Film opens showing Adolf Hitler shaking hands with Benito Mussolini of Italy. Next Mussolini is seen addressing a large crowd from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, Italy announcing plans to invade Greece. Views of Greek troops marching during the Greco-Italian War between the kingdoms of Italy and Greece from 28 October 1940 to 23 April 1941. Animated map depicts Italian advances into Greece with subsequent withdrawal as the Greeks drive them back and then invade Albania. Closeup of Hitler enraged about this turn of events, delaying his military Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union. Glimpse of Mussolini visiting his troops in the field. Newspaper headline reads: "Jugoslavia Gets Hitler Terms." A sub headline reads: "Nazi move in Greece Seen." Another view of Greek troops marching. A Junkers JU-87 Stuka dive bomber in flight, enters a steep dive to bomb a target. Bombs exploding in forest. Another Stuka diving and dropping bombs on a city building. Closeup glimpse of a Stuka speeding past the camera. View of a bombed out Yugoslavian building from German air attack on April 6, 1941. Animated map shows German and Italian forces attack paths from their bases in Italy, Hungary, Romania, and Hungary, vanquishing Yugoslavia. Map extends to Greece, where German forces overwhelm three defending Greek Divisions (aided by some British forces). Aerial view of a German Junkers Ju 52 transport plane flying over the Parthenon in Athens.
Allied leaders meet at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force C-54 Skymaster aircraft lands and taxis at an airfield. British Field Marshal Harold L. Alexander and a British Admiral. Another C-54 Skymaster aircraft lands at the airfield. U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and Harry Hopkins get off the aircraft. Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyachselav Molotov greets them.
A preliminary meeting of U.S. and British staffs in Malta prior to the Yalta Conference during World War II. Combined Chiefs of Staff seated around a conference table during the Malta Conference. U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, U.S. Army General George C. Marshall, U.S. Army Brigadier General A.S. MacFarland, U.S. Army Major General Lawrence Kuter, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Brehon B. Somervell, U.S. Major General John E. Hull, U.S. Brigadier General Loutzenheiser, U.S. Lieutenat General Walter B. Smith, U.S. Major General Harold R. Bull, British Commander Richard Colleridge, British Major General Robert Laycock, British Field Marshal Wilson, British Air Marshal Sir Charles F. Portal, British Field Marshal Alan Brooke and Fleet Admiral A.B. Cunningham present. British Admiral James Somerville, British General Hastings Ismay, Captain Graves, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral McCormick and U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Charles Cooke also present.
Allied leaders and officers arrive for the Malta Conference (Code word: Argonaut , Phase I, Cricket) during World War 2. American Admirals King and Leahy arrive and are greeted by other officers and Ambassador Averell Harriman, at the Allied Air Terminal, Luqa, Malta. British Field Marshal Allan Brooke gets off the aircraft and is greeted by officers. U.S. Army General George C. Marshall arrives and shakes hands with Averell Harriman. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden being greeted on his arrival.
Life of people in Georgia Soviet Socialist Republic. Men ride horses on a field. A woman at the bank of a pond near a dam and waterfall. Narrator discusses the beauty and warmth of this area of the Caucasus mountain region on the Black Sea. Women rest in the yard of a convent. Women and men hanging and curing Turkish tobacco leaves in open air. A woman smoking a long pipe of tobacco. A woman leads a team of oxen to till and cultivate a piece of land using an ancient, slotted, rotating tiller. A herd of goats graze on a mountain slope.
The uses and importance of weapons since ancient times in the United States. Pages showing U.S Congress Act creating the National Bureau for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, 1903. Exteriors of the 71st Regiment National Guard Armory building in New York City at Park Avenue and 33rd Street. People enter the building. German troops on parade circa 1914. American troops mobilized for World War 1, and traveling on troop trains in 1918. Troops moving along a muddy road, with military supplies in wagons being pulled by horses. American soldiers firing their 1903 Springfield rifles, from a bunker in France. Americans firing a M1914 Hotchkiss air-cooled machine gun and another U.S. gun crew firing a Browning M1917 water-cooled machine gun. U.S. troops wearing gas masks, firing a trench mortar. American gun crew firing a 155mm howitzer (as some hold their ears).French troops walk past destroyed buildings above which a blimp is seen flying with French observers in a gondola suspended underneath.
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