Victory in Europe day as huge crowds gather to celebrate end of World War II in Europe, in Paris and London. Crowd swarms around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Crowds celebrating at Piccadilly Circus in London. Flashback to scenes of World War II. U.S. troops training for D-Day invasion. B-17 bombers at high altitude over Germany leaving streams of contrails. A B-17 hit and falling. B-24 bombers of the 706th Squadron, 446th Bomb Group, on bombing mission. (One: tail number 41-29177, was shot down on August 26, 1944.) U.S. war materiel pouring into the UK. New P-38s and new P-47s. A German Me-109 aircraft hit and falling. The German pilot bails out and parachutes downward. Invasion fleet elements assembling in England.
Crowd lines sides of city streets and watches U.S. Army troops parade on a street, in a major city, mobilized to fight in World War 1. The parade includes a float facsimile of a warship, with several sailors and others riding it. Older veterans of previous wars march along near the float. U.S. flag hangs from a building along with another flag on which is written '104' ( possibly for the U.S. Army 104th Infantry Regiment). American soldiers marching in the rain along a street in a small U.S. town, preparing to deploy to Europe in World War I. U.S. troops walk through American crowd. Soldier carries a dog in his hand. Two soldiers stand near a railroad train and one displays a pocket sized American flag; both soldiers smile. American women pose with U.S. military band person who holds a sousaphone. U.S. troops board a troop train while snow falls. Soldier and a woman stand together hugging, in the snow, beside the waiting troop transport train, and the soldier kisses his sweetheart goodbye.
Thousands of Italian prisoners of war entering a processing center following the battle of Caporetto in World War I. Italian troops and some civilian refugees moving slowly along the side of road. Several wagons pulled by oxen. Some troops ride on the wagons of Italian refugee families. Oxen pulling wagons with families and their belongings. Many Italian soldiers wave and smile for camera. Some rest at a roadside area while other continue along road with horse-drawn wagons. Civilians entering a village. Troops from different units meet and greet one another. Italian troops assembled at prisoner of war camp, with wood buildings and snow-covered Alps mountains in background.
Austrian soldiers skirt around a dead horse on road, during World War 1. Damaged and abandoned Italian war materiel at side of fast flowing shallow river. Pack horses fording the river. Mounted soldiers fording the river. Huge pile of abandoned Italian artillery pieces at side of road. Austrian troops advancing as Italian prisoners of war march in the opposite direction on the other side of the road. Italian soldier comes upon a fallen soldier near a stone house. He removes his hat and stands respectfully over the fallen one.
Nazi War Ensign flying above the Zeughaus (old armory) museum building in Berlin on Heldengedenktag (Day of Commemoration of Heroes) in World War 2. Open car arrives carrying Adolf Hitler. Marshal Hermann Goering salutes with his baton as other German officers render Nazi salute. Hitler and Goering shake hands. Hitler then shakes hands with Marshal Wilhelm Keitel; Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz; SS leader Heinrich Himmler; Marshal Fedor von Bock; Marshal Erhard Milch and a local official. Hitler and Goering lead the group into the museum, past displays of war materiel and a large standing crowd of participants. Hitler and his military entourage are seated as the courtyard is filled by the music of Bruckner's Symphony No.7 in E major. Hitler seems enthralled. Other participants also listen quietly. While music continues, Hitler quietly steps to a podium decorated with the Naval ensign. A mass of flag bearers from units of all armed services stand behind him. He speaks softly about the struggle to defend Europe against the Bolsheviks. He mentions the Wehrmacht and those who have fallen in defense of homeland and people, who will be remembered always, by the nation.
Workers in Ford Motor final assembly plant gather around a car coming off assembly line. Sign on its windshield reads: :'This is the last V-8. Watch out Japs. Here comes the little Jeep next. 'V for Victory.' " Final Ford V8 passenger car leaves the assembly line, as the plant switches to full time production of jeeps for the war effort during World War 2. Group of war production workers holding the same sign gathers around a Ford GPW Jeep.
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