Russian submarine underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. A sailor on deck spots an enemy ship and races to enter the submarine so it can dive and attack. The engine room of the submarine. A man looks through a periscope. The submarine submerges below the water surface. A sailor draws a message to the enemy and a date on a torpedo, and the torpedo is loaded for firing. View of torpedo in water en route to target. Point of view shot as a sailor or officer looks through the periscope. Various control room views and views of gauges and dials and controls on Soviet submarine. View of German freighter ship burning after being hit by torpedo attack.
Pre-invasion activities of United States Army Rangers (2nd Battalion) in Weymouth, England during World War 2. The Rangers eating doughnuts (donuts) and drinking coffee. They march along Weymouth Esplanade to an embarkation area. Royal Hotel Weymouth and St. John's Church seen in the background. They are checked as they move past the pier. The rangers get into British Landing Craft Assault (LCA) at the pier. (The officer seen with a white bar on front of his M1 helmet, is First Lieutenant Robert T. Edlin, who was the first American soldier to board a Landing craft at Weymouth for the Invasion of Europe.) LCAs underway at harbor en route to a transport. An LCA filled with troops.
Children given polio vaccination en masse in the United States. A doctor administers a vaccination. Nurses put ointment on hands of the children to be vaccinated. Mothers carry their children for polio vaccination. A boy smiles after his vaccination. A girl hugs the nurse as she is being vaccinated by a doctor. A nurse takes the medicine into a syringe from a bottle. A nurse applies heat to sterilize syringe needle before extracting vaccine from a vial. The children being vaccinated one after another.
The U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division troops pass through jungles of A Shau Valley in Vietnam. A radio operator calls in the platoon's location. Smoke grenades explode designating the troop pickup zone for pull out. U.S. 327th Infantry Airborne regiment, 101st Airborne Division troops walk through a dense jungle en route to the pick up zone. The troops walk through high bushes. African American platoon sergeant writes on a note pad. The troops wait at the pick up zone. (Vietnam War period).
As examples of action expected under provisions of the Third Geneva Convention, opening scenes show Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) escorting some Viet Cong prisoners of war (POW); a wounded being carried on a stretcher; refugees moving along a trail en masse and women and children being helped to board a DC-3 transport airplane. As examples of prohibited behavior: soldiers are seen abusing prisoners; a woman strikes someone surrounded by a vigilante group; a soldier threatens a child; mother and child being threatened. A Cuban revolutionary officer is seen passing sentence on prisoner without due process. A prisoner being executed by a firing squad. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Marines boarding troop transport ships in World War 2. A line of the transport ships underway in the Pacific, en route to Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. The Destroyer, USS Frazier (DD-607) seen close to port, astern, with a line extending to the transport ship. A sealed packet of orders for the transport and the Marines is delivered over the line. Scene shifts to an officer briefing marines with help of a large relief map of Betio in the Tarawa atoll. The map is complete, in every detail, down to models of structures there. Marines are seen belting machine gun ammunition and test firing their weapons. Marines on deck exercise doing calisthenics. Officer briefing Coast Guard and Navy coxswains who will be operating landing craft during the amphibious assault. Religious service being conducted on deck by a military Chaplains, on evening of November 19, 1943. Catholic chaplain, Father Francis W. Kelly, Chaplain, U.S.N.R. saying Mass, for marines. (Narrator comments that many of these Marines were killed the next morning.)
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