After the Allied occupation of Cherbourg, France during World War II. A sign on a gate reads 'United States Navy Public Relations office' Trucks lined up with men of United States "Drew" units (naval units organized to construct and operate captured ports) are seen loaded on the trucks arriving in Cherbourg. Navy Drew unit personnel loaded on trucks open and eat a meal of C rations. Men talk to each other. A torn poster of Adolf Hitler on the street. Smashed photographs of a German general on the ground.
Bomb damaged German rocket launching installations in Cherbourg, France during World War II. Smoke rises from wreckage. A damaged boat on the coast. Rocket launching installation wrecked with a damaged railroad track. A partially destroyed steel frame structure and nearby tunnel. Men who appear to be U.S. soldiers seen outside the rocket launching installation.
End of World War II. A Soviet Army officer sits at a desk with a telephone in the background. Officer speaks.
Concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany, at liberation in World War II. Victims of the concentration camp who suffered Nazi atrocities. Former inmates sit on the camp grounds. Men appear feeble and starved. Men stand across the barbed wire fence at the camp. Deformed legs of a young boy. Two former prisoners lie down in sun near barbed wire fence. A banner reads 'All Polish greet the fraternal American Army' and American and Polish flags near the banner.
German Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe General Albert Kesselring in Italy during World War II. German map of Italy showing major cities such as Venice, Genoa, and Rome. Nazi General Kesselring inspects Italian soldiers. Soldiers lined up in a filed. General Kesselring greeted by other Italian officers.
Benito Mussolini head of the Italian Social Republic, meets with his cabinet during World War II. Among notables attending the cabinet meeting, are Defense Minister Marshal Rodolfo Graziani and Cabinet vice-chairman, Francesco Maria Barracu who confer before the meeting and with Mussolini during the meeting. Change of scene to Marshal Graziani being greeted by German military officers as he enters a building to confer with Marshal Erwin Rommel and his staff who were sent to oversee the bolstering of Italian defenses. Marshal Graziani confers with the German officers. Marshal Rommel bids him farewell as he leaves the building. Rommel and accompanying German staff officers leave in a car to inspect Italian defenses (possibly Liguria region). They observe Italian workers building concrete fortifications. They visit sites where a German sentry is seen walking along a fortification wall and German troops are seen manning a variety of heavy guns in coastal defenses.
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