurses give a girl a mug of milk and she cries when it is taken away before she is done.
At beginning of film, camera pans over Malta. A map of that area of the Mediterranean Sea is shown. A street scene in Malta, with pedestrians on the sidewalks. A local police officer speaks to a group of men and women wearing steel helmets. Closeup of some of them. (They appear to be a group of volunteers.) Scene shifts to view from a street of flak clouds in the sky above, from anti-aircraft fire directed at Axis planes bombing Malta. People pointing toward the sky at an Axis bomber. Bombs exploding on the city. An old woman and several children pose in front buildings totally destroyed with nothing but rubble remaining. Views of destroyed buildings. Film shifts to a British Illustrious class aircraft carrier anchored in waters near Malta. It then shows a view of sailors on a British warship. A British sailor poses in a small boat with the British battleship HMS Warspite in the background. Glimpse of naval gun shells in a container. Some guns on ship's deck with mechanism for rotating them into vertical position. View of the barrels pointing upward. In rearming operations, A heavy naval gun shell being moved by a winch with a clamp around its body, onto the HMS Warspite. Sailors gathered around the shell to remove it from the winch. Sailors rolling a heavy shell on a platform. More sailors lowering a heavy shell into the hold of the battleship. British Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, on the deck of HMS Warspite, his flagship.
Public buildings in Washington DC, United States. The Union Station. The United States flag raised on the building. Vehicular traffic on the road. Snow plows scraping snow off snow from walk in front of Union Station. Statues over the entrance of the Union Station.
Film begins showing German ace pilot Oberleutnant (Major) Helmut Lent, of a night fighter wing, with other pilots on the occasion of his 100th aerial victory, on July 31, 1944, when he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. Next, a night fighter Messerschmitt Bf 110 twin-engine heavy fighter is seen taxiing out for takeoff at night in heavy rain. Scene shifts to a Nazi memorial service for Major Lent, who was killed in a crash on October 5, 1944. His flag-covered coffin is seen flanked by an honor guard. A display of his military awards is seen, also. View from beside the honor guard shows Field Marshal Hermann Goering raising his baton in salute as other attending the ceremony render the Nazi salute. Goering offers his condolences to parents of Major Lent. He then ascends steps toward the coffin and salutes. View from behind the honor guard as Goering delivers a eulogy. View Luftwaffe (Air Force) officers filling the seats of the hall, including famous ace, Adolf Galland. Goering steps from the podium and stands in front of the coffin, saluting with his baton, as the audience rises and all render the Nazi hand salute. With help of two soldiers, Goering places a large wreath of flowers before the coffin. Closeup of the wreath and Goering saluting with his baton. A large wreath with ribbons showing it is from the Furhrer (Hitler).
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