Japanese officers arrive by train in a Japanese town during World War II. Japanese troops lined up on dock. A Japanese battleship docked in the background. Troops board the battleship. Troops lined up at a railroad station. Japanese officials disembark from a train and walk by the troops lined up. The officials get into cars. A Japanese officer seated in a horse-drawn carriage moving along a road.
Opening scene shows Adolf Hitler with an entourage of military officers walking from a tunnel beside two steam locomotives parked on a railroad track, during World War 2. The group continues between to large berms lining the area. They approach a construction project of concrete with lots of wooden framing in place around it. Scene shifts to a Krupp 283mm K5 railway gun on rails in the sand. A large earthen berm is seen behind the gun. Hitler converses with officers at the site. Next, a closeup shows the gun barrel being elevated. Hitler looks at another K5 gun with its barrel down. He then proceeds into a sand-bagged revetment leading to a doorway and underground tunnel. Next, he is seen emerging from the tunnel onto the courtyard of what appears to be a church. A large body of German soldiers is assembled there. They render the Nazi salute. Closeup of Hitler atop the area defenses, where coastal guns of the Atlantic Wall are installed in sand-bagged revetments. Views of gun crews firing these coastal guns out to sea, in a demonstration.
Volunteer Fascist Youth march to war in Italy during World War II. Gioventù Italiana del Littorio (GIL) members march on streets with packs on their backs in Genoa, Italy. Groups of Fascist youth gather in front of the Arco della Vittoria (Piazza della Vittoria, 1, 16121 Genova GE, Italy) in Genoa. An Italian speaker gives a speech. Civilians watch standing on sides of the street. A group of Italian women clap their hands and cheer.
Native workers fell trees and and clear land for an aqueducts in Italian Somaliland. They dig channels for the aqueducts, by hand. They employ farm machinery to prepare fields for crops and manually maintain channels in fields of crops for irrigation. They harvest papaya, bananas and tobacco. The tobacco is strung on lines to dry and then packed in wooden boxes. Natives pick cotton, which they carry back to an area for cleaning and packing into bales that are carried to a train depot by camels.
A German Destroyer Flotilla underway in the Bay of Biscay. The German destroyer patrols the bay with mortar torpedo boats. A fleet of German Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers in flight. A British ship underway. Officers look through binoculars aboard the ship. The German Destroyer Flotilla fires torpedo on the British ship and sinks it. The ship is sinking. (World War II period).
Scenes in Italian shipyard during World War 2. Shipyard workers repairing the bow of the Italian Regia Marina Navigatori-class destroyer Ugolino Vivaldi, which was damaged when it rammed and destroyed the British submarine HMS Oswald. The destroyer then rescued surviving British submariners (now prisoners of war) who are seen walking in formation. They are seen again, carrying hand tools and performing agricultural work. British sailors show their tattoos. One shows a butterfly tattoo on his back and a snake tattoo on his hand.
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