Images taken by military and news cameramen during World War II. The North African Campaign, 1940: Convoy of British tanks, trucks, and infantry advance over the Libyan Desert. British soldiers fire artillery. Masses of Italian prisoners marched by British soldiers. Next shown is campaign on the Eastern Front, 1941, as Germany attacks Russia: Nazi tanks advance under Luftwaffe air cover into the Soviet Union. Aerial view of German Junker Ju 87 aircraft in flight. German tanks and armored vehicles rolling. Wide view of many German tanks rolling east. German soldiers leaping down from a hill with smoke all around as they battle in a Russian town. Russian Pe-2 bomber aircraft in flight. Interior view of pilot and crew in Soviet Pe-2 bomber while in flight. Soviet soldiers on tanks during a battle. Burning tanks. Soviet soldiers run toward battle front and pass a dead German soldier on the battlefield.
German troops battle the enemy in Africa during World War II. Vehicles and troops of German motorized reconnaissance detachment move across a desert in Africa. German soldiers find tire tracks and identify them as enemy tracks by measurements. Troops and vehicles stop at a village. Villagers greet German troops. A German officer bandages a child. German Field Marshal and Commander of Afrika Korps Erwin Rommel, German General Albert Kesselring and other German officials meet Italian Military Commander Ugo Cavallero and other Italian military officials at Staff Headquarters of combined German and Italian tank force. Rommel confers with Cavallero. A German anti-aircraft gun fires against British airplanes laying a bomb-carpet. British airplanes bomb dwellings. A British airplane is downed. A British tank attack is warded off by German artillery fire.
German newsreel in World War 2 shows Spanish sailors in boats possibly in North Africa. A sailor talks over telephone. Sailors fire from gun mounted on the boat. Long muzzle of a gun seen. Spanish Soldiers jump from the boats and pull the boat to the beach. Soldiers march on rocky hills. Marching troop of soldiers led by the Spanish officer. Spanish officer salutes the troops.
Truck convoy of British troops moving across desert in North Africa, during World War 2. Light observation planes fly low overhead. British troops load a disabled tank aboard a flat bed truck while shellsl burst all around them during the operation. Brief view of British paratroopers seated inside a transport aircraft. British troops refueling and rearming a tank. A large number of German and Italian prisoners of war are assembled under British guard, in the desert.
British Eighth Army advances in North Africa during World War II. British trucks move across desert terrain. British Eighth Army soldiers in the area. Soldiers atop a truck. Thick black smoke rises in the background.
British Eighth Army in North Africa during World War II. Two camouflaged field guns fire. Smoke rises as a result. A soldier walks towards the field guns. Other camouflaged installations in the background.