Clip begins with footage of an attack transport ship and a tug boat alongside one another, before cutting to a scene of U.S. medical corpsmen lowering medical gear over the side of the ship they are on, presumably onto a smaller ship below that is out of sight. A WW2 LCVP Higgins Boat is then seen maneuvering through semi-choppy water, presumably toward the beaches of Normandy during D-Day invasion. Three groups of planes in formation are then shown far overhead, before the clip cuts back to footage of Higgins Boats. Low level shot across choppy seas of many more Higgins Boats in the water. View of another LCVP moored beside a much larger attack transport ship.
A line of children, led by their teacher, file out of a schoolhouse in Hawaii towards a small trench. The kids begin filing into the trench, stopping about halfway through. They crouch down, presumably into a sheltered position, before all standing up a few moments later and filing out of the other end of the trench. The teachers watch and guide them through this exercise.
Captured German troops being sorted by U.S. soldiers. European refugees standing on rubble. A civilian man with a bandage around his head walks along a lineup of German prisoners examining each one, before pointing at the last one in line, implicating him.
U.S. Navy corpsmen tend to about a dozen sailors lying in a row on stretchers following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War 2. A navy nurse enters the shot from the right side and lays a blanket on top of one of the injured. Smoke begins to drift past before a car towing a trailer with four more stretchers arrives. The corpsmen move quickly to unload the stretchers and begin tending to the wounded sailors.
Scene from a movie production showing German actor and film pioneer Paul Wegener as he dumps a sack on the ground. Paul Molander talks in one of the scenes from the 1945 German film “Der Fall Molander” (“The Molander Case”). Scene changes to Hitler Youth members skiing downhill in the dark with torches in their hands as they celebrate the German folk festival Winter Solstice in World War II. A Hitler Youth stops at the bottom slope and lights a bonfire with his torch. Crowds of Hitler Youth gather by the bonfire with their torches at night. Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach is seen in the event.
German figure skater Lydia Veicht performs at the Berlin Sportspalast in Berlin, Germany. The Berlin Sportspalast stadium is seen without a roof after sustaining damage from Allied bombings in World War II. The steel skeleton of the roof supports is visible. The stadium seating is filled with spectators dressed in warm clothing. Ice skater Lydia Veicht gracefully spins and jumps on ice. A German soldier watches the show with his child. Some of the audience include German soldiers in uniform. Women and men applaud the performance. A man and a woman perform on ice. Soldiers huddled together in a blanket as they watch. A group of figure skaters in short Dirndl-inspired costumes perform a dance on ice.
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