German Panther tanks of 5.Pz.Div, Pz.IV's and supplies are moved forward in Russia on railway flatcars. Troop trains move on the front. Soldiers in discussion and one smokes a cigarette. Trenches are dug and command post with radio operation is set up. German soldier climbs up tower. Mortars, artillery, and machine guns are fired at Soviet troop positions. Grenades are hurled and German Tiger tanks counterattack under protection of artillery fire. Tigers seen are from s.Pz.Abt.503 and SS.Pz.Rgt 2 (Das Reich) in 1943 and s.Pz.Abt.502 with ace Otto Carius in 1944. (World War II period).
USS Chara (AKA-58) comes alongside the USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116) for a transfer of supplies and ammo. Bridge of Chara. DA Men approach lines. Gear transferred via lines. Gear on lines in cargo nets, lowered to carrier flight deck. F4Us on flight deck with folded wings.
Italian influence on American life, reflected in gastronomy and history. A man selling flags and parade goods for the Feast of San Gennaro (Festa di San Gennaro) in Mulberry Street, New York City. An Italian American woman cooks Italian sausage and meats. Man holding a green parrot. Italian American woman inspects her boyfriend’s necklace. Poster reads “Feast of San Gennaro”. A man pins money on a string of cash attached to the carriage of San Gennaro. A metal effigy of San Gennaro. Italian American brass band. Italian chefs prepare and cook pizza at a restaurant kitchen. Exterior view of Marconi Restaurant signage in Little Italy. Views of Ferris Wheel; . decorative lights; a brass band. A chef rolls and toss a pizza dough by hand. Waiter takes a bottle of Chianti from the restaurant bar. Chef sprinkles cheese on a Pizza Margherita. Customers eating pizza in restaurant. A woman eats pizza while a man pours a glass of Chianti. Man and woman put napkin on dog and feed him pizza. A Casino. View of “Larry’s Bar” sign. View of George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River. Heroic sculpture of Italian explorer and navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano (c. 1485-1528) by Ettore Ximenes (1855–1926) in Battery Park, New York City. Home of Giuseppe Garibaldi, on Staten Island, New York. Visitors enter the home, which displays sign reading: (in Italian)" He lived in exile, 1851 to 1853. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Hero of two worlds." View of statue at Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain, Columbus Circle. in front of the Union Station, Washington, DC. Italian Carabinieri march in Columbus Day parade on 5th Avenue, in New York City. Italian and American flags displayed on building. St. Patrick's Cathedral is seen. Italian journalists at work in Washington, DC and New York City. An Italian journalist speaks about his experience as a journalist in New York City.
German troops surrendering to Americans at Tangermünde, Germany, at the end of World War 2. German soldiers place their rifles onto a heap as they clamber through debris of a damaged bridge, crossing from Soviet-occupied area on the East side of the Elbe River, to surrender to Americans on the West bank, in Tangermunde, Germany. View of a huge stack of German army rifles. German soldiers walking across the partially destroyed bridge, that can only handle a single line of pedestrians. On the West bank, a solitary Soviet soldier has taken it upon himself, to curse and kick at German soldiers, as they pass where he is standing. Many of the German soldiers, avoid his kicks. None really pay any attention to him, as they hurry past. U.S. soldiers nearby pay little attention to his pranks. A sign nearby reads: "Das Verdanken wir unserem Fuhrer 405th Infantry." Smoke rises from the East bank. Scene shifts to more German soldiers, stacking arms on the pile of rifles, as they walk onto the bridge. Back on the West bank, the Russian soldier continues his antics.
German civilians and surrendered German soldiers walk along the damaged Tangermünde Bridge. Uniformed German woman soldier (a Wehrmacht auxiliary soldier or Wehrmachthelferin) holds hands with two young German children as they walk. Other Wehrmachthelferin walk by. One is smiling. Numerous bandaged and wounded German officers and German soldiers walk along the bridge, with some of the more able bodied assisting the wounded. A German soldier with severe head and and face wounds that are bandaged. A young German boy soldier sits on a pile of rubble with an expression of disbelief. His hands appear to be injured or burned. A mocking poster created by the 102nd division, 405th Infantry of the U.S. Army reads, "Das verdanken wir unserem führer" (Translted: "We owe this to our Führer").
Following bold attacks by German forces against English Channel ports in France, French General Ferdinand Foch orders a counter attack by all Allied armies. The film then depicts a montage of war scenes, growing shorter and in quicker succession as the film proceeds. Allied soldiers advancing across open battlefields on a broad front during counter offensive following German attacks against English Channel ports in France, during World War 1. Soldiers drop and take cover as shells explode in open field areas. Dead horses next to a destroyed wagon. Soldier running across open fields. German soldiers firing Maschinengewehr (Schwarzlose) M. 7 (Schwarzlose MG) machine gun. Allied gunners firing French 75 field artillery pieces. Allied soldiers carrying wounded on stretcher. Allied soldiers lifting and carrying shells from stacks of shells along their lines. A shell explosion close to the camera. German soldiers taking cover at upper edge of a bomb crater. One is struck and rolls backward. Allied soldiers wearing ponchos and firing machine gun. Soldiers with an artillery shell. German soldier falling back down embankment. Dead German soldier lying beside a knocked-out German machine gun. Ground level shot from trench or ditch of Allied soldiers emerging from trenches "over the top" and running on battlefield. Explosions on battlefield. Allied soldiers emerge from underground bunker with wood framed door. French soldiers marching on battlefield beside destroyed trees. French soldiers going over the top from trenches to advance in battle. Destroyed trees all around. Capture German soldiers marching along a trench. French soldiers carrying wounded soldier on litter. Trench with numerous bodies of dead soldiers. French soldiers hastily wheeling a wounded soldier on a cart. Numerous scenes of wounded French soldiers, some walking and bandaged. Flamethrowers being used on battlefield areas. Lines of multiple flamethrowers in use. French soldiers marching in a town. Some are supporting other soldiers and some hold rags to faces (possible gas attack victims). Schneider CA1 French tank moving in underbrush. French soldiers load and fire artillery. Heavy siege guns and howitzers being fired including an Italian siege howitzer Mortaio da 210/8. Dead German soldier on ground. French soldiers digging trench beside bodies of fallen soldiers. Shell being loaded in artillery gun. Explosions in valley as seen from high ridge overlooking battlefield. Heavily bandaged wounded soldier being carried by French soldiers and medics. Group of German prisoners; some bandaged. French carrying more wounded on stretchers. A French railway gun (Canon de 340 mm) on railway mounting is fired. Allied cavalry soldiers on horseback galloping across streams, some towing empty caissons that bounce going over embankments at high speed. Allied soldiers in trench. Large group of Allied soldiers taking cover in large bomb crater and then charging up and over the top through smoke screen.