Ruins in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Shelled buildings, damaged by Allied bombings. Firemen douse fire. Damaged building by air attack of Allies. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda with other officers and inspects bomb damaged site. Civilians move with their belongings. Ruined buildings and debris. Civilians remove debris.
U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks for 5th War Loan Drive from invasion headquarters in England during World War II. Eisenhower makes a speech about sacrifices made by men and women in battlefield as well as their homes. He talks about the resolution of the world conflict and he appeals for 5th War Loan Drive. He insists on the means by which the value of service to the country can be increased.
Allied drive towards Rome after the capture of Monte Casino during the end of World War II. Ruins of Cassino crushed by Allied war machines. Artillery shelled walls of Monte Cassino. Enemy mines and booby traps. Commanding officer of British, American and French army including British Army Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, U.S. Army General Mark W. Clark and Juin et al plan for the drive on Rome. Army tanks drive. Smoke rises. German prisoners are being taken.
Allies capture Nazi secret weapons in Anzio, Italy during World War II. American troops examine a German "death wagon" sitting on a flat bed truck. It is radio controlled and designed to carry a thousand pounds of explosive. Another scene shows a German Neger human-guided torpedo driven ashore. It had been manned by a 17 year old German sailor, who is seen being interrogated. U.S. troops chain the torpedo to a boat and activate its propeller, in the surf.
Americans remember the fallen soldiers of World War II in New York, United States. U.S. troops and civilians march parade to honor and pay homage to the nation's dead soldiers. Wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier monument (1 Wilson Ave, Fort Myer, VA 22211, United States) in Arlington National Cemetery. At Gettysburg, New York Governor Thomas Edmund Dewey honors the dead of the Empire State, who lie buried there. Children with miniature U.S. flags and flowers pay honor at the tomb of unknown soldiers. (World War II period).
USS Yorktown underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Showing heavy flak bursting near the water as USS Yorktown underway at sea. U.S. navy Douglas SBDs Dauntless aircraft taxi forward on flight deck as plane handlers guide and control aboard the aircraft carrier.
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