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The Maginot Line and its inner workings. Allied forces marshaling to confront Nazi Germany early in World War II
Film opens with animated map showing the Maginot Line and attacks along it by Britiish and French and French Armies. Then it shows German Armies breaking through the line. Camera focuses along lines of steel post antitank barriers extending out of sight. Map illustrates fortifications in area labeled Maginot Line and shows vertical cross-section cutaway view of the Maginot Line fortifications. A French soldier is seen tending to an engine running deep inside the fortifications. French officers are seen near a large electric generator and large ducts for ventilation to the soldiers underground. French soldiers at a switch board in a communications center. French troops are seen double-time marching out from their quarters at the Maginot Line. Next they enter forts in the line. Closeup of soldiers' feet as they board narrow-gauge train to take them to their respective battle stations in the Maginot complex. View of the train carrying passengers through its tunnels. A French soldier moving large steel containers suspended on overhead trolleys. They appear to contain ammunition. A cook at work in a kitchen within the fort. French soldiers entertaining themselves, singing and clapping as one of them dances. A slate in the film reads:"Nous Vaincrons parce que nous sommes les plus forts" (We win because we are the strongest.) French troops marching to war. Animated map shows Areas under French control, including Colonial Africa, together with German-occupied areas. It shows other forces building up including those from British colonies and Canada and Australia. Closeup of French Colonial soldiers. French allied troops from various regions in the world marching. Massive parade of troops along the The Avenue des Champs-Élysées, in Paris, with the Arc de Triomphe behind them.
Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division in England and during the invasion of Normandy and subsequent campaigns toward Germany (WW2)
Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division training in England under General Clarence R Huebner, in preparation for the D-Day Normandy invasion in World War II. U.S. Navy ships underway at sea. Heavy naval guns bombard the coast of France on D-Day. U.S. Army soldiers seen during assault on Omaha beach with heavy losses on D-Day. U.S. soldiers and tanks encounter heavy German resistance in the "hedge rows." American soldiers digging trenches with shovels and picks and treating wounded comrade. Dead German soldier lying in street as Americans enter the town of Caumont (Caumont l'Eventé). Frenchman civilian pours wine for American soldier after they liberated Caumont l'Eventé from the entrenched German forces. An American helps a French civilian woman to reach a safe place crossing rubble. Damaged French houses along the sides of street. During rest, a soldier gives another a haircut, and another writes a letter. U.S. Air Force B-17s fly overhead and bomb near St. Lo, France on July 25, 1944. Other U.S. Army artillery units, the 4th and 9th Divisions, and General Patton's tanks provided support so the 1st Infantry (First Infantry or Big Red One) could occupy the area. Army combat engineers dig up mines and use construction equipment to clear debris. Wrecked houses and rubble. U.S. soldiers keep advancing through towns and eat and rest as they can. Road sign reads: "Coutances." First Infantry goes through Mortain, Etampes, Meaux, Soissons and across the Belgian border. German prisoners of war walk with their hands raised. German soldier digging out of fox hole. Siegfried Line and dragons teeth. Strong German resistance encountered at Aachen. Tanks fire in the field. House to house fighting in Aachen. Surrender of Aachen. A German flag laying in the street is run over by a U.S. military vehicle. German resistance is heavy during battle scenes in Battle of Hürtgen Forest. German and American artillery are seen in Hurtgen Forest. U.S. wounded treated. The 1st Division is pulled out for rest at the rear, in Belgium.
Large crowd in New York City marches to demonstrate against the barbarism of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany
Anti Nazi marchers parade down Fifth Avenue in New York City, demonstrating against German leader Adolf Hitler and Fascism, in a rally and protest organized by the American Jewish Congress. American flags carried. Empire State Building seen in background. Protestors demonstrate against Adolf Hitler.and the Nazis. Jewish war veterans of World War 1 are seen, some in World War I uniforms. They parade through Washington Square Park.
Dramatization: German guard supervises workers packing and shipping art from U.S. Museum of Modern Art in New York to Germany
Dramatization: Shipping room of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. U.S. workers packing up art. Several paintings and art subjects. German guard supervises. Man brings in box to be stenciled. It reads 'Brooklyn museum of Art.' Box stenciled with destination address 'ReichsMarschall Hermann W. Goring..."
British night bombers attack Bremen,and Germany retaliates by bombing Coventry, in World War II
A British citizen is seen waving and giving the "V for Victory" sign to trucks passing by carrying British troops during World War 2. View of British fliers assembled on the tarmac in front of a Vickers Wellington twin engine bomber, as a string of trolleys carrying bombs moves along the ground near them. Closeup of the bombs on the trolleys. British RAF officers at telephones discussing a night's planned mission involving 10 aircraft. Glimpse of Vickers Wellington bombers and trolleys of bombs on an airfield. RAF officer and assistants (including 2 women) discussing targeting. Officer mentions photographs of submarine yards and they study them. Scene shifts to the targeting officer briefing air crews about their night's mission, to bomb the German submarine and ship building yards at Bremen. View of photographs. View of aircrew members in briefing room. Views of aircrew boarding their Welllington bomber; engine running; and pilot in cockpit. Other Wellington bombers cranking up. The bombers takeoff at dusk. Pilot in one checking with his rear gunner, and radio operator, while they are in flight. Two bombers silhouetted against sky while in flight. Crew member annotating navigation log. Scene shifts to German pilots on the ground, being scrambled to their Messerschitt Bf 109 aircraft. German searchlights scan the sky and soldiers run to man their 12.8 cm Flak 40 antiaircraft guns. Flashes from these guns are seen in the darkness. Some British Wellington bombers flying through clouds with Flak bursts around them. Pilot in a bomber tells his crew they are entering a glide. View of bomber in sharp decent. Antiaircraft batteries firing rapidly. Bombardier at station in a bomber. View of bomb in bomb bay. Bombardier presses button releasing several bombs. Explosions on the ground. Antiaircraft batteries firing furiously. Pilot in cockpit illuminated by flare of bombs and fires. Camera pans across burning buildings on the ground. Closeup of Adolf Hitler vowing revenge. Slate reads: "November 14th, 1940." Views of German bomber aircraft in night raid over Britain during Battle of Britain. Bombs bursting and antiaircraft fire during blitz. View of Coventry, England, in the dawn after the raids. Destroyed and severely damaged buildings, some still burning. Aerial views of some of the destruction. People walking past rubble. Camera captures image as remains of one building collapse. Skeletons of buildings silhouetted against the foggy sky. Survivors on the streets huddle at a bulletin board to read news posted there. Teams of firefighters and others trying to deal with the destruction and pulling victims from the rubble and carrying them for burial in a common grave. Survivors placing garlands of flowers on the graves.
Abandoned war equipment and Polish prisoners of war during the Invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939
The German viewpoint of events during the Polish Campaign in Poland. A map of Poland shows Kutno and Warsaw. Abandoned war equipment and Polish prisoners of war. Damaged tanks and other war equipment in a water body.
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