U.S. Medical Corps in Italy during World War II. Injured U.S. soldiers being loaded onto railroad train, and wounded seen in bunks and beds aboard the medical train or hospital train. Nurses move in the moving train. The soldiers eat food. Next scene is at the Anzio Nettuno beachhead: The exteriors of a wrecked building. British and American soldiers and officers walk through a passage down the stairs. Soldiers work on maps and typewriters in tunnels at the underground Allied headquarters in Cassino. View of girl pin-up images decorating walls of the converted wine cellar headquarters. U.S. Soldiers pack German language leaflets into shells to be fired into the German lines at Cassino. View of one of the leaflets, which narrator says tell of the victories by Soviet forces on the eastern front. Shells holding propaganda leaflets are fired as soldiers discuss the strategy. A truck near a heap of shells. St. Elia: U.S. soldiers help injured civilian refugee people. An Italian woman carrying a child walks. A young civilian refugee girl stands near the truck and cries.
Opening scene shows Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek seated with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Madam Chiang in their Cairo meeting at a residence of the American Ambassador to Egypt, Alexander Kirk, on November 25, 1943, during World War 2. Foreign ministers of the countries stand behind their leaders. Closeups of the three Country's leaders. Scene jumps to Teheran, with Soviet Leader, Joseph Stalin, President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, seated on a veranda of the Soviet Embassy. Suddenly scenes of tanks, trucks, and Soviet troops moving on the Eastern front are seen. Some of the troops move by horse-drawn sleighs through the snow. A line of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 bombers taxiing on an airfield. View from a B-17 in flight. View f as a cluster of bombs falls from B-17 and explodes on the ground. Animated map illustrating paths of aircraft attacks against the German Atlantic Wall from England. Landing craft underway in an amphibious assault. Brief view from a ship of a post-war test atomic explosion in the Pacific ocean
German map shows cities in Poland and Baltic countries such as Warsaw, Riga, and Tallinn. German General Hermann Balck with his aides on the Eastern Front during World War II. Nebelwerfer rockets firing at enemy positions. Smoke rises from fire in battlefield. German Panzer tanks and artillery on patrol in the streets of the Praga district of Warsaw, Poland during the abortive uprising against German garrison in the city (led by General Tadeusz Komorowski also known as General Bór-Komorowski, or as General Bor). Camouflaged German tank firing at Polish Resistance. Rocket guns firing at a city. A soldier uses binoculars. Smoke rises far behind haystacks. Warsaw after German bombardment. Smoke rises from destroyed buildings in Warsaw. German soldier advances with basketful of grenades, walking over rubble. A German soldier sprints during street fighting. German troops engage in street fighting with Polish Resistance Movement in Warsaw. Fighters in flight before a cloud of smoke rises above Warsaw. Heavily bombed buildings. German soldier aims his gun while hiding behind a wall. Soldiers firing of antitank guns point blank at building in city. German soldiers using flamethrowers and mortars during the Warsaw Uprising.
Nazi Germany during World War II. Members of the Nazi paramilitary unit Hitler Youth train. An officer blows a whistle and supervizes the exercises. The youth at attention hold flags while they sing an anthem. Hitler Youth march. German troops cycle to the front. Hitler Youth members, old men and women dig trenches on the Russian front. The diggers with tools. An aerial view of the long trench.
Dead German soldiers lying among destroyed German armor and artillery, in a snow-covered battlefield in Russia, during World War Two. Among the destroyed armor and artillery , two wrecked Pz.IV tanks and field guns are seen. Footage is from the Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket as Soviet forces reclaimed Ukraine.
Frozen battle field scene as Russian forces advance through bombed out German positions in the Battle of the Cherkassy pocket of the Ukraine region. Destroyed German tanks, artillery equipment, and German horses and dead soldiers lie on the frozen battlefield following battle. A captured German soldier is huddled on a cart. Piles of abandoned and wrecked German equipment. Soviet forces approach and identify the body of dead German Commander, General Wilhelm Stemmermann, who died with many of his forces after being encircled by the Russians. A long line of German prisoners, four deep, moving over snow under Russian guard in snowy and windy conditions. The Russian soldiers escort the prisoners. The prisoners cross a bridge. View of a snowy field covered with frozen bodies of dead German soldiers, some still holding rifles. A Russian officer addresses troops near Potchemky. The dead Germans are strewed over the snow. Various views of the wrecked German equipment and dead bodies of the soldiers frozen on the snowy battlefield. Low aerial view of the destroyed German front as seen from a Russian aircraft. Long line of destroyed German vehicles and dead Wehrmacht soldiers defeated in Battle of the Korsun - Cherkassy Pocket.