The German campaign in Russia during World War II. Mortars, artillery and machine guns being fired by the Germans. Under heavy fire cover armored German troops carry counter attack. Tiger tanks of SS.Pz.Reg.2 'Das Reich' and s.Pz.Abt.503 firing. Heavy firing takes place as smoke rises.
Dramatizes the methods used by Axis Powers in maritime sabotage operations against Allied Forces during World War 2. Italian MTSM (Motoscafo da turismo modificato) torpedo boat hoisted on dock. Propellers and engines of the boat. MTSM underway at sea. German version of torpedo boat Wendel launched in sea armed with two torpedoes. Two rocket launchers, one on either side of the pilot house. Wendel underway at sea. Another Italian torpedo boat underway.
April 1, 1946: “Operation “Road’s End.” View from the Destroyer, USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) as it accompanies Imperial Japanese Navy submarines headed out of Sasebo Bay, headed to "Point Deep Six," (reportedly about 60 km west of Nagasaki and off the Gotō Islands) where they are to be scuttled by demolition charges and/or gunfire from the Larson or the USS Nereus (AS-17) (not seen). Captain Bell and Commander D.A. Mckee are seen on deck of the Larson with a Japanese interpreter who is issuing instructions to the skeleton Japanese crews through a megaphone. Views of the submarines underway.
Church religious preacher Bishop C M Grace (Marcelino Manuel da Graça, also known as "Sweet Daddy Grace" of the United House of Prayer) baptizes 500 brethren and sisters at the seashore of Newport News, Virginia, United States. Preacher leads them into water and performs the religious ceremony of washing away their sins. African American onlookers watch and hold the baptized women. Many people dance and celebrate, overcome with emotion.
Film opens showing Italian soldiers in North Africa using a sound detection device to locate incoming aircraft during World War 2. They detect a British bomber and ready their anti aircraft gun (90mm Cannone da 90/53). Shells being loaded in the tun and closeup of the principal gunner. British aircraft maneuvering in sky overhead. Two anti aircraft guns firing. Closeup of one viewed from breech as it fires. Batteries of the anti aircraft guns firing. Closeup of Italian gunner reacting as a British plane is hit and falls trailing smoke. It crashes and explodes in the desert some distance away. Closeup of burning aircraft wreckage. Some German Messerschmitt bf 109 fighters taking off from a desert field. Airborne view of Messerschmitt Me bf 110 in flight (view from wingman's aircraft). Closeup of back seat machine gun barrel. View from aircraft strafing ground target on desert below. View from rear seat of the Me 110, where occupant is sending Morse code radio message. View of German radio station (sign reads: "Funkbetriebs Stelle!") Gernan army radio operator working at the station Wind blowing and sand drifting. German soldiers seeking protection from sand storm. Wind undoes tiedown of a tent which soldiers hasten to refasten. Two soldiers raise canvas that covered them during storm and stand upright.
Smoke rises from U.S. Army artillery shells striking on a hill in the Italian Campaign of World War 2. . Several knocked out American Sherman tanks from C Company, 760th Tank Battalion Santa Maria are shown. One leans off the dirt road partway into a ditch. Closeup of tread on a damaged Sherman tank. U.S. soldiers seen in a Sherman tank parked behind a damaged one that has a large hole in it from gunfire. An American soldier places his hand in the hole. Brief view of an Italian Semovente da 75/18 self-propelled gun. Glimpse of what appears to be a damaged Italian 37mm antitank gun.