President Franklin Roosevelt speaks at a hall in United States. He sits with other dignitaries and officers stand behind them. Flags in the background. Hitler addresses people. Hostages in Europe are shot dead by the soldiers. Statue of Liberty shown. The United Nations flag. Pictures of Churchill, Stalin, Chiang Kai-shek, Roosevelt and the U.S. flag. (World War II period).
Drivers climb aboard Two German Panzer VI Tiger tanks to demonstrate them at a proving ground in Germany. during World War 2. Views of the tanks moving rapidly across a field. One rolls over a fairly large tree. View of one descending a steep hill rolling over small trees. Closeup of the tread mechanism. Turret rotating on one as it moves forward. A tank backing up, setting into position, and firing its 88mm gun. Round bursting in the distance. Firing at a line of target vehicles. Round strikes a target tank. German Army officers observing through binoculars. Closeup of the target tank burning. Change of scene to an area of combat in Europe during World War 2. A machine gun is firing out the window of an abandoned house. German tank approaches with its gun pointed rearward. It runs over a tree and drives through the wall of the house. It then proceeds through the entire building which collapses around it as it moves. It emerges and drives away.
The Allied Forces fight the Axis troops during World War II. Joint Allied War Council in session in Washington DC. U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General Marshall; U.S. Chief of Air Forces, General Arnold; U.S. Admiral Leahy and U.S. Admiral King and other British and United Nations warheads at the meeting. A map of Europe and North Africa. In North Africa British and American bombers drop bombs on the German supply lines. The allied soldiers advance in pursuit of the retreating enemy. German and Italian prisoners are taken. U.S. General Eisenhower points at a map. General Doolittle shown. From the White House U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the people of France in French over the radio. An American ship at a French port. French children welcome the ship. A man distributes free milk and food to the French children.
The Allied Forces fight the Axis troops in North Africa during World War II. A map of North Africa and Europe. Allied Forces in Gibraltar. An Allied convoy moves towards North Africa. U.S. troops in boats land on the shore. Tanks roll ashore. An Allied plane in flight over the Algiers. The troops including the Free French troops, the Arabs and the natives on the move. French General de Gaulle addresses the troops.
Battles fought by Russians fighting military raids from other nations. Animated map shows Nazi forces' conquest in various nations of Europe. Newspaper printing press operating with rollers spinning quickly. Adolf Hitler and other Nazi Generals in discussion with a map. Hungarian, Romanian and Bulgarian troops parade prior to Nazi occupation. Admiral Miklos von Horthy of Hungary, General Ion Antonescu, King Michael of Romania and King Boris of Bulgaria. Nazi military marches through Hungarian cities. Benito Mussolini walks in Italy. Yugoslavian cities bombed by Nazi planes during invasion of Yugoslavia. German Stuka aircraft dive bomb their targets. Map shows Hitler's conquest on various European nations. Greek soldiers march. Soviet Russian munition factories and war production plants in operation producing cannons, tanks, armament, shells and ammunition. Russian troops march. Warships on alert in sea. Soviet men in civilian clothing gathering together to drill and march as they enter military service as new recruits during military mobilization. Soviet soldiers in training during World War 2.
Franklin Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) shakes hands with U.S. Navy Admiral Harold Stark, Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe, British Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram H Ramsay, and other British and American naval officers, after visiting them in Stark's headquarters at 20 Grosvenor Square, London, England, during World War 2. Secretary Knox enters a car. Scene shifts to an RAF airfield where Secretary Knox stands with Admiral Stark and two military aides,near the wing of a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 airplane. Stark and Knox stand together and then Knox bids Stark goodbye, as he prepares to board the C-47 airplane. Admiral Stark salutes as Secretary Knox climbs aboard the plane. Admiral Stark and aides wave goodbye as the aircraft taxis out. Several members of British Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) walk across the airfield ramp, as the C-47 taxis out for takeoff