Ground crew members flash a searchlight in the European Theater. A German guard stands near a pole. Germans operate a radar machine. German women radio receivers work receiving updates on enemy positions. A woman writes a message and raises her hand for another woman to take and deliver it. High-ranking German officers marking a spot on a large wall map. Officers seated at table. German radio operators at work, wearing headphones, listening to transmissions and taking notes. German officers work on a large table map. German pilots resting in a barracks on bunks while other play cards. Siren sounds and they scramble and run out of building. German pilots run up to a long line of ME-109s. They climb into the cockpits of ME-109 aircraft. Ground crew starts plane. ME-109 taxi and take off from the airfield. A German writes on a chart. Crew operates a searchlight. A plane in flight. A German draws on a wall map. Searchlight flashed on the flying plane.
A formation of French motor gunboats underway at sea. Several Bretagne-class dreadnought battleships. Some minelayers and formation of aircraft overhead. A a group of triple stacker destroyers. Bretagne class battleship underway at hight speed.The dreadnaught battleship Richelieu in rough seas and later firing her 8 forward guns.
Opening scene shows Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-21 aircraft, Army Type 97 heavy bomber (Allied code name: Sally) flying in formation. Closeup from inside an aircraft, of gunner manning machine gun in the nose. View from aircraft of Bombs falling on industrial target. View from cockpit of explosions from bomb strikes. Scene shifts to a group of Japanese Imperial Navy Mitsubishi G3M aircraft (Type 96, code named: Nell) on an airfield, with engines running. A Japanese admiral, in dress whites, speaks to pilots, who are dressed in white flight suits. The pilots then march in loose formation past an honor guard of Naval officers and sailors assembled at the entrance of a hangar. The pilots and their well-wishers exchange salutes. Some G3M airplanes take off. A formation of them silhouetted in flight overhead. View of them in formation over a cloud cover. View from a Japanese aircraft dropping bombs on targets in a river gorge.
Opening shows affidavits attesting to the authenticity of source films. Views of the island fortress of Corregidor, as Japanese troops occupy it while Americans and Filipinos stand with hands up, in surrender. Japanese and American Army officers having discussions. Scene shifts to Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright with members of his staff: Brigadier General Lewis C. Beebe; Lieutenant Colonel John R. Pugh; Major William Lawrence; and Major Tom Dooley, as they arrive at the Japanese headquarters building on Bataan to discuss surrender. They line up outside the wooden building and are saluted by the Commander of the 14th Japanese Imperial Army, General Masaharu Homma, as he climbs the steps of the building. Next, the Americans are seen seated at a table on the porch, opposite General Homma, who has General Wachi at his left and Colonel Nakayama, to his right. Reporters, an interpreter, newsreel camera men and others are also on the porch. General Homma and Wainwright discuss surrender. (These discussions proved fruitless, as Homma demanded surrender of the entire Philippine Garrison, and Wainwright tried to avoid that, citing lack of authority. Accordingly, Homma curtailed the meeting, and Wainright and staff returned to Corregidor, where, on May 6, 1942, he finally surrendered all forces in the Philippines to Japanese Colonel Sato, commander of the 61st Infantry.) Camera outdoor pans over Corregidor Island. Scenes of prisoners standing in the so-called Garage area of Corregidor, where American and Filipino POWs were interred, following their surrender on May 6th. The remainder of the film shows various scenes of POWs on Bataan, moving under Japanese guard. A makeshift sign points the way to Mariveles, where the infamous Bataan Death March commenced.
A map shows various cities of Russia, Soviet Union. Snow and ice covered fields melting at the end of winter and start of spring. Soldiers walking on boards to cross creeks of running water. German army vehicle driving in standing water from melting snow. German soldiers walking through deep mud while pushing a stuck vehicle.
The seaport of Odessa in the Ukraine. Ships anchored in the harbor. Men stack logs they have taken from a cart. A man rows a boat with help of two boys. A sign on a large ship in the background reads, "Odessa." A man adjusts a hull divider in his row boat as a young boy watches.
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