Soldiers of the First Special Service Force (FSSF, also called the "Devil's Brigade") (elite joint American-Canadian commando unit) conduct a raid on an enemy German position in Anzio, Italy, during WW2. A soldier draws in the dirt using a stick, briefing the soldiers for the attack. The FSSF troops carry rifles, machine guns, and rocket launchers (bazookas). The soldiers surround the German outpost and begin firing. Various close and medium angles of the soldiers firing rifles, machine guns, rocket launchers, and a rifle grenade. The soldiers advance toward the enemy position. German prisoners of war (POW) walk on a road. A larger group of German prisoners stand and sit, idle. Close up of the prisoners' faces, one smokes a cigarette.
Procession of German tanks and military vehicles transporting German soldiers in the Narva sector, north of Lake Peipus, Estonia, during WW2. Shot of German anti-aircraft gun. The supply procession moves through cold winter weather. Horses dusted with snow pull a carriage. A German soldier attempts to light a cigarette outside and fails, requiring the lighter of another soldier inside a vehicle, protected from the wind. A German assault team wearing white winter camouflage walk across the ice of Lake Peipus, carrying assault rifles. The German soldiers approach a Soviet-occupied island on the lake. German field artillery fires on the Soviet island position, enabling the assault team to move forward. Shot of the German assault team walking through a forest, smoking buildings visible just outside the treeline. German assault team advances to the buildings to capture the Soviets. A German soldier uses a flamethrower to ignite hay in a barn. Soviet prisoners of war (POW) walk in single file with arms raised. A Soviet counterattack coming from across the ice is stopped by German firepower. Close up shots of German soldiers firing on the Soviets using rifles, machine guns, and artillery.
Pre World War 2, overview of U.S. bayonet qualification course. Narrator describes the course as the visuals progress. View of a wide field with many wooden and straw dummies. Some of the dummies have cardboard circles pasted on them to provide targets for bayonet thrust. Some dummies have poles sticking out to force a parrying motion before thrust. Scene changes to a series of instructional graphics of the different training dummies. The narrator again describes which actions should be taken for each unique dummy type.
A group of German boys and teenagers assist the war effort by helping on farms in 1940, during WW2. They walk along a field holding baskets and farming tools. A line of of boys on their knees work to harvest potatoes on a farm using digging forks. The boys, wearing civilian clothing, sing and whistle as they work. Close ups of boys raking the ground and picking the potatoes by hand, placing them into baskets. The boys walk through the field with full baskets and dump them into a larger pile of potatoes. From a Spanish newsreel.
A group of Slovak soldiers stand in a group in 1940, during WW2. Slovak soldiers pore over a large sheet of paper. Close up of Ferdinand Čatloš, Slovak Minister of War. Film from a newsreel depicting staged combat footage. Armored cars drive down a roadway. A tank cross open field and fires its weapons. A line of Slovak soldiers, laying prone and firing rifles, jump up and rush forward in a mock combat scenario. Scene changes to explosion in waterway, a group of soldiers run on the far bank. Soldiers cross a makeshift wooden bridge, which explodes after, sending debris flying. From a Spanish newsreel.
Opening scenes show Israeli tanks in the Sinai desert. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) troops are seen coping with damaged and destroyed defensive positions and equipment. Momentary glimpse from cockpit of a U.S. Air Force transport aircraft landing on a runway in Israel. Israeli workers emptying explosives and ammunition from the hold of a U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) C-141 aircraft. An American. M107 175mm self-propelled gun being offloaded from a MAC C-5 Galaxy transport plane. Israeli workers unloading many tons of military supplies and equipment from MAC aircraft.
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