At start of film, a German Stug III tank destroyer with single crew member is seen in a snowy landscape on the Eastern Front during the winter of 1942 in World War 2. Another Stug III, with large protective side plates installed, is seen sitting in the snow next to a barn. A third one is seen parked in snow with no soldiers present. The scene changes to German infantry in white cold weather parkas, at a battle front. One soldier looks through binoculars. German radio operator seated operating a radio, at a field communications center. Officers review maps and instructions. Infantry begin marching forward through the snow. Some load supplies on a half-track prime mover. Tiger I tanks of s.Pz.Abt.503 (503rd Heavy Tank Battalion) accompany infantry spread widely across flat snow-covered field. A locomotive and train passes nearby. Several dead Soviet soldiers are seen in the snow. Infantrymen capture two soviet soldiers and take them prisoner. A German soldier digs up a heavy box-shaped land mine. A rough posted sign warns of mines. Troops fire field artillery. Several views of destroyed Soviet armor and artillery pieces.
Opening scene displays map of Italy, Sardinia, and Corsica. A German soldier at the front in the area of Monte Cassino, reads military news entitled, "South Front" which contains news about the battle of Monte Cassino, in Italy during World War 2. The high hill known as Monte Cassino and the Monastery located there are seen in the background. German troops are seen hidden among foliage at the base of the hill. One is hunkered down behind an M-42 machine gun equipped with a tripod. Glimpse of troops in trench, conversing. Next, American aircraft (too far away to see) begin bombing the Monte Cassino hilltop and Monastery. Numerous explosions are seen and heard as the bombs explode. A German soldier jumps over a stone wall to find better protection. German soldier observes through binoculars. At a campsite, where some clothes are drying in the background, Several German officers consult maps and discuss their plans. German infantry move into new positions at the base of the hill. One fires short bursts from an M-42 machine gun. Others fire their rifles. One uses a Schiessbecher to fire a rocket propelled grenade with his rifle. As they advance further, they come upon the bodies of several dead American soldiers. They capture an American soldier and disarm him. They capture several more American soldiers and march them back from the front. German officers interrogate the captured soldiers. Finger points at a location on an area map. German artillery then fires at that position. Artillery officers use periscopic binoculars to monitor the targeting. German artillery shells burst in a valley below the Monte Cassino hill.
View from cockpit of German Dornier Do 17 bomber, of many parked on an airfield in German occupied France during World War 2. Camera pans across the cockpit. View shifts view from under the wing of one plane as an aircrew member heads toward it. Next, the bomber with engines running taxis out for takeoff. Scene changes to show head-on approach of a Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft taking off toward the camera. Then a formation of He 111 aircraft is seen in flight. Extreme closeup of He 111 in flight, with crew member visible in the aircraft. View from cockpit of a Dornier Do 17 bomber in formation flight. (Shaky camera makes them look like bi-wing aircraft in some brief scenes.) Camera pans across cockpit showing the Do 17 in formation above. View from instrument panel, of pilot and copilot at controls in a bomber. More views of the bombers in formation. The bombers arrive over London in the dark and are subject to British anti-aircraft fire with shells bursting all around them. Glimpse inside the cabin of one bomber. More flak explosions all around. The German planes release their bombs, which are seen exploding on London, England, below.
Film opens showing devastated snow-covered remains of Peterhof Palace and its fountains, in Leningrad, after the Russians ended the siege of that city in January, 1944 of World War II. The next scenes show crowds gathered on 25 August, 1946, to celebrate the newly restored fountains, which are seen spraying water again. (Narrator notes that Russians now call the place Petrodvorets, meaning Peter's Palace.) An official speaks, at the ceremony, about the architecture of Petrodvorets and its cultural masterpieces still to be restored. Glimpse of statuary and array of fountains. Closeup of several young women holding flowers. Another shot of the fountains spraying along both sides of a central pond, with spectators crowded along the extreme sides near lines of trees.
Activity aboard USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) during the Korean War. Signs aboard ship 'Photo Lab', and 'Photo Interpretation'. Print dryer in view. A man runs print through dryer. Man puts print through developer in dark room. Negative goes through printer. The light control knob is adjusted. A man adjusts paper on a printer.
Two F9F-2s of VF-112 are catapulted from the deck of the USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) during the Korean War. Deck crew seen attaching bridle under aircraft. Two F9F-2s, of VC-61, Unit C, are set on the catapult, given signals, and catapulted, successively.
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