America enters World War I. President Woodrow Wilson looks out from a window in his office. He speaks over a phone. Sheep graze on a grazing ground. The White House in the background. President Wilson at his desk as he signs a note. Officers and the President at the drawing of drafts. An officer blind folds the President and he draws a draft number.
Young German girls of Hitler Youth work in Polish annexed fields. They pluck ripe fruits from the field. Two women on a mule cart. A woman plucks cabbage from field. Horses drink water. A group of young German boys works on a thresher. A woman comes home and meets two young girls. She gives water to a calf.
Bow view of Allied destroyer plunging through seas during World War 2. A supply ship sinking in the Atlantic. A lifeboat filled with survivors from a sunken ship. A freighter with stern in the air as she sinks. Survivors in the water and on a lifeboat. French troops deploying into the Maginot Line. They ride narrow gauge subway cars inside the fortress complex. View of Copenhagen, Denmark. German troops marching into Denmark. Smoke rising from bombed areas of Norway. Norwegians watch from sidewalk as German troops march into their city. Fires burning at night in Norway. German self-propelled heavy guns and Krupp K5 railway guns during invasion of Holland and Belgium, on May 9, 1940. They are followed by numerous Panzer II tanks and a closeup of a German Panzerkampfwagen 38(t) (originally the Czech LT vz. 38 tank) climbing a steep incline with front completely in mid air before coming down on the other side. German trucks and motorized weapons moving through the low countries and from behind, past dragon's teeth antitank barriers, of the Maginot Line. German soldiers with machine guns aboard a train headed toward France. German troops destroying border barriers as they proceed through Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. They pass a large windmill. German motorcycle troops. A formation of German single-engine twin-tailed aircraft in flight overhead. (possibly early versions of Ju-87?)
Interior view of German Heinkel H-111 bomber, as parachute equipped crewman stands over open bottom hatch of the aircraft. View from another airplane of the H-111 with objects appearing to parachute from it. Chutes are not open. One seems to stream, without opening.
Damage due to German bombardment in Antwerp, Belgium. Destroyed buildings and houses. Rubble on the street. Men dig out rubble. People watch. Belgian refugees flee during World War II. They load furniture and luggage in trucks. Interior of a destroyed church.
German invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939. German troops cross bridge. German artillery fires. German Ju 87 Stuka bomber aircraft in flight. Polish antiaircraft gunners on rooftop. street scenes in Warsaw. Poles run for cover in air raid. German Ju 88 aircraft bombing Warsaw. German soldier throwing hand grenade. Polish man driving team of horses flees bombing. Woman with new born baby. Polish victims of bombing laid out on ground. Americans and British citizens listening to radio broadcasts about the invasion. Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in London. Prime Minister Chamberlain at his desk. City of Westminster and 10 Downing street with Bobbie on guard. British men building a Anderson shelter (bomb shelter) and covering it with dirt. British civilians being fitted with gas masks. Barrage balloons aloft. Newly recruited and mobilized British troops marching on a street in England with children on bicycles riding next to them.
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