A film titled 'The True Glory' based on Allied invasion and conquest of Western Europe during World War II. Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight D. Eisenhower introduces the film and speaks about Nazi defeat on Western Front in World War II. Animated map shows Germany and surroundings darkened on a world map. Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler giving an impassioned and animated speech. Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels stands with other German officials. German troops parade. Massive columns of German soldiers marching in formation. German men beat drums. Barrel of a naval-type heavy gun firing. Huge explosion on the ground. Views of the German Atlantic Wall defenses including large fortifications and bunkers. German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of Staff of the German High Command, inspecting the massive gun emplacements and coastal bunkers.
German fortifications in the Maginot and Siegfried Lines in World War 2. Illustrated map of Western Europe depicting Great Britain, Netherlands, Ireland, Scandinavia, Belgium and Germany during World War 2. The Swastika symbol is shown on the German-occupied side. German soldiers and slave labor workers digging ditches for fortifications along Atlantic Wall. Shadows of men digging ditches. Men building tank barriers and roadblocks. A man twists a wire in place. Men constructing a bunker. German troops marching on the beach under watch by soldiers with guns. German troops enter a bunker. German soldiers ducking to go through a fortification bunker door one by one. Nazi German soldiers push a field gun to a camouflaged underground bunker. German soldier puts down his telephone. A howitzer in a German fortification facing the coast. Gun turrets moving up. German soldiers with a Karl-Gerät siege mortar called “Thor” during the Battle of Sevastopol. Nazi German railgun “Schwerer Gustav” during the Battle of Sevastopol. German soldiers load a 7.1 ton shell to the “Schwerer Gustav” railgun. A German officer uses a telescope. Dragon’s teeth tank obstacles in the Siegfred Line fortification in Western Germany. Barbed wire fences in a battlefield.
Two Martin B-26 Marauder medium bombers in flight, dropping bombs overhead as part of a raid by the United States Ninth Airforce in Europe during World War 2. Bombs dropping into a city. Smoke clouds form over bomb sites. A group of Martin B-26 Marauder bombers in flight. Aerial view of a bombed city.
African American soldiers in Europe during World War 2. A black United States Army soldier climbs down a rope ladder to an LCM boat as other fellow black soldiers on the boat look on. A group of African American soldiers on board LCM. African American soldiers standing on deck of ship overlooking LCM alongside. African American soldiers on board a landing craft mechanized (LCM) heading towards a beach. Soldiers disembark from a LCM on a beach.
African American U.S. Army soldiers on board a ship heading for Europe during World War 2. Two black United States soldiers wearing small life preservers over their uniforms on deck of ship. Another soldier talks to the two black soldiers with life preservers. Soldier gives night identifying lights. Soldiers clip night identifying light devices on life jackets. A black soldier wearing glasses discusses a map with another soldier. African American soldier points to a map while talking to another soldier. Black soldiers wearing life preservers crowding a deck onboard a ship. Black soldiers watching the sea from deck as ship sails.
African American United States soldiers on board a ship heading for Europe during World War 2. A white military chaplain conducts a religious service on deck of the ship. African American U.S. Army soldiers with small life preservers on deck of a ship listens to the white Christian chaplain. A black soldier wearing life preserver plays a trumpet during the religious service. A small group of black soldiers sing religious songs as a choir. Black soldiers clapping, white soldiers sitting behind them. Black soldiers leaning on deck fencing, a ship is seen from a distance behind them. A young black soldier looking on. A black soldier talking, then smiles.