Scenes from relay race and award ceremony during 1936 Olympic games in Berlin Germany. The race starts. Participants of relay race run on race track. Runners exchange baton. Spectators cheer participants. Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler, and Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels among spectators. Garlands of victory are placed on the heads of winning American and British athletes. Spectators applaud. Flags of United States, Britain and Germany are raised.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon visit a boy’s camp in Balmoral, Scotland. King George VI of United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, together with Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, arrive in the Abergeldie Castle camp (Ballater AB35 5SY, UK). The king is seen wearing a kilt. King George VI plays games with working class and public-school British boys in camp. King George VI throws darts at a target board. Boys taking photos. The king examines a motion picture movie camera and operates the movie camera. Boys sitting on ground. The king, the queen, the princesses, and others seated in chairs during a photo session. They all move their hands in unison gestures as part of a game.
Troops obtain beaches in the European Theater during World War II. A sign reads: "Dunkirk." An anti-aircraft gun on an English ship. Several English tanks on a cliff along a coastline. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler looking through binoculars across the English coastline. Adolf Hitler and staff officers walk upon the deck of a ship. Aircraft passing overhead. Large German coastal gun fired. English soldiers lining up in formation in an open area. Barracks in the background. English Home Guard training with rifles. A coastal defense observation post shows observers scanning the horizon. British Anti-aircraft gun positions along the coastline. An English sailor standing in the observer position on a ship scanning the sea with binoculars. A Supermarine Spitfire of the Royal Air Force in flight. Spitfires diving down through the sky. Formation of six United States Army Air Forces B-26 Marauders passing. Close elevated aerial view of B-25 Mitchell. A bomb exploding near a pier. Strafing a vessel at sea. A destroyer escort vessel. Island across flat terrain showing shells bursting in the distant background. A German building shows two guards standing at the entrance. Inside, Hitler and staff officers looking at a large map. Tread of a German tank going up a road. Crew members standing on a German tank. German artillery going up a road on a half track vehicle. The half track towing heavy artillery piece. Ship underway at sea. Other ships in the distant background. Observer standing on the deck of a ship scans horizon with binoculars. An English soldier observing. Marines crowded aboard landing craft as it moves towards shore. A rocky coastline showing English commandos landing along a shoreline and dashing up rocky terrain. German Communication Tower and Building. An explosion blowing an installation apart. Three huge gas holders erected on pier showing explosion and flame. A building being blown up; flame and smoke.
First scene of film shows waves rolling in on a shoreline. Next, four transport ships are seen underway in the Atlantic ocean. A transport ship is docked next to a large pier where war materiel is piled up and some allied soldiers are standing in formation, while others are proceeding across the pier. Closeup of the soldiers on the move reveals that they are British soldiers in battle gear. A wider view from atop a building shows the area to be industrial in nature, with smoke rising from foothills in the distance. Change of scene shows several U.S Landing Craft Infantry Large, LCI (L)s numbered: 322; 85; 86; and 325, docked in England, preparing for the D-day invasion of Europe in June, 1944. A formation of four American B-24 Liberator bombers is seen in flight. Clusters of bombs are seen falling from aircraft and exploding on the ground below. Paratroopers are viewed as they jump from an airplane. A convoy of LCI (L)s underway in the English Channel. Closeup of one (LCI number 31) is seen from a low flying airplane. Another view of LCIs silhouetted against light-reflecting water. American soldiers wading ashore, unopposed, from LCI number 36, during the continued invasion of Southern France, in August, 1944. Post D-day view from overflying aircraft of Allied troops assembling and moving inland from the Normandy beachhead. Closeups of Surrendering German soldiers carrying a white flag. Closeups of German prisoners. One of them displays his uniform sleeve identifying him as a member of Hermann Goering Division. He also wears the Iron Cross and another medal.
Opening scene shows Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek seated with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Madam Chiang in their Cairo meeting at a residence of the American Ambassador to Egypt, Alexander Kirk, on November 25, 1943, during World War 2. Foreign ministers of the countries stand behind their leaders. Closeups of the three Country's leaders. Scene jumps to Teheran, with Soviet Leader, Joseph Stalin, President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, seated on a veranda of the Soviet Embassy. Suddenly scenes of tanks, trucks, and Soviet troops moving on the Eastern front are seen. Some of the troops move by horse-drawn sleighs through the snow. A line of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 bombers taxiing on an airfield. View from a B-17 in flight. View f as a cluster of bombs falls from B-17 and explodes on the ground. Animated map illustrating paths of aircraft attacks against the German Atlantic Wall from England. Landing craft underway in an amphibious assault. Brief view from a ship of a post-war test atomic explosion in the Pacific ocean
Launching of German V2 rockets (guided missiles) from Peenemunde, Usedom island, Germany, during World War 2. German V-2 in launching position, technicians and equipment in area are preparing to launch the missile. Two civilian technicians and a uniformed German military officer walk across launch area toward V-2 rocket. Workers and technicians gathered around the V-2 base. The missile about to be launched. Smoke emitted from the exhaust section. Launching of V-2. Launching pit at Peenemunde showing a V-2 prior to launching. Rocket engine starts, rocket begins to rise slightly, and then the V2 rocket topples over and explodes in the launching pit. Another scene showing the successful launching of a German V-2 guided ballistic missile. Brief view of a street in England showing results of a V-2 impact on surrounding buildings. Scene of devastation and rubble from V-2 rocket explosion. Two British boys hand a chair to one another across rubble. Another V-2 impact site in England, United Kingdom, showing a row of houses with one or two completely destroyed a rocket.
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