Former U.S. Ambassador to the UK Joseph Kennedy records a speech for radio in Washington DC during World War II. U.S. Ambassador to the UK Joseph Kennedy speaks about mobilization of troops in war and says that World War II is an industrial war. Joseph Kennedy suggests that speedy rearmament is the only way United States can stay out of war.
German diplomats and Japanese officials arrive in Yokosuka during World War II. People aboard ship wave flags as ship enters the Yokosuka harbor. German diplomats and Japanese officials including Japanese Prince Oskova aboard the ship. German diplomats and Japanese officials disembark from the ship. Diplomats are welcomed, get into cars and leave.
A Japanese official gives a speech in Japan during World War II. Japanese officials seated and speaking.
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.
Reenactment (at Randolph Field, Texas) illustrating the arrival of new recruits into the U.S. Army Air Forces flying cadet program. Large group of new cadets walking across an area carrying personal baggage. All dressed in civilian clothing, they walk up the steps to a veranda on a building at the base. There are two takes of the scene. Best regards, Tom
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