A happy family reunion in New York, United States. Teenage boys Constantin and Peter Georgescu, held by Romania's Communist government for 7 years in an effort to force their father to spy on the United States, disembark a plane with their father and are greeted by their mother at a New York airport. They pose for photos by press.
French firemen demonstrate new aluminum foil fire suits in France. Fire fighters wear the fire suits which are only three thousandths of an inch thick. They plunge into a 3000 degree inferno. People watch the fire fighters. The fire fighters emerge unsigned from the fire. One fireman takes off his helmet and smiles.
A large crowd gathers for the oath taking ceremony of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt in Capitol, Washington DC. Motorcade of President of United States comes to Capitol. Crowds in fore ground. Various views of crowd. Views of Capitol with inaugural platform and people. Franklin Delano Roosevelt takes an oath to faithfully execute the office of President of United States and to protect the constitution of United States.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the Americans from the U.S. Capitol, United States, during his third Inauguration as President. Views of Capitol with inaugural platform and crowds. An Eagle insignia on the building. Roosevelt delivers a speech. He talks about downfall in American democracy and human rights. He adds: We must build the security, the opportunity and the knowledge of every citizen in major justified by the resources and capacity of lands to achieve purposes.
Red Army advances against German forces in Poland. At the front Marshall Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov and Soviet officers look at a map. (Marshal Zhukov has cotton stuffed in his ears.) German ME-110 aircraft dive bomb Soviet positions. Soviet Ilyushin II-2 aircraft bomb German positions. Smoking terrain of battlefield. Soviet troops cross river in small boats. Soviets conduct an amphibious assault. There are explosions on the opposite shore. Russian infantry advances under German fire, cutting barbed wire and marking position of land mines. Soviet tanks and artillery fire. Marshalls Georgy Zhukov and Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovskiy look at a map. Shells explode and Soviet infantry advances past German antitank barricades. At the command post Marshall Georgy Zhukov looks at a map. Views of German defensive fortifications, including Barbed wire entanglements; concrete forts and bunkers, one with barbed wire on top and a periscope on a steel turret. German antitank barricades along the river. (World War II period).
Soviet forces break through German lines on Eastern front during World War II. An animated map with arrows showing Soviet forces counterattacks against German forces in region from Warsaw and 100km South, to Radom. Soviet artillery and rocket batteries firing. A formation of Soviet Ilyushin II-2 Sturmovik aircraft in flight. Bomb explosions and smoke shrouded battlefield. Soviet artillery fired. Views of burning buildings. Dead German soldiers and wrecked German artillery. Soviet tanks and infantry advance through dense smoke. Heavy Soviet guns fire and resultant explosion in distance. Soviet and Polish soldiers embrace in front of Polish National flag. Polish soldier salutes the flag with two-finger salute.
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