Map shows Belorussian and Russian areas near the Dnieper river. Field Marshal Ernst Busch, ostensibly being honored for 40 years of service. (He has been notified that he is relieved from command of German Army Group Centre, following disastrous defeat by Soviets during their 1944 Belorussian Offensive of World War 2.) He steps from his headquarters in Belarus, receiving salutes from his staff. He accepts an elaborate candelabra, as a gift. Busch shares a document with a German General, and they both are amused by it. Members of the staff bid Marshal Busch farewell.
U.S. soldiers in a landing craft approaching Omaha Beach, Normandy, on D-Day, June 6, 1944, in World War II. Support ship firing rockets in background. Barrage Balloon overhead in distance. smoke rising from hillside and many troops already on the shore. View from beach as U.S. troops wade from landing craft and make their way around numerous steel obstacles placed on the beach. Two soldiers felled by German gunfire. U.S. troops of the 16th Infantry Regiment sheltering by an overhanging ledge of chalk cliff at the edge of the beach. Warships and landing craft offshore. View from base of protecting chalk cliff as more troops wade ashore. Troops huddled at base of cliff, some still wearing personal flotation gear. They begin to dig in. Soldiers preparing explosives. View from cliff base of fallen soldiers at waters edge and damaged landing craft in the water. Distant view of bodies of some U.S. soldiers floating in surf at edge of beach.
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).
Film opens showing a Partisan Sentry posted outside Marshall Tito's mountain stronghold in Drvar, Western Bosnia, Yugoslavia, during the Spring of 1944, in World War 2. Views of other sentries on guard duty. A Partisan officer steps onto the porch of the headquarters and looks through a pair of binoculars. Closeup of a sentry. Scene shifts to Marshall Tito stepping from the main porch to a lower one, accompanied by American Army Major Linn M. Farish, American Liaison to the Partisans, and British Brigadier General Fitzroy Maclean, Winston Churchill's special envoy to the Yugoslav leader. Tito smokes a pipe, as he and Farish converse. MacLean smokes a cigarette. In next scene Farish is also smoking a cigarette. Major Farish removes his hat and tosses it over the railing (perhaps because Tito is not wearing one). Tito pumps his arm several times while MacLean removes his hat. Then, speaking to MacLean, Parish pumps his arm as well. Next, they are joined by Tito's Chief of Staff, General Koča Popović. Views of Tito and Popović. Change of scene shows a British military photographer upon a railing taking a still picture of Tito and his Partisan Supreme Command (cabinet and principal staff officers). After the photographer leaves, they remain together with Tito's pet dog, Tigar.
A film titled 'VIII Fighter Command Lt. S.B. Morill 62 Sqdn.(Squadron) 56 F.G.(Fighter Group) attacking ME-109 on 5 January 1944'. Luftwaffe aircraft ME-109 explodes during World War II in Germany.
A film titled 'VIII Fighter Command Lt. Christensen 62 Sqdn.(Squadron) 56 F.G.(Fighter Group) attacking on 5 January F.W.190 1944'. Attack on Luftwaffe aircraft F.W.190 during World War II in Germany.
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