Tehran as the “Persian Corridor” during World War II. A black car stops in front of the Hotel Ritz in Ferdowsi Square, Tehran, Iran. A cart pulled by a horse pass by the hotel. Some pedestrians cross the street across the Hotel Ritz. Pedestrians walking past the Texas Café and Restaurant in downtown Tehran. Several multistory buildings. View looking down on a horse-drawn cart moving along a tree-lined city street. National Council building in Baharestan Square, Tehran. Minarets of the Sepahsalar Mosque (Tehran Province, Tehran, Allameh Sharif-e-Razi, Iran). A bus drives past the Sepahsalar Mosque. Donkeys, bicycles, and pedestrians are also seen.
United States soldiers enter the Black Cat Bar in Teharan, Iran. A horse drawn rickshaw moves past the Bar Astoria and other Iranian shops. Views of modernist buildings in Tehran. Two United States soldiers pass the Texas Bar and Restaurant with sign reading “STOP Here is the Americans MEETING PLACE”. A bus drive towards the National Council building in Baharestan Square, Tehran. Carts and pedestrians move past the Brown Derby Bar and Restaurant, with its sign reading, "LET'S EAT." Clothes hanging outside Hollywood Laundry in Tehran with sign written in English and Persian. A camel caravan halts traffic while camels cross the street.
Horse drawn rickshaw moves in front of the shops in Iran during WW2. Aerial view of what appears to be a Motor Transport Service camp in Iran. An Iranian man in traditional clothes talking. United States Army trucks drive past a monument to Reza Shah Pahlavi, the first Shahinshah of Iran. A horse carriage driver rests in front of the monument.
United States soldiers talking together in Tehran, Iran during World War II. Outside hut with sign “Office of the Commanding General”, two United States soldiers talk to each other. Two soldiers saluted to each other as good-bye. Soldier enters the Office of the Commanding General before another soldier comes out. More soldiers talk outside the Office of the Commanding General, each good-bye end with salute. Signage says “Office of the Commanding General”.
Various signages of businesses catering to American and Russian soldiers in Iran during World War II. Signs in English, Arabic and Russian signs read “Brown Derby American Bar & Restaurant LETS'EAT” and “No.1 In bounds to other ranks” and “Black Cat Bar” in Tehran, Iran.
Allied strategic Conferences in World War 2. Opening scene shows Château Frontenac. Then President Franklin Roosevelt seated with Canada Prime Minister, McKensie King, and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Scene shifts to their respective military staffs conferring at a table. Next scene shows the Russian Embassy in Tehran, Iran, with the Big Three (Joseph Stalin, FDR, and Churchill) seated on the portico, and their top ranking military officers standing behind them. Soviet Marshal Kliment Voroshilov stands behind Stalin. American officers are seen in next scene, including General George Marshall, Admiral Ernest King (lighting a cigarette) and General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, W. Averell Harriman, stands behind King and Arnold. Closeup of Churchill. Shift to an animated map of Europe. It illustrates the massive fortifications put in place by the Nazis along the coast of occupied Europe. Camera pans across heavy German coastal guns, Pill Boxes, and shore obstacles in place on the beaches. Marshal Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel leads a group of German officers on an inspection tour of the "Atlantic Wall" defenses. Closeup of Rommel. British Bristol Blenheim bombers en route to attack targets in the German occupied areas. Views of Allied airmen inside cockpit of their bomber aircraft. A flight of five German fighters (appear to be Bf-109s) peeling off to attack an Allied bomber. View inside bomber of American gunner in bomber firing machine gun at attacking German fighter. Head on view of German Focke Wulf FW-190 fighter heading straight toward the camera, and point of view from gun camera as German aircraft zooms up over it. Gunner in bomber firing. An aircraft exploding inflight. View inside Allied bomber, through cracked windshield, of aircraft in a formation of U.S. Martin B-26 Marauder bombers. Next shot is rearward from bomb bay showing bombs away view as bombs are released from a B-26. Scene shifts to aerial view from rear of a U.S. B-17 bomber dropping bombs. View of the bombs striking a railroad marshaling yard. Another view of a B-26 bomber in flight.