A convoy of ships is seen heading from America to England during February, 1944. View from aboard a transport ship, with troops jamming her upper deck. Escorting war ships are seen ahead. Sailors on the foredeck, near a soldier explaining the use of a life preserver to others (unseen). Several sailors lounging near a 20mm gun position. View of sleeping quarters where cots are stacked four rows high. A soldier on deck, dealing cards to others in a circle of players. Closeups of some soldiers resting in their bunks. One is asleep. Another looks at a magazine. A picture portrait of his wife and two babies is seen balanced on his rifle, above his head. A third soldier is writing a letter and another is busy sewing something on his uniform. Back on deck, soldiers and sailors look at the sea as the ship makes way. The film ends showing the deck crowded with troops watching as the ship enters a harbor in England. A few use binoculars to view the shores.
U.S. war correspondents in France toward the end of World War II. A U.S. Navy patrol boat underway in the Atlantic Ocean with sailors aboard it. A war correspondent comes out of a house and poses near a truck. A young French girl poses with him. Shots of a a busy downtown street from a moving vehicle. Large building at the end of the street has an advertisement sign "Joselli" atop the building. A sign on a building reads 'Theatre' and the name of the Theatre, is partially obscured by a draped American flag. A French flag flies beside it. US, French, and British flags together on various buildings. A war correspondent stands on a building balcony in a city area and smiles for the camera. Another war correspondent on a village street poses for the camera and puts on sunglasses. He is joined by the correspondent who had posed with the girl, and they walk up a street beside row houses, to a parked, covered U.S. Army personnel carrier truck.
Slave laborers digging during the construction of the Atlantic Wall in World War II. German engineers oversee the construction. Men working around a large gun turret. Nazi German fortifications, bunkers, and artillery posts along coasts facing the Atlantic Ocean in Europe. The 380 mm gun at the Todt Battery near Cape Gris-Nez, Pas de Calais, France. 40.6 cm SK C/34 gun “Battery Lindemann” (German unit MKB 6 / MAA 244) as part of the Dover Strait coastal guns. German emplacements and troops marching along Normandy in France. A German soldier uses binoculars to watch the English Channel. Adolf Hitler and a Nazi German general. Adolf Hitler greets Benito Mussolini as the latter exits a plane in Vichy France. Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and General George C. Marshall at the Tehran Conference in 1943 during World War 2. Armies from various European countries march and prepare themselves for war against Germany. Supreme Commander General Eisenhower and other Allied generals during a meeting. Fleet of ships in sea ready to land in Normandy on D-Day. Navy and coastal command aircraft drop bombs on Nazi German submarines. Anti-aircraft guns fire at Nazi bombers. Docks damaged by German bombing receive aid from Allied countries. Cranes and hooks lower relief supplies, medicines and warfare material at dock. Warships loaded with artillery and warplanes lowered in ships by hoists. A locomotive train is being lowered from a ship. A military band plays music in a dock. Soldiers move towards the ships. British and Royal Canadian and Australian bombers at their base take off for bombing on Nazi bases at night. A soldier directs a bomber taxiing in runway. Aerial views of British bomber aircraft bombing targets in Germany at night, with immense explosions.
British aircraft attacks German Minelayer underway in the English Channel, Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Animated map of English Channel. German Minelayer underway in the English Channel. German bomber aircraft in flight offer protection for minelayer. German sailor hoists signal flags. Man looks at stop watch aboard ship. Mines are dropped into sea. German sailors run to battle stations. Sailors man guns and antiaircraft guns. They fire at British bomber aircraft. Officer looks through binoculars.
War equipment and supplies transported to different parts by the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Animation of a map depicts the routes taken by the ships to supply war equipment in different parts of the world. Men load supplies on donkeys. The donkeys loaded with supplies walk through rocky terrain. An aircraft loaded with supplies in flight. A warship in the Atlantic Ocean. A soldier observes through a binoculars. An aircraft in flight overhead the ship drops bombs. Explosions in water as bombs are dropped. A convoy of ships. American soldiers land in England. The soldiers disembark from the ships. A soldier carries supplies out of the ship. New Caledonia : Soldiers march out of a warship. The soldiers wave standing at the ship rail. Soldiers march holding flag of the United States. Flag of New Caledonia and the United States hanging out of a building. Iran : A stencil mark of USSR on a crate shows materials arrived from Soviet Union. Two soldiers greet and salute each other. Two soldiers standing in front of a vehicle talk. Egypt : Soldiers walk on a gangplank to unload supplies from a ship. Trucks parked. A train pulls past the trucks parked. A U.S. aircraft carrying cargo in flight. A U.S. aircraft stationed. Animation depicts the air routes of the U.S. Army air transport command. Men carry aircraft parts. Men stack crates. A U.S. aircraft drops supplies in isolated areas of New Guinea. Men look skywards as the aircraft drops supplies.
United States fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean's English Channel on D-Day during the invasion of France. Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) underway. A task force in the English Channel includes battleships, destroyers and PT boats. A PT (Patrol Torpedo) boat passes the LCI and an AP (Transport). Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVPs) underway towards beach. Guns fire from the USS Nevada. Smoke rises from the firing and smoke screen. A Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) heads for the beach. (World War II period).