Succession of U.S. Martin B-26 Marauder aircraft taking off from Denain Airfield (A-83) in France during waning days of World War Two in Europe. Their white tails identify them as belonging to the 323rd Bombardment Group known as the White Tails. They are also known as Wood's Rocket Raiders, referring to their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Wilson R. Wood.
View of the flight line at Denain Airfield (A-83) in France in April 1945, just prior to the end of world War Two in Europe. Martin B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group taxiing. Airmen standing, around Army Ambulance number 728234, in the foreground. A derrick in the foreground. One of the taxiing B-26s has tail number 43-34138. All the aircraft have broad white stripe on top of their vertical stabilizers. (The aircraft of the 323rd are called the White Tails.) B-26s in flight overhead. Crew chief covers turret guns on a B-26.
A newly devised non-skid tire is shown in France, 1934. The tire is shown up close and a machine is seen cutting grooves in the tire to aid with traction in all weather conditions. The non-skid tires tested on wet streets. Traffic on the streets. A woman is seen pushing a baby pram in front of a moving vehicle on rainy, wet streets. The car with older tires skids in the rain and hits the woman and baby carriage. Narrator indicates that it was a fatal accident.
German-occupied France. Officers gathered in a hall. Nazi flags on the walls. LVF (Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism ) sign in the background. Flags in the hall. A ceremony takes place. A speaker on the stage. Women volunteers in view.
American troops welcomed in village, by Nuns and children, and in Paris, France, in August, 1944 during liberation of Paris. December 16, 1944, German counterattack causes American casualties. Dead and wounded shown being picked up on stretchers. American troops advancing across fields. Tanks and burning buildings. Americans fight in streets of town and from trenches, with snow on ground. Chaplain prays over body of fallen American soldier. More views of U.S. wounded on stretchers. German officers led by General Manteuffel planning actions. German home front civilian guards (Volkssturm national militia) seen on parade carrying rifles and Panzerfaust, dressed in civilian clothing. German Tiger II tanks ("King Tiger") of s.Pz.Abt.503 parade in a training area. German SS troops advance during the Battle of the Bulge. German V1 Flying bomb "buzz bomb" shown in flight. Smoke rises from buzz bomb strike on town. (World War II period).
An American feature film depicts the life of professional dancer Jerry Jones during World War I. Soldiers at a battlefront in France. They fire rifles and advance on the front. The soldiers seated in a hide out discuss amongst themselves. A bugler seated on the ground holding his bugle. Smoke from bombardment in the area. Jones gets injured in a blast. The soldiers fire on the battlefront. Newspaper headlines read: 'Armistice Believed Near'. The soldiers enjoy inside a building after the war. The bugler, Jones and other soldiers seated at a table talking amongst themselves. The soldiers sing and play various musical instruments. They discuss about what to do after the war. Jerry Jones holds a mail and tells them that he is going to become a father. They drink wine.
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