Anti-German Partisan resistance in Nazi occupied areas of Yugoslavia during World War II. Partisans martial their forces in the wooded hills. Partisans fire guns at Italians in a ravine. Dead Italian soldiers. An Axis convoy of trucks under attack by partisans in hills above. Axis troops patrol in a Yugoslav village backyard. A poster offering an award for capture of Partisan leader. Pictures show hanging of Yugoslav Partisans and their execution by Nazi German firing squads. Yugoslav Partisans receive arms on a mountainside. Contingent of uniformed Partisans (including several women) march with arms. Partisans setting up explosives. Detonated explosives. Partisans charge from hilltops. Dead German soldiers. Partisans returning to their villages from the hills. More war dead. Uniformed partisans march into a village. Partisans firing field artillery at German positions. Adolf Hitler shakes hands with Ante Pavelic, head of Croatia. Germans launch an offensive against partisans, whose families flee further into the mountainous and forested regions of the country.
Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie arrives in Yugoslavia. An airplane parked at an air base. Emperor Selassie comes out of the airplane. Officials gather at the airport to greet him. An official shakes hands with him. Selassie reviews troops. He sits in a Rolls Royce car. His motorcade passes on the streets and he stands in the moving car and waves to people gathered along the sides of the street. Buildings along the sides of the street.
A uniformed member of the U.S. Women's Army Corps (WAC) reads a letter from a soldier named Sergeant Lowry, asking why Army-Navy Screen Magazine doesn't show pictures of Marshal Tito, famous Yugoslav patriot. In response, the next scene shows rugged mountains of Yugoslavia, where Marshal Tito has his headquarters, in World War II. Closeup of Marshal Tito flanked on his left, by British Brigadier General Fitzroy Maclean, Winston Churchill's special envoy to the Yugoslav leader, and on his right, barely seen, U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Officer, Army Major Linn M. Farish, American Liaison to the Partisans. The three step down to a lower porch at the headquarters building, where Major Farish pumps his arm in the air several times as he speaks to General Maclean. Tito smiles, smokes his pipe, and makes some comment to them. The scene shifts to a British military photographer as he finishes taking a still picture of Tito and his principal staff officers, standing in a group, along with Tito's dog, Tigar.
A Battalion of Yugoslav Partisans in Yugoslavia during World War II. Partisans assembled on a field as four company commanders step forward and salute the Battalion commander, who gives them an order. The four officers salute and return to ranks. The Battalion commander reviews troops, including women in uniform. He talks to a an older officer. Closeups of several women partisans. Some partisans display their mustaches. One soldier twirls the end of his mustache. Two women wearing Red Cross on their sleeves.
OSS agents on a fishing boat leaving dock. Marshal Tito at Supreme Headquarters of the Yugoslav Partisans (also known as Tito’s Cave) in Drvar, Yugoslavia in World War II. Close up of Josip Broz Tito. Yugoslav Partisans soldiers marching on a field.
A U.S. Air Force C-47 plane lands in Belgrade, Yugoslavia during World War II. British and U S, civilian and military officials disembark and are greeted by a U.S. military officer..