Historic visit of U.S. President Richard M Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon to the People's Republic of China. Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai hosted a sports exhibition of gymnastics, badminton, and table tennis at the Capital Gymnasium (56 Zhong Guan Cun Da Jie, Haidian District, China, 100086) in Beijing, China. President Nixon with Premier Zhou Enlai reviews a parade and various performances by sports person and gymnasts. A crowd of spectators watch the games at the ceremony.
German troops advances on the Russian front during World War II, some carrying Panzerfaust anti-tank weapons. Soldiers take position in trenches. German troops receive an attack from Russia. The attack is repulsed with artillery, rocket launchers and tanks. Rockets launched together at once. Rocket launcher control in hands of soldier. A soldier smoking a cigarette directs traffic and climbs onto moving the tank. Soldiers inside trenches. A camouflaged tanker. A soldier sits inside a tank. Periscope view POV from inside tank. A wounded soldier is taken care of by another soldier. German tanks moving ahead in the background. Tiger tank of SS.Pz.Rgt.2 Das Reich is seen.
Opening scene shows a young girl with her hair blowing in a windy spot, and the dome of the Puerto Rican Capitol building visible behind her. Passengers ride in a wooden bodied station wagon, down a steep inclined street. As they pass a local policeman, their tailgate is seen to be filled with bananas and plantains. A large church complex tucked into a valley with hills in background. Another church halfway up a hill overlooking a town. A significant big city church with parishioners on its steps. An ancient historic-looking abandoned church building. Sign at a church reading: "St. John. Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas." Another church sign (name of church not visible) stating: "Built 1882;" and announcing schedule of services. Cars driving past what may be a mosque. Cover of a book entitled: " Poesía Puertorriqueña." (Puerto Rican Poetry). Park-like setting of University of Puerto Rico, with a complex of buildings across the street, including the university clock tower. A girl paging through a large book. She pauses and laughs. A shelf of books in the university library, with titles including: Books of Leonardo da Vinci; Babes in the Darkling Wood by HG Wells; Abraham Lincoln, the War Years, by Carl Sandburg; and numerous other significant literary works. A newspaper boy runs past a girl on a sidewalk, carrying an armload of books.
The German campaign in Russia, Soviet Union, 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.
Allied capture of Cherbourg, France, on June 25th, 1944, in World War 2. German prisoners of war marching under guard, with hands on their heads following surrender. Aerial vies of the Cherbourg harbor, extensively sabotaged by the Germans. Allied engineers working to repair the port. Power shovels, welders, and divers seen at work. Troops moving up the peninsula from Cherbourg. Weapons being distributed to French members of the Maquis guerilla resistance, in Allied occupied areas. French irregular soldiers firing against German forces in mountains, and sabotaging German facilities. Numerous dead bodies of French civilian villagers, killed by a Battalion of the Nazi SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment "Der Führer" (an infantry regiment of 2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich"), and destroyed buildings in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane where the massacre took place. Temporary stakes marking their graves.
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.