Film begins showing a British Spitfire aircraft in flight overhead, viewed from a warship. Next the British aircraft carrier, HMS Formidable (67) is seen and an Atlanta class light cruiser nearby. A Corsair fighter plane circles the carrier and lands on it. It is followed by another that executes a missed approach, goes around and returns again to land. Two battleships are seen and then other warships and the carrier in the distance. A light cruiser is viewed from a following ship having twin guns in a forward turret. Several warships silhouetted against the sky in the distance. Near land, barrage balloons are seen in the sky. Several transport ships in the distance with barrage balloons above them. Ships headed toward a port with a city behind it.
As film begins, a U.S. Navy officer and Army officer coordinate a list of soldiers to board a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) in the port of Tunis, North Africa. Rubble of damaged and destroyed building is behind them. U.S. Army troops are next seen on the waterfront. They begin moving along the docks where LCIs are tied up. Other troops are assembled on the wharf waiting to enter the docks. Extended series of views showing closeups of soldier's combat boots stepping along the gangplank to an LCI. Next, is view from a dock as column of soldiers walk slowly past the camera toward their LSIs. Another view of troops and LSIs from further away. Broad view of the waterfront with docked LCIs and war ships in the distance. Closer view of docks, troops, and LCIs, and warships in the harbor.
German civilians carrying shovels move towards a common burial ground in Nordhausen, Germany during World War II. U.S. Army soldiers look at an open burial pit filled with corpses of concentration camp prisoners and victims of German atrocities.
U.S. soldiers of 89th Infantry division with the aid of German civilians exhume corpses of Polish and Russian prisoners from a burial pit at a slave labor camp in Arnstadt, Germany. A corpse with crushed head is pulled out of the pit. An empty dog kennel. Exterior view of the concentration camp used to keep prisoners. (World War II period).
German civilians carry corpses of the prisoners to a common burial ground outside the concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany. Several mutilated corpses of the prisoners lying outside the prison area. Catholic chaplain conducts burial rites at an altar set up on the hood of a U.S. Army jeep. Sick and dying prisoners are carried on stretcher to ambulances by U.S. medics and military police of the 3rd Armored Division and First U.S. Army (FUSA) soldiers. Several scenes of emaciated victims lying on stretchers. (World War II period).
Shows emaciated prisoners seated amidst rubble at a concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany. Scenes of freed prisoners eating and talking. Prisoners and corpses inside prison barracks. A starved prisoner eats an egg. Decaying cadavers of victims on filthy prison floors. Prisoners laying down on makeshift bedding or bunk areas. (World War II period).
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