American soldiers in Italy, during Allied Operation Husky, and Operation Avalanche in World War 2. In landings during invasion of Salerno, Italy, soldiers pause their movements while two use a detector to search for possible buried mines. They detect one and are seen carefully digging it up from the sandy soil. Soldiers unroll steel matting across an area of beach. Close-up of heavy trucks moving across the matting. A bulldozer uses a cable to pull a section of temporary docking out of an LST (Landing ship tank). Troops move across several sections of such docking as they make their way onto the shore. A sherman tank making its way toward the shore . More heavy equipment coming ashore from LSTs, including a US M1 155mm “Long Tom” Gun. The gun being towed on shore, as trucks and jeeps maneuver through shallow water nearby. A long line of jeeps and trucks moving inland. Military vehicles being offloaded from the British Landing Ship Tank (HM LST-200). U.S. troops moving on a beachhead, along with artillery pieces, and vehicles. Soldiers carrying boxes of supplies and ammunition and struggling with large wooden crates of such, in shallow surf, and using a roller conveyor to offload some heavy items from a ship. A landing craft suspended from a cable operated A-Frame on wheels (in the water). At this point the thrust of the film shifts to illustrate the hazards of amphibious operations, in general. Swamped vehicles and a landing craft in the surf. The beach littered with damaged and swamped landing craft and equipment, including, among others, a landing craft from the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). A huge explosion in the water. Glimpse of a German Junkers Ju 87 (Stuka) dive bomber attacking while being shot down by a U.S. sailor firing an anti-aircraft gun . View from above of sailors firing twin bofors 40mm antiaircraft cannons from an emplacement on a ship. Several German Junkers Ju 87 planes maneuvering as they attack. Quad bofors antiaircraft guns firing from a ship. More attacking Ju-87 dive bombers on the attack. A dramatic explosion and smoke from the Liberty ship SS Robin Rowan after being hit by a German bomb off the coast of Gela, Sicily on July 11, 1943. A landing ship burning from German bombing, off Gela, Sicily, with its deck full of halftrack and personnel carrier vehicles. The film continues the theme of losses encountered in wartime amphibious assaults, by shifting to the Pacific theater of operation, where a Landing Ship Tank (LST) is seen ablaze, off Guadalcanal, after being hit by Japanese shelling. View from beach with barbed wire, ashore, of the burning LST. Sherman tanks lost in a conflagration aboard an LST. Sailors carry a casualty on a litter, and place it next to other fallen crew members, on deck.
Close-ups of Soviet soldiers aiming their rifles. British soldiers, carrying Enfield rifles, advance in rocky terrain. Allied Colonial troops fighting in jungles. Paratroopers jumping from an airplane. American soldiers following an armored vehicle through heavy foliage, and then running through a street and taking defensive positions during combat in a battle damaged town. An American M3 Lee medium tank (with name “Andy” written on it) firing its heavy gun in the center of a town. Its Shell bursts in a building and blows part of it into the street. The troops continue advancing and walk over a sign on the ground,displaying a swastika. Scenes shift to home fronts of Allied countries, where people are working in machine shops, forges, welding shops, and war plants, fabricating weapons. Final scene shows two American soldiers firing a Browning M1917 water-cooled machine gun.
Mary Churchill, daughter of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, visits the United States. Mary Churchill visits a WAC (Women's Army Corps) camp in World War 2. Mary Churchill steps out of a building wearing uniform. She speaks to WAC personnel. She inspects an all-women lifeguard unit. Lifeguard unit demonstrate lifesaving. Mary Churchill sits on a lifeguard chair and puts on sunglasses.
"British and Russian forces occupy Iran " Anglo Soviet troops loaded in armored troop carriers move on the streets of Tehran as local people look on. Tanks roll out and soldiers and officers of the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom meet each other and shake hands. (World War II period).
Nazi leaders Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Baldur Von Schiarch, Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel wearing headphones sit in prisoners dock and listen to testimony during Nuremberg trials in Germany. Hess sits with his head lowered, appearing ill. A man comes and speaks to him. Ribbentrop talks to Hess who then leaves the prisoner's dock. Policemen stand at the end of the dock. Men at British and American prosecution tables.
United States 900th Airborne Engineers move away from the construction site of an airstrip in Tamu, Burma. They march into the jungle and served food. British and Australian soldiers eat food. (World War II period).
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