Slate reads, "Hero Battle Ship X revealed to be USS South Dakota" Aerial view of USS South Dakota at sea with airplane wing tip in foreground. Sailors assembled on the deck of the USS South Dakota. Overhead view of ship's guns. The ship had been dubbed "Battleship X' for reporting to the press around January 1943 when it was undergoing repairs. Guns firing on the USS South Dakota. An officer speaks.
Allied soldiers wading up onto a beach in the Pacific during WWII. A soldier crouched on the beach and looking out to sea. A tank emerges from a landing craft and drives onto the beach. Troops run through the jungle. A soldier carries a wounded comrade on his back while another soldier follows. Soldiers hunker down to start setting up their machine guns. A dead allied soldier in a ditch. Planes dive bomb a distant beach area. Spray of sand and water on horizon as bombs hit beach.
Headline reads "Nazi Raid Hits Allied Ships" Three ships are seen on fire with heavy black smoke billowing up. Similar view with PT boat in foreground and then again with an anti aircraft gun in foreground. Fire boats spray water onto ships as they begin to list. Soldiers, possible Italian, dig through rubble of a building. The body of a boy is pulled from the wreckage. View of a single ship on fire.
Film begins with map of the Balkan States including labels for Serbia, Crotia, Hungary, Romania. Next, a Junkers 88 bomber aircraft takes off from an airfield and climbs out close to the camera. It flies high between cloud layers above. View from pilot cockpit of the right engine as the aircraft flies above a solid cloud formation below. Rearward view of the aircraft's vertical stabilizer against backdrop of cumulus clouds. Aerial views of some roads, bridges, and rivers in rugged terrain below. View from low in the aircraft, of crewman silhouetted against canopy. A city seen below. Another view from copilot's seat of the right engine running. Final scene shows aerial view of the city of Sophia, capital of Bulgaria, below.
Opening scene shows two skiers holding flaming torches and another carrying a large swastika flag as they descend a snowy hillside. They stop at a prepared tower of evergreens and the torch bearers ignite it. Scene shifts to numerous Hitler Youth members bearing flaming torches encircling the large bonfire. Only their torch lights are visible in the dark. At end of film, Baldur von Schirach, Hitler Youth leader, is seen standing with several boy members of the Hitler Youth.
Small group of German Skiers (ski troops) dressed in white parkas is seen slowly traversing a snow covered alpine mountain pass. German soldiers on skis pause and the camera shows scenes of snow, mountains, mist and clouds. View from high vantage point of the skiers descending at high speed down a snowy slope. Closeup of skiers making a turn as they speed past the camera.
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