British troops march to dock and board LCM. Air Force planes in the sky. View of convoy in English channel. Barrage balloons float up into the sky. British officer looks through binocular. Warships in harbor fire on French coast. Many warships in channel for attack on French coast. (World War II period).
Views of battle between German Panzer Units and Allied Forces south of Caen, France, during World War 2. SS troop soldier looks through binocular from trenches. Explosions raise huge clouds of smoke. Close up view of SS tank ace Michael Wittmann and loader on a German Tiger tank of s.SS.Pz.Abt.101. (Wittmann wears Knights Cross and Swords military decoration.) German SS grenadiers in position. German tanks firing. Multiple views of wrecked British tanks, including one on its side. An abandoned British soldier helmet and gas mask on the ground. German artillery is fired. German soldier prone firing MG 34 machine gun equipped with TM 34 75-round double-drum magazine. German soldiers fighting in streets of town. Heavily bombed buildings of a French town south of Caen. German soldiers moving building to building. German soldiers firing flamethrower.
Slate reads (in Russian) "Departure from Moscow by Mr. Harry Hopkins." Harry Hopkins, President Franklin Roosevelt's personal envoy, steps from a car and receives farewell expressions from a British Admiral and army officer, as he prepares to board an airplane departing Moscow, after negotiating American Lend Lease assistance to the Soviet Union, during World War 2. Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin, arrives in a car and walks to the group saying goodby to Hopkins. Two Soviet officers and two men in civilian clothes stand on the airport ramp. American Ambassador, Lawrence Steinhardt and British Ambassador, Sir Stafford Cripps chat with an American Army Air Forces pilot. Group of diplomats and military officers gather wishing Hopkins well. Hopkins conversing with Chairman Kalinin. Hopkins making the rounds shaking hands with diplomats and a final vigorous one with Kalinin. He climbs aboard the waiting C-47 transport plane. It taxis out and is next seen flying overhead as those on the ground wave goodby.
Ship's C.O. with a U.S. Navy Captain, come out on the deck. A British Merchant Marine Captain talks with the U.S. Navy Captain (Navy Captain has a sub. insignia over his breast pocket). U.S. Navy officer smokes a pipe on the deck. Two junior U.S. Navy officers on the deck. U.S. Navy Commander on weather deck. Two British crewmen with a U.S. Navy officer, look out over the sea. Rocket-type launcher in a tub, above weather deck. Sign reads 'Stand Well Clear, When Klaxon Sounds'. Rocket launchers on ship. One of the gun mounts fire in the background. Crew on weather deck, near fantail area. Wake of the ship in the background. Crew fires 4'' gun on stern of the ship. Gun crew on gun, breech opened. Crew works around rear of the gun. Gun fires. Small group of weather deck. U.S.A. officer, U.S.N. officer and a ship's officer talk. Weather deck of the ship and crew walk by in foreground. Personnel look at a plane in flight. (World War II period).
Events early in World War I. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria gets out of the car and walks with military escorts in front of troop formation. French troops happily enter protected fortified area. Woven wooden supports for trench. French Colonial soldier smiles as he poses in trench with rifle. German Kaiser Wilhelm II leads procession in front of honor guard. Ladies are in attendance. German parade led by goose stepping military band. Russian cavalry and the mass of autos. German lancers. Sign posted in France, announcing general mobilization of Army and Navy. French street scene with notices being passed out among the population. French Legionnaires march in crowded street. British palace guards parade in London followed by British Horse Guards. Belgian refugees walking along a roadside and cattle pulling wagons loaded with refugee belongings.
Map of Europe highlights Foggia, Italy and London, United Kingdom from where Allied bombers take off to attack German targets in World War II. British officer in United Kingdom briefs young pilots from the Allied forces. United States Army Air Force Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighters take off. Consolidated B-24 Liberator and Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers take off. Aerial view showing Allied aircraft strafe and bomb German factories, shipyards, submarine bases, airfields, and oil refineries. Smoke rises from aerial bomb sites. British aircraft attack German war production centers at night. Airplane strafes a moving train. Explosions on German airfield. A fighter pilot wearing oxygen mask behind the cockpit. A gunner firing with machine gun on board a bomber. Dogfight scenes as German fighter aircraft attack bombers. German planes in flames. Allied planes down German fighters over Europe.
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