German fighter planes take off. View of formation of German fighter planes in sky. Planes strafe enemy positions. Aerial view of enemy positions. (World War II period).
Views of battle between German Panzer Units and Allied Forces. SS troop soldier looks through binocular from trenches. Explosions raise huge clouds of smoke. Close up of SS tank ace Michael Wittmann and loader on a Tiger tank of s.SS.Pz.Abt.101. (Wittmann wears Knights Cross and Swords military decoration.) German SS grenadiers in position. Views of wrecked Allied tanks. Artillery is fired. German soldiers fighting on streets. (World War II period).
Submarine crew looking through binoculars. German submarine sets off. View from submarine viewfinder. Inside submarine, operations going on. Ship explodes. Submarine going inside water. German Officer looking through a viewfinder. Bomb falling from a plane, explosion takes place. (World War II period).
Chairman of the committee receives Blue Riband Trophy from representative of Italian line and member of the committee. Chairman of the committee presents the Blue Riband Trophy to Captain Rene Pugnet as the trophy is won by SS Normandie for French Line. Dignitaries surround the trophy. Captain Rene Pugnet gives a short thanksgiving address.
Poster of French actress Sarah Bernhardt as Queen Elizabeth in motion picture. Views of the running film. Fragments of other films. Cowboy movie star William S. Hart.
Opening scene shows a contingent of Belgian soldiers carrying their rifles and packs as they walk in loose formation across a rutted frozen field during World War 1. Next, several are seen, briefly, firing their rifles from behind an earthen berm. A glimpse of the soldiers trying to get a fire going near a makeshift shelter. Brief view of the soldiers being issued towels and toiletries. Change of scene shows some French soldiers standing on a wooden pontoon bridge, bypassing the original bombed out one in the background. A team of horses pulls a wagon across the bridge. Next, a troop of mounted French cavalry are shown (from the rear) as they proceed toward the front, along a road, lined by trees. A Red Cross covered wagon is being pulled along in their formation. Momentary glimpse of a French 320mm railway gun with some smoke rising from its barrel after firing. Belgian soldiers on the firing line in a shallow trench in no man's land. As they fire their rifles, one of them is hit and helped to the rear by companions.
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