images of Army Technical training manuals dealing with gas masks; camouflage; heavy tanks; and machine guns. U.S. Army Service Forces (ASF) recruits rushing down a hillside into waters of a swift river and swimming across. They undergo Live Fire Exercises near \end of their training. The must crawl while trainers fire rounds from a Browning M 1917 machine gun over their heads. An explosive charge goes off as the recruits crawl past. ASF troops are briefed about invasion techniques, by an instructor using a realistic small scale mockup of a port city. Recruits crouch over a model of front line terrain. Model trains operate as a training aid. Students at doorway of the U.S. Army School of Military Government. Numerous student studying in the library. In a classroom, a military officer instructor discusses the mission of governing an occupied country with cooperation of the existing governing officials. Closeups of officers discussing the occupation of Germany, at length. (World War II period).
World War I draft dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll arrives at the New York Harbor in New York. He is seized by military officials as he ends his 20 year exile in Germany. A steamer underway. Bergdoll with his wife and child.
U.S. Army Sergeant York passes away in the United States on September 2, 1964. Scenes from the life of Sergeant York. Alvin York seen flashing the 'V' for victory sign. York in the front yard of his home. Newspaper headline reads, 'War with Germany.' World War I newly drafted men in civilian clothing marching along with tags pinned to their civilian clothes. World War 1 new recruits undergoing physical examination as they enter the U.S. Army. Soldiers standing in formation learning to drill. Closeup of front of artillery piece as it fires. Trench fighting against the enemy on a World War I battlefield. A soldier hurls an explosive toward no man's land. Soldiers rushing out of trenches going "over the top" to charge the enemy. Sergeant York in uniform during WWI. Later in life, Sergeant York is seen seated in a car with his wife as photographers scramble to take photos. Sergeant York at the White House with his family. York receives a citation from the Gold Star Mothers Club and then gives a short speech.
Private Snafu in the U.S. Army during World War II. Animation shows supply of food and other things to soldiers. A bull and a cow get married. They enter a room. Nazi Germany and the Japan declare war at that time. Guns loaded on freight cars passing on railroads. A ship underway at sea. Periscopes of submarines emerging out of water. The bull aboard a ship and then a boat. It travels by a truck, a dog sled and then a camel. A snow covered area. A truck passing on a bridge. The bridge explodes. U.S. airplanes in flight overhead. Food and other supplies are dropped from the airplanes. Private Snafu seated on his bed in a barrack. A chow call for the soldiers. Private Snafu takes a large quantity of food. He sits near a tree and eats the food. He wastes some of the food and throws it in a dustbin.
View of the French Legion Headquarters in London, with flag at half-mast following the capitulation of France to Germany in World War II. Several French officers, including French Admiral Emile Henry Muselier, who support General Charles de Gaulle and his free French forces, walking on the sidewalk. General de Gaulle enters his Headquarters at St. Stephens House (Present day Norman Shaw Building South, 1 Victoria Embankment, London WC2N 5AQ, United Kingdom) in London, and broadcasts, via the BBC, to the French nation, exhorting them to continue fighting, with their Allies, against the Germans.
A former German prisoner of war in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Former prisoner of war, Reinhold Pabel, is the proprietor of a local book store when the FBI locates him. Views of several shelves of books in the Chicago Book Mart store. Pabel places a book in a rack. His wife and 8 month old child are seen in the book store. Pabel plays with his son. He faces deportation back to Germany, after having established himself in Chicago under a new name.
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