The French Resistance Maquis (underground guerilla fighters) in Chateaudun, France. Men and women masquisards arm themselves near a French farmhouse. The weapons include English machine guns, U.S. Browning Automatic Rifles and captured German weapons and ammunition, dropped by the U.S. Air Force for the French underground. The members seated by a road. One loads cartridges into a magazine. The masquisards prepare the weapons. They discuss the plans and strategize. The fighters examine the weapons. A member demonstrates the use of a gun.
The French Resistance Maquis (underground guerilla fighters) in Chateaudun, France. Men and women masquisards arm themselves near a French farmhouse. The fighters with English machine guns, U.S. Browning Automatic Rifles and captured German weapons and ammunition, dropped by the U.S. Air Force for the French underground. The members seated and standing on the sidewalk. A man with the French Resistance flag joins the waiting men. The men stand and wait at the farmhouse. They collect their arms and ammunition and begin to march forward. Men with flags lead the contingent.
A Red Cross seaplane on a rescue operation in the European Theater. The sea plane takes off. The aircraft in flight over the sea. The pilot and co-pilot in the cockpit. They spot the stranded flier below. A German flier in a life raft. The pilot lands the seaplane near the raft. The co-pilot approaches the rafts, and brings the rafts back to the aircraft with the help of a rope. The wounded flier in reeled aboard. The co-pilot boards the aircraft. The seaplane takes off.
Scenes inside makeshift shelter.American soldiers drinking and relaxing. United States soldiers try to make some practical use of a wooden shipping container. Debris and bombed out buildings all around the soldiers.
Brief glimpse of British visitors walking toward a ship, after a postwar visit to an IPC facility in Iraq. Scene shifts to an oil derrick and drilling rig rising above oil storage tanks at a sandy site. Camera pans up the derrick. Change of scene shows gathering of British people with IPC officials at some kind of event. Next, a group of officials is seen briefly, outside a facility warehouse. Two men greet each other. A military officer stands nearby. Camera then jumps to inside the oil rig, shown earlier where Iraqi "roughnecks" wrestle pipe, insert a new section, and continue drilling. View of worker walking among oil tanks at the facility. Views of natural gas compressors; large transmission pipes; and a worker closing one, in a set of valves at the site. Broad view from the derrick, showing supplies and equipment laid out in the sand and a vista of miles, with distant structures including (possibly) worker housing and support facilities.
Dramatized Japanese film depicts Japanese Navy personnel aboard a Type A Ko-hyoteki-class submarine as they advance toward attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese Navy officers converse and plan attack. One holds a model of his mother ship affiliated with his midget submarine. Scene changes to below-decks of the Japanese Imperial Navy mother ship for the submarine. An officer stops and looks at his watch. Back on board the midget submarine, the two man crew look at a watch at the same time. They stand and salute their home ship, from afar. Scenes of the crew member operating the control wheel and the officer in charge looking into the periscope. Simulated periscope view shows scene of Pearl Harbor under attack with fire and explosions. Submarine has broadside of a U.S. Navy warship in its sights. Officer gives command to crew member to fire torpedo. Crew member seen pulling a lever.
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