A documentary by Ford Motor Company depicts military aviator Eddie Rickenbacker returning to New York. Eddie is greeted by an officer and a small boy. A close up of Rickenbacker. Officers stand in the background. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
British 8th Army tanks roll past wreckage of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Corps in Libya during World War II . Wrecked German tanks, German airplanes and guns litter the desert. British troops stand around a field gun. A wrecked truck in the background. A wrecked Nazi seaplane. British 8th Army troops on tanks roll past the wreckage. A burning German truck. The British troops in tanks and jeeps cross a flooded road. Supply bases are established on the route. Harbor at at Marsa Matruh Egypt littered with wrecked supply ships and German seaplanes. Nazi prisoners in trucks along a road towards a prison camp. Italian prisoners driving themselves to prison camps even though not under guard. Nazi prisoners in line entering a prisoner of war camp. A high ranked Nazi officer is searched. Some Nazi prisoners seated and a few stand.
The Allies mount an amphibious landing in North Africa during World War 2. U.S. ships underway at sea. German forces attack the ships. View of guns firing and tracers visible in night sky during battle. Scene changes to day time and a group of German soldier and officer prisoners of war (POW), many pilots from German Luftwaffe, carry their luggage and board a ship en route to a prison camp. They climb up the ship's ladder at port. Captured shells on the ground. Destroyed German armored vehicle. A knocked out German Panzer IV tank is examined by U.S. soldiers.
Lumberjacks in a Canadian forest cut Douglas fir. A luberjack man cuts a tree with an axe. Men use axes for cutting tress. The trees fall. Many views of giant trees crashing to the ground after they are cut. A railroad train loaded with logs cross a bridge. The logs are dropped in a river for transport. The workers walking on floating logs in the water work to send the logs down the river to saw mills so they can be cut into lumber for use in the war effort during World War 2.
Italian fliers land their aircraft at an Allied occupied air base (probably in Southern Italy) to join the Allies for the war against Nazi Germany during World War II. A three-engine Italian Savoia-Marchetti bomber in flight. The aircraft lands at the airfield. Other aircraft parked on the airfield. A hangar in the background. Italian fliers step from the aircraft. U.S. and Italian officer exchange greetings. Aircraft in formation. Italian fighter aircraft land and taxi at the air base. Officers and fliers. The fliers leave their aircraft. Italian fliers seated around a table eat American meal.
A documentary shows a training program of U.S. hand picked volunteer soldiers in a secret training camp for guerrilla warfare during World War II. An OSS officer and a student wearing a mask at a field demonstrate use of different hand weapons to kill the opponent with the help of slow motion sequences. The officer demonstrates and uses Judo to disarm assailant holding weapon. The student holds a paper and the officer hits it with a kosh. A led weight is attached to the cylinder. The officer holds a knife and demonstrates the different uses of knife in the war. A hand holds a small pistol which can be used in emergency
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