USS Campbell tying up to a supply ship in the United Kingdom, during World War 2. Views of the USCGC (US Coast Guard Cutter) Campbell, tying up to an anchored British supply vessel in the UK, during World War 2. A British Flower Class Corvette, in camouflage paint, seen briefly passing behind the two ships. Hills in the near background. Crew members on both ships raising hawser out of the water.
Part 1 of a 2 part interrogation of Colonel Otto Skorzeny, a German officer, by a United States Army captain in Germany at the conclusion of World War 2 in Europe. The United States Army Captain interrogates him through an American enlisted man serving as interpreter. They talk amongst themselves. They discuss a paper.
Part 2 of a 2 part Interrogation of Colonel Otto Skorzeny, a famous German Colonel, by a United States Army captain in Germany. The United States army captain interrogates him through an American enlisted man serving as interpreter. The Colonel speaks about the liberation of Benito Mussolini and his rescue by plane. He also tells about the meeting of Adolf Hitler and Mussolini and the Italian dictators return to the Lake Garda area. These were accomplished by the Panzer brigade. Skorzeny takes off his wrist watch commemorating the event and they discuss the information inscribed on its back. The wrist watch lies on the table.
German forces take Minsk and advance to the Soviet Union early in their World War 2 Operation Barbarossa. German soldiers dive for cover as a shell explodes, during their house-to-house operations. One waves unarmed surrendering Soviet soldiers forward. Several other surrendering Soviet soldiers run along a dirt roadside. Some are also seen at a German field red cross tent where German medical corpsmen are standing. Soldiers hit the dirt as more shells strike nearby. Closeups of some Soviet prisoners. German Ju 87 Dive bombers are seen high above, and then closeup as they dive. Glimpse of German pilot in cockpit. Bombs striking ground. Dive bombers pulling out. Bombs exploding. Camera focuses on bomb falling from a Ju 87, and tracks it until it explodes on the ground. A German artillery spotter watches as a gun crew fires a 10.5cm le FH 18 howitzer. The shell explodes with white smoke and debris flies into the air. Glimpse of German soldiers watching as a gunner fires a 2cm Flak 38 antiaircraft gun at zero elevation. More artillery firing. A farm building is completely destroyed by an exploding heavy artillery shell. German troops walk past burning armor. Knocked out and burning tanks and other vehicles line the sides of the road to Minsk. But it is now open and a line of German troops with horse-drawn supply wagons moves ahead. Some mounted officers proceed as well. Trucks and armor follow, including a StuG III self-propelled gun armed with a short-barreled 75-mm gun. Scenes of total destruction. German long guns firing in flat lands as they continue advance to the Dnieper River. German 17 Cm Kanone 18 guns firing toward Stalin Line fortifications. Huge explosions seen as shells explode in distance. A fire raging in distance. More German artillery firing. German infantry advancing after the artillery barrages. Obstacles at Soviet lines of defense that German infantry must breach or bypass. German infantry entering a village. One throws a hand grenade and they both drop to the ground as it explodes on a small building. German soldier firing a light machine gun. Sounds of heavy artillery and views of battle damaged buildings and fortifications. Captured Soviet prisoners walk with hands above their heads. Closeups of some. Aerial view of a destroyed fort on the Stalin line and destroyed buildings all around it.
Captured French General Henri Giraud steps from a German JU-52 trimotor transport plane and is met by German officers during World War 2 German invasion and occupation of France. Animated map shows execution of the Manstein strategy, with massed German Panzer units circumnavigating the Maginot line and attacking through the Ardennes Forest, converging in a thrust to Abbeville on the French coast. This is carried out by German General Heinz Guderian and the 29th Panzer Corps. German forces are seen moving rapidly in trucks, motorcycles, on horseback (cavalry) and even with horse-drawn wagons. Pz.IV tanks of a Panzer division are seen on the move. Soldiers on Pz.III tank and horses move on the field. German infantry marches casually along a road and into a French town, accompanied by a marching band. Houses along the street. Soldiers on Sdkfz.263 8-wheeled armored car of 2.Pz.Div in a field. Other soldiers move on tanks. Germans shell installations at a French port city during Battle of France. German officers ride into a captured French port city.
Blue shirts moving Marine F2H Banshee aircraft with folded wings, on flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier. They roll one by pushing on the leading edge, without rocking the aircraft. Diagram shows tendency of jets to rock fore and aft. They use a tug to move a jet forward only. Blue shirts rolling one back to allow forward towing. An F2H being taxied with wings folded. Blue shirts position one pointing aft overboard to minimize blast from engine during start. Wheels being chocked.
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