Ruined villages of Martinpuich and Beaumont Hamel show utter devastation with nothing left standing above ground level. A lonely soldier walks through the silent wreckage. Scene shifts to Scottish troops resting at side of road near Beaumont Hamel. British soldier walks along what was the main street of Beaumont Hamel, where nothing is left standing but a few stubs and twigs of trees. British soldiers, digging in a hill of debris, unearth a German machine gun.
French Renault FT tank, in camouflage paint, armed with machine gun, crosses field and climbs steep ridge to a road. British Mk IV tank crosses ridge on opposite side of road and descends to road below. Mk IV crosses open country; more British tanks maneuver in fields; explosive charges detonated near tanks; British tank moves through smoke or gas.
British troops, several wearing protective leather helmets, clean and maintain a Mk I Male and Mk I Female tanks.
On the "Red Ball Express." Tires of a running Red Ball truck. Wrecked truck being cleared of the path by a tank. Convoy of Red Ball trucks. Towing truck pulls a disabled Red Ball truck. Mechanic make repairs to truck at a service station. Drivers drink coffee. The convoy moves on. Gasoline canisters being loaded on trucks. Operator inside a radio truck controls truck movements. Artillery shells being manufactured inside a plant. Medical supplies, ammunition, and equipment carried by trucks. Newspaper headlines states that the "Red Ball Express" is discontinued as French railway service improves. Montage shows Red Ball Express trucks lined up at parking lots.
German troops move cautiously among French farms and buildings. A German soldier looks through binoculars. A StuG III tank destroyer in motion. . A damaged and abandoned American Sherman tank. Allied aircraft bomb and strafe German positions, while German antiaircraft batteries fire at them. German gunners successfully down an Allied airplane, which crashes near their position. Two young German soldiers hop over their defensive position and run to investigate the downed airplane. Later, the gun crew paint a white stripe on their gun barrel to indicate a successful downing. (World War II period).
Development of early airplane. Louis Bleriot, distinguished French aviator, sitting in cockpit of his plane. Single engine , single winged aircraft in an open field. The plane takes off.
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