Examples of European transportation systems including railroads, bridges, and waterways, destroyed during World War 2. Scenes of commercial vessels being launched and bustling commercial activities at the inland port of Duisburg, Germany. Large Rhein (Rhine) River barges being loaded and moving out of the port.
U.S. troops in France during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive towards the end of World War I. U.S. soldiers eat. A dog sits beside wounded German soldiers lying on stretchers. German prisoners are marched along a field. Flak bursts in the sky. A German airplane is downed.
Opening slate in Russian refers to "Oil for the front" (in World War 2). First scene shows an oil field with drilling derricks in place and trucks passing over a bridge. Scene switches to oil worker high in a drilling rig, making an adjustment to a moving oil drilling arm. Closeup from even with the moving arm shows drill suspended from it. On the ground below, two supervisors look at a drilling site. Roughnecks attach a block and cable to a hook suspended from drilling derrick. A closeup of crude oil flowing into a compartment hatch on an oil tank rail car. View of train with oil tank cars being filled from pipes. A locomotive engine begins the train of filled oil cars.
Activities of U.S. African American soldiers training stateside for battle during World War 2. Soldiers aboard jeeps and trucks driving past on a training battlefield. A snow covered area with U.S. Army soldiers in many tanks, trucks, and a M3 Gun Motor Carriage (tank destroyer) advancing in the snow. The soldiers stand near artillery lined up on the battlefield. They load and fire artillery. Tanks advance on the battlefield. Smoke rises due to firing. Engineers building a pontoon bridge over a river. Cavalry units advance on the battlefield. Trees in the background. African American troops advancing against targets in a mix of M3 half tracks APC and M3 Gun Motor Carriage Tank Destroyers. The soldiers fire an anti-aircraft artillery. African American U.S. Army Infantry units lying in prone position fire rifles and guns on the battlefield.
An arms factory in the United States during World War I. The interior of an armament factory. Men working inside the factory. The men work in the manufacture of barrels of heavy guns and artillery. A completed artillery piece is hoisted and moves on a conveyor above the operations. Other men working in the production of shells. Final scene shows a person using a large spoon to stir 10500 capsules in a glass bowl for the first draft lottery in 1917.
United States troops in Germany during World War 2. Group of repatriated United States soldiers pose for a photograph. They are sitting on a fuselage of a German Me-262 jet airplane, at the "REIMAHG-A" underground aircraft factory on the Walpersberg sandstone mesa, near Kahla, in Thuringia, Germany. Some repatriated soldiers pose seated on a tank. In change of scene, a long line of German civilians is seen evacuating the area. The refugees carry household and personal belongings in wagons pulled by oxen. Closeup of one wagon with children riding atop it. German women walk beside the wagons. More views of the evacuating civilians. Some use bicycles to carry their goods. An old woman tries to budge a sitting goat to take him along with her. She succeeds and leads him away on a tether. More views of evacuating families with their wagons and animals.
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