Sailors at control board. Firing depth charges off bow of ship in Germany. Depth charges in air and falling in the water, and cause explosions. USS Frament underway. Destroyer Escort underway leaves a pattern of exploded depth charges in water. Sailors loading depth charges and firing same. Sailor using talker for firing depth charges. (World War II period).
French Prisoners of War (POW) are returning to their homes in France during World War II. The men get off from a train and are embraced by their families.
German warplanes flying overhead. German planes and battleships bombard an American led Allied supply convoy in the Mediterranean Sea off North Africa. Bombs burst close to ships. An Italian torpedo boat launches a torpedo that strikes and sinks an American vessel. Italian crew members seen on their torpedo boat. German Dornier bombers in formation flight.
German SS Infantry climb from trenches in Lake Ilmen sector during World War 2. Pz.38t tank, German Sdkfz.222 and 232 armoured cars advance. German infantry soldiers wade through mud and briefly get stuck in mud, while artillery shells are exploding nearby. German forces enter a forest and capture a number of Russian troops. Captured Soviet prisoners (POW) seen huddled together, some injured.
An American freighter is spotted by the lookout on an Italian submarine. Members of the crew rush to the controls of the sub to ready for attack. Activities in the Engine Room of submarine. The Italian submarine fires on the American ship and the freighter is seen sinking. (World War II period).
German Sdkfz.253 half-track and infantry advance through rubble of bombed out Stalingrad. German forces fire machine guns and throw grenades. Views from a hill of the city of Stalingrad burning; houses seen in foreground and factories behind them. Coverage changes to Leningrad, where German artillery is fired at besieged Leningrad. Artillery shells explode on Russian targets across a river from the German forces. German Infantry enter a town and close-up view of a German army soldier with handgun drawn during house-to-house battle. German soldiers run through a forest passing dead Russians and abandoned equipment, including tanks upended and destroyed.
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