A-5 rocket takes off from a wooded area at Greifswalder Oie Island in Germany. Missile launches in air.
The funeral procession of Lt. Istvan Horthy de Nagybanya, son of Hungarian regent Admiral Miklos Horthy, in Budapest during World War 2. Mounted soldiers in the street. A large crowd gathered to pay homage. The dome of the Hungarian Parliament Building. Officers walk along with the casket on a cart. Officers salute as soldiers carry the casket into the cathedral. A long line of people wait outside the cathedral to pay their respects. Soldiers carry the casket inside the cathedral. Banners stating: 'Adolf Hitler' and 'Benito Mussolini'. A banner with the Swastika. Officers give a Nazi salute. Foreign Minister of Germany Joachim Von Ribbentrop and of Italy Gian Galeazzo Ciano attend the services. The decorated casket. The officials and dignitaries seated inside the cathedral.
Japanese submarine underway. Japanese Navy personnel marching on drill ground. Instructor teaches naval students in a class room. Portrait of Admiral Tojo. Japanese Navy students listen and watch during training. Models of various types of Japanese submarines. Portrait of Japanese naval officer. Park shows Japanese submarine, used as training model. Japanese sailors work on controls in engine room of the submarine. World map displayed on wall. Small Japanese submarine underway. Freighter burns after being torpedoed. Some newspaper clippings in Japanese showing images of Germany's Adolf Hitler. Map shows South West Pacific Area stretching all the way to United States and a picture of the submarine on the map.
Downtown street in Anderson South Carolina, lined with civilians and cars during a reenactment of Nazi martial law over Germany. Views of many storefronts and town buildings. Siren sound. A car streaming smoke behind it drives down the street. Smoke fills the entire street and surrounds the crowds. Actors imitating Nazi German soldiers setup a gun in the middle of the street. Crowd is dispersed. View of lit "Sears" store sign obscured by smoke. Views of mock armed Nazi soldiers wearing gas masks and marching toward a gas filled building, then emerging from the building and running with seized "prisoners". (World War II period).
View of Eagle Squadron units of the British RAF, composed of Americans who volunteered to assist Britain against Germany before the United States entered World War II. The Eagle Squadron members are receiving Army Air Force insignia wings from Brigadier General Frank Hunter as they formally exit the RAF and enter the 4th Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force. Close-up views of Hunter presenting wings to the airmen, some of who had served the RAF for two year including in the Battle of Britain. The three squadrons, 334th, 335th, and 336th, parade in the rain at an airbase. The American flag is raised beside the RAF flag on a flag pole.
Descriptions of Axis forces and intentions in an American produced propaganda film. Animated map shows Japan. Emperor Hirohito inspects Japanese Troops. Troops bow down in front of the emperor. Group of Japanese women also bow down to the emperor. Masses of German citizens at packed rallies in Germany, crowded with people cheering Nazi leadership. Military demonstrations in Axis countries with military forces in their respective uniforms in each country and masses of decorated flags carried high. Picture of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Emperor Hirohito. Adolf Hitler addressing Reichstag in an animated speech with much gesticulating calling on Germans to follow him and he'll 'make them masters of the world.' Mussolini speaking to a gathered crowd and rallying support for the fascist cause. Hirohito speaking and Japanese forces answering with "bonzai" shouts. Italian soldiers massed in front of Colosseum in Rome. Italian officers in blackshirt uniforms. Brownshirt uniforms of Germans. Views of Japanese officers in uniform. Scenes of Axis government buildings in various cities: The Reichstag in Berlin, the House of Deputies in Rome, and the Diet in Tokyo. Legislatures in each country cheering their leaders as they speak. German ditch digging crew listens to military foreman and shouts heil Hitler. German brown shirts approach a residence and use butt of gun to force entry. Italian Soldiers raising daggers or bayonets up high and also placing their helmets atop bayonets on rifles. Newspaper headline reads 'Hitler executes more Anti-Nazi Leaders'. Dramatized depiction of slaying of socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Italy in 1924 by fascists, and Viscount Saito in Tokyo in February 1936. More headlines of other anti-Axis leaders. Views of large cathedrals from street level. People praying in church - a woman praying the rosary and an elderly man praying. German Doctor Alfred Rosenberg speaking in 1938 and decrying organized religion. Newspaper headlines recount mistreatment, imprisonment, and slaying of religious leaders. German Doctor Goebbels speaks over a microphone. German leader Julius Streicher speaking in 1935.