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Montage of World War II images,covering Eastern Front, Pacific, and European theaters of operation
German troops advance on the Eastern Front during World War 2. Russians employ scorched earth policy . Oil tanks ablaze and dams and structures blown up. Germans lay siege to Stalingrad. A Soviet troops in urban combat in Stalingrad. A German soldier is shot and falls. Views of awful destruction. Animated map showing Leningrad and the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga on either side. Views of Leningrad in snow. Citizens bundled against the cold, walk near historic structures. Food being distributed. Soviet troops in defensive positions. Animated map shows outbreak of Soviet forces in pincer movement that surrounds the German 6th Army. Two Soviet armies meet as they close the pincer. German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendering to Soviet forces on 31 January 1943. Troops of the German 6th Army make their way through the snow as they surrender. Battlefield cemetery, with markers of German soldier's graves. Numerous Soviet citizens, victims of the fighting, seen lying in the snow, as relatives grieve. Scene shifts to the Pacific theater with view of Japanese bombers flying over an installation flying the Rising Sun flag. Scenes of the Pearl Harbor attack. American workers fill yard near a war plant during shift change. Defense industry workers in the plants. Liberty ships being launched. American forces in amphibious assaults. U.S. forces engaged in North Africa and on Pacific islands. American soldiers at battlefield gravesite. General Dwight D. Eisenhower with General Omar Bradley and Allied military leaders, look over a map of Europe, following the June 6th invasion in Normandy. Fields filled with Sherman tanks and other war materiel, in England. The wing of an American airplane in D-day stripes as it takes off. Views from cockpit of an American bomber striking targets on D-day. B-17 bombers in formation at high altitude, leaving condensation trails in the sky. Pilots in cockpit of an American bomber, as they drop bombs. Allied fighters in D-day stripes peeling off to attack. Gun camera views of fighters strafing German targets. Explosions and fires.
Views of a French warship and crew docked in North Africa
Start of film shows a French sailor looking through binoculars at sunset. Next scene shows a ship's officer and sailor employ a fire control range finder for anti aircraft use. Next, emergency responders, in Khaki uniforms and steel combat helmets, rush aboard the docked ship, from a bunker nearby. Some take up positions at a naval gun, that they maneuver, pointing its barrel landward. The responders are seen leaving a bunker displaying a sign reading: "Savoie" above its door. Scene changes to a sailor aboard the ship loading a very pistol. A sailor fires a round from a belt fed heavy anti aircraft machine gun. A white, red, blue, and yellow flag is displayed at his position. He hands a slender gun barrel to another sailor. A responder in Khaki sits on deck, disassembling a weapon.
French colonial African troops drill and present arms during a review in North Africa during the World War II.
Soldiers and civilians stand outside a recruiting building. Recruits in civilian dress. Soldiers and civilians carrying bags as they enter the recruiting building. Recruits come out of the building carrying duffel bags. Few of them wear French helmets. Recruits with French helmet pass as they come out door. French colonial black African troops along with rifles. French colonial African troops drill and present arms. Troops at attention. Pack animals and troops being inspected by officers. Troops march in column. Column of pack animals on march. Troops march along boulevard. Officer talks to soldiers.
Presentation of Curtiss P-40 Warhawk planes by U.S. to the French Lafayette Escadrille in Morocco, North Africa.
Lt. General Carl Spaatz and Major General James Doolittle of the United States Twelfth Air Force, along with Colonel Willis, as well as other American officers at a presentation ceremony of Curtiss P-40 aircraft to French Major-General Bergeret and other French officers. Excellent close-up views of Spaatz and Doolittle. The P-40 Warhawk planes are presented by U.S. to the French Lafayette Escadrille in Morocco. Several P-40s lined outside a hangar. A C-47 Skytrain "Gooney Bird" in the background. The Lafayette Escadrille squadron insignia, French Air Service insignia, and the French tricolor painted on the planes. Soldier walks past the airplanes. The military band with bombers in the background. United States and French officers talk as they hold a cut out of the squadron insignia. (World War II period).
Port of Tunis, Tunisia, North Africa after its fall to Allies in World War II
Allied occupation forces after the fall of Tunis, Tunisia, in World War 2. View from shore of large Allied transport ships side by side at a beach. Views of beach front fortifications. A pair of coastal defense guns on a hill overlooking a beach. Several views of Allied Landing craft infantry, Large, LCI(L), in a harbor.
A portable X-Ray machine is moved to the front lines in Tunisia, North Africa and is used during the World War II.
Allied forces win sea, air battle in fight for Africa during the World War II. A portable X-Ray machine is moved to the front lines in Tunisia and used. Soldiers behind a military truck. Two soldiers carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher and enter a tent. Soldiers in prone position at the side of path. Military vehicles pass by. A portable X-Ray machine arranged by U.S. Army soldiers in a hospital tent. An X-Ray shows a bullet in the chest of a soldier.