Opening scene shows view from stern of a warship in an Pacific U.S. Navy task force during World War 2. Other convoy warships are seen in far background. Closeup of American flag on a ship. Glimpse of U.S. Destroyer moving behind the camera ship. Four warships in side-by-side formation. Naval guns firing in the dark at night. A U.S. light tank being loaded aboard a ship at a dock. Several towable pieces of field artillery covered and ready for loading at the port. Numerous army trucks parked in a group at the port. Silhouettes of U.S. Army soldiers, in full battle gear, ascending a gangway to a troop transport ship. Heavy field guns being loaded aboard a ship. Cargo manifests for U.S. Army Transport Service ships preparing to sail from the New York Port of embarkation in Brooklyn, New York. Several Army transport ships underway in the ocean. A Fletcher class destroyer nearby. A Yorktown class aircraft carrier. Closeup of a sailor manning a Bofors 40mm antiaircraft gun on board an aircraft carrier. Fletcher class destroyer in background. View from the bridge of troops on open deck of a transport ship. Sailors standing near variety of guns aboard a warship. Sailors scanning skies for enemy aircraft. A Grumman F4F aircraft being launched from deck of an aircraft carrier. Quad Bofors antiaircraft guns being fired and skies filled with black flak clouds. View down from Bridge on the Island of an aircraft carrier, showing antiaircraft gun positions. More views of black flak clouds. Sailors in battle gear on the aircraft carrier deck. Bofors guns firing. View from carrier flight deck of Japanese Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" attacking close to the carrier. It is struck by gunfire and bursts into flames. Another Japanese Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" torpedo bomber passing close to the flight deck. It bursts into flames and crashes into the water, close to the carrier, exploding violently in heavy black smoke. View from carrier of transport ships following.
African American stevedores of U.S. Army Service Battalion, World War 1, transfer military cargo from ships to railroad cars, at seaport, in Bordeaux, France, supplying Base Section Number 2. They move cartons, piled up on pier, to trolleys. U.S. Army officer steps forward to organize work, and another soldier starts to help, tossing cartons to stevedores. Freighter in the background. Stevedore rides past on motorized tractor. Others stand near stack of iron bars, as dock crane lowers cargo net filled with cartons. Stevedores release cargo cartons from crane sling. African American U.S. Army stevedores pose for the camera. Men haul wheel cart and trailer. Crane loads iron bar stack aboard railroad car, as U.S. Army supervisor personally shifts its direction, as it descends, to allow it to fit.
A Lend lease U.S. C-47 (military version of Douglas DC-3 aircraft) is seen in sky above a Soviet airfield during World War 2. It lands and taxis past a Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber, to a parking place. Marshal of Soviet Union, Georgy Zhukov, is seen beside the aircraft along with other senior Soviet military officers. Next, he leads them, walking across a cobblestone path. A factory building is seen in the background. Change of scene shows inside of a large room, with numerous chairs and tables covered with maps. Senior Soviet officers sit at these tables. Camera pans over the scene. General Aleksei Innokentievich Antonov is seen seated at one of the tables. Other Generals and Colonels are seen as the camera moves its focus. Marshal Zhukov presides over the meeting from a table at the front of the room. He is flanked by two other officers. Camera again pans over the assembled group of high ranking officers.
Hanging of Nazi war criminal in Bruchal, Germany. American soldiers lined up. U.S. MP (Military Police) brings a Nazi prisoner to gallows. Hood is placed over condemned man's head, rope is placed over hood and body is dropped through a trap.
Street scene in Munich, Germany, at end of World War II. Germans gathered at a street corner. An American jeep, displaying a single star on its bumper, driving along the street, past boys riding on bicycles. U.S. Brigadier General, carrying brief case, steps from jeep and enters building. Inside, two U.S. soldiers stand in front of a large map labeled Brunn's Plan of Munich. Group of high-ranking German officers enter room with an American soldier interpreter. They discuss the map with the U.S. Brigadier General. Outside a large group of German officers and POW German soldiers is gathered on a sidewalk. A larger group is assembled at a small square in front of buildings, guarded by members of the U.S. 222nd Anti-Tank Company of the 42nd Division. The German troop prisoners line up in formation and march, several abreast, along a street, led by a U.S.Army truck pulling a mobile weapon. Several American soldiers accompany the group. German citizens walking on street and sidewalks seem to ignore the activity. As the German soldiers pass through the ancient Munich Karlstor City Gate at the center of the city (Near Karlsplatz - Stachus, Neuhauser Street), they hold their hands behind their necks.
A film describes functions of Professional Sections of a U.S. Army evacuation hospital in the European Theater during World War II. Doctors and members of a orthopedic team adjust a cast on a wounded soldier's leg. Patients are taken to post-operative tents. A patient being shaved and a patient smoking a cigarette in a post-operative tent. An internal-medicine specialist uses a stethoscope on a patient. A nurse caring for a patient. Men of a Mobile Quartermaster Laundry Unit unload laundry from a truck.
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