U.S. Marines in prone position fire with guns. The troops fire and advance in the wooded region. They throw hand grenades. Smoke rises due to explosion. Nat sound gun fire. The troops behind trees fire with guns. They advance slowly. A soldier firing with a machine gun. Several views of troops firing with guns during active battle. A chaplain treats an injured.
U.S. soldiers are seen walking into a village already occupied by U.S. infantrymen, who are lined up carrying their individual mess gear as they move in an outdoor chow line. A little smoke can be seen from an outdoor mess stove (unseen). A sign identifies the town as: "Bitschhofen, Kreis Hagenau." The arriving U.S. troops continue, walking through, and out of the town, along a wet muddy road. Other soldiers, in the town, bring their food back from their mess kitchen. The troops passing through, slog in the mud.
Artillerymen of the U.S. 93rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion are seen carrying 105mm artillery shells in their stowage cases. They dump them onto the ground near their 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 (aka Priest) parked under camouflage netting. Change of scene shows two soldiers removing shells from a parked delivery vehicle. Several other soldiers stand around a camp fire. Another vehicle and a couple of tents are seen. The horizon is clear and unbroken except for three widely separated trees and two pointed objects (possibly church steeples) in the distance. Four soldiers relax and converse around a campfire. One smokes a pipe.
First scene shows President Harry Truman shaking hands with Joseph Stalin on a porch of the Cecilienhof ( home of Crown Prince Wilhelm) in Potsdam, Germany. The two leaders are accompanied by their respective foreign ministers, James F. Byrnes, U.S. Secretary of State, and Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vyacheslav Molotov. Stalin descends steps from the building followed by Truman. View of the back lawn at Cecilienhof. View of its front entrance. Various views of the house and grounds. American, Soviet, and British flags flying from the building. Cars carrying the leaders on road to the Cecilienhof. President Truman and James Byrnes entering outside gate, followed by other attendees. Then Stalin is seen entering followed by Soviet officers and officials. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF) in Europea and U.S. Army Chief of Staff. George Marshall are seen walking together in a wooded glade on the meeting grounds. British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, entering the grounds for the meeting. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin stand on a step before an entrance to Cecilienhof. Truman places their hands together in a mutual handshake, at which Churchill and Stalin laugh. Views of the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral, in Red Square, Moscow, Russia where foreign minsters of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union are seen meeting meeting in conference at the Spiridonovka Palace in October, 1943. Closeup of Soviet Prime Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, and U.S. Secretary of State, Warren Hull, successively signing a document. Scene shifts, to a C-47 transport aircraft flying over great pyramid of Giza in Cairo, Egypt. Next, the front of the Soviet Embassy in Teheran, Iran, is shown. The "Big Three" (Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill) sit on the porch of the building. Military officers from their countries stand behind them. Narrator (Franklin D. Roosevelt) says they agreed to launch a gigantic attack on Germany. Scene shifts to Germany, where German military is paraded on public display, showing artillery, Panzer I tanks carried aboard army trucks, Heinkel He 111 bombers in formation overhead, and marching troops giving Nazi salute silhouetted against bright pavement. View shifts to the Livadia Palace, in Yalta, Crimea, Russia. Brief view of the "Big Three" and their staffs sitting around a conference table. Change of location to San Francisco, California, where flags of many nations are displayed along with a United Nations Logo. Representatives of the many nations sign the Charter of the United Nations, founding the U.N. organization on 26 June 1945. Film shifts to Germany where victorious American, British and Soviet troops shake hands and celebrate victory. They share drinks and toast victory.
Opening scene shows German infantry marching along a road next to a body of water. A horse-drawn wagon carries some supplies. A German Army soldier climbs atop a stone monument with a metal representation of the word, showing the North and South arctic circles. It is dated 1937. He attaches a ribbon to the sculpture. Views of Norwegian coastal defense guns. German Navy gunships underway in background. Closeups of some gunships. Aerial views of German Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft flying in formation over snow-covered mountains in Bergen, Norway. View from co-pilot's seat in a bomber. The He 111s flying low over a body of water. A long steel bridge over a body of water. German soldiers standing guard on the bridge, with a bicycles, and a tripod mounted M42 machine gun, as German troops on motorcycles pass along the bridge. sign on bridge marking boundary between two administrative entities (counties). Troops on bicycles riding across the bridge. Glimpse of coastal defense guns in Denmark and a German Soldier sentry.
A U.S. Army staff car displaying a bumper plate with three stars, arrives at a building in Nieuwkerk, Netherlands, being used as headquarters of the U.S. Ninth Army's XVI Corps. Military policemen guard the entrance. Occupants step from the car. Next, Ninth Army Commander, Lieutenant General William H. Simpson, is seen standing in front of the building, with XVI Corps Commander, Major General John B. Anderson (momentarily hatless). In next scene both generals pose (Anderson now wearing his steel helmet). As the two converse, a British staff car drives up. The two American generals salute, as British Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery steps from the car. Next, Montgomery stands in the street, removing his overcoat (with a little difficulty), as he chats with the two U.S. generals. A military photographer, in the background, takes pictures. The three leaders continue their conversations on the sidewalk in front of the building. Closeup of Marshal Montgomery speaking as two army photographers are seen, along with some town dwellings, in the background.
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