German planes bombing Sevastopol. Map of Ukraine highlights Sevastopol. German planes bomb Sevastopol. German pilots fly bombers. Explosions on field. Demolished Russian fortifications. Wrecked buildings and rubble. (World War II period).
A clearing in the woods, Compiegne, France. German Honor Guard at attention, and their band plays. French Government plenipotentiaries, General Charles L.C. Huntzinger,Ambassador Noel, Rear Admiral Maurice R LeLuc, Air Corps General Georges Parisot, and Air Corps General Jean-Marie Joseph Bergeret, accompanied by German Quartermaster General , Lieutenant-General kurt von Tippelskirch, and German Colonel Thomas, walk towards a railroad car. Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering are seated at a table. Following behind their German escorts, General Huntzinger salutes Hitler and the German delegation, with Admiral Le Luc, at his side. View of General Keitel's hands holding document as he reads preamble to the Armistice Agreement. View of three German bombers in flight.
The London Blitz. Sections of London ablaze from German bombing during Battle of Britain. US President Franklin Roosevelt signing H.R. 1946, Lend-Lease legislation in World War II. View of last page of H.R.1946, signed by Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and by President Roosevelt. United States sends war material to England. 'USA' written on Lend-Lease boxes being loaded on lorry after arrival in Britain. Huge crates of Lend-Lease war materiel on railroad flat cars pulled by locomotive. Smoke rises up from the engine. 'Machine tools, BULLARD, Bridgeport Conn.' written on crate in transit.
Crowds gathering around parliament during tense period on eve of British entry into World War II. Film opens showing several Well-dressed women political campaigners outside parliament, carrying placards for Churchill. They walk quickly through the crowd gathered there. London Bobbies trying to maintain order, urge several women with children to move back. View of the area thronged with people. A large group standing at the gates of the old palace yard, Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament). Several Bobbies are among the crowd. Blurred camera view from rapidly moving vehicle passing crowds gathered all around the area. Crowd gathered at the St. Stephens entrance, Houses of Parliament. The Evening Standard Newspaper front page displayed on a lamp post by vendor, reads: "Americans Told to Leave Britain." Closeup of equestrian statue of King Richard I, the Lionheart, at Parliament (Palace of Westminster).
Film opens showing animated map of the Finnish Front during World War 2. Two Finnish women are seen search the horizon with binoculars and keeping a log of some kind. Uniformed Finnish men and women ride with supplies on sleighs pulled by tractors. A group of them are seen at an outdoor field kitchen getting a meal. Women take blood from a uniformed Finnish woman volunteer donor. Women lined up in a wooded area are being decorated by a Finnish officer. A large number of Soviet prisoners of war (some showing minor wounds bandaged) is directed up a hill to begin work on defensive positions. Some carry long logs. Closeup of some prisoners passing the camera. Prisoners shoveling sandy soil and carrying building materials.
Members of a U.S. 7th Army tank-infantry team takes time out during NATO "Exercise Monte Carlo" to sample fresh baked local German bread. They surround a soldier who carves large slices from a loaf and distributes them to team members. The troops are seen chewing the bread. Another loaf being cut. Two tank crew members sit atop their tank while they eat bread. Infantrymen clamber aboard the tank.
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