General D Espere, Commander-in-Chief greets Commanders of Allied forces in Salonika, the Balkans. They discuss amongst themselves. Building in the background. General shakes hands with the Commanders.
A group of Cossacks march in the Balkans. A snow covered area. Houses and trees covered with snow in the background. Turkish prisoners of war march. The wounded prisoners are carried on horse-carts. Other prisoners walk in the snow covered area. They wear warm clothes.
King Ferdinand arrives at the railway station in Balkans, Bulgaria. Men gather to greet him. They salute Ferdinand. Ferdinand talks to the officers.
Serbian regiment entrenched by a high wall on bank of the Czerna Reka river in the Balkans, in World War 1. The guns of the soldiers lean against the wall. They rest . Building in the background. (WWI; WW1)
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.
A U.S. arms manufacturing in World War 1. Hundreds of war production workers seen at shift change, waiting for their respective trolley cars passing on tracks between arms manufacturing plant's buildings. Women at work on metal working machines in an arms factory. Racks of Browning Automatic Rifles (Rifle, Caliber .30, Automatic, Browning, M1918) are being moved about. Assemblers are seen hand fitting parts for the Browning M1917 water cooled machine gun. One man makes final assembly adjustments to one of the machine guns set up on tripod in the factory. He enjoys firing the Browning M1917 machine gun. (Note:The M1917 and M1918 BAR were manufactured by numerous American arms makers. Colt, Remington, Marlin, Royal typewriter, Winchester. Most of the M1917 machine guns were manufactured by New England Westinghouse.)