A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. United States soldiers being trained in the use of recoilless rifle. Men fire recoilless rifles. Soldiers fire rifles during a training exercise. Smoke rises. A soldier look through binoculars. Scene changes to Korea. North Korean Army soldiers on motorbikes, bicycles and horses advance in Korea during the Korean War. Artillery and mortars being set up and fired by North Korean forces. U.S. Army soldiers carrying rifles advance in Korea during the Korean War. American Army soldiers take up positions on hills overlooking a valley and are seen firing at North Korean enemy positions. U.S. Army soldiers return to the United States after the Korean War. They disembark from a ship. The soldiers loaded in trucks move past cheering crowds in a New York parade.
Scenes from a popular British movie about World War One, released after the war, in the 1920's. British troops fight against the Germans in Thiepval and Gommecourt, France during World War I. British soldiers advance across no man's land. Germans fire machine gun at them from fortified position. Views of the German gunners inside their position. Advancing British troops fall to the machine gun fire. German troops firing rifles at the British troops from sandbagged bunker. Scenes of German troops regaining their trenches at Gammecourt, climbing over the bodies of fallen British troops from the London and Midland Divisions.
British soldiers moving horses and supplies through thick mud during the First World War. A soldier with his face covered with mud. A shell bursts showering British soldiers with shrapnel, as they hunker down in the mud at night. In daytime scene British infantry advances across no man's land as the unit piper plays bagpipes and marches along crest of hill in World War 1. (Slate states Piper Richardson was killed later that day and was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry.) Scenes are from a British film released post-war.
German Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer and Eastern Front troops in a munitions plant in Germany during World War II. The Eastern front troops arrive at the munitions plant. The German war production workers in the plant seated at a table and drinking from jugs. An officer and soldiers talking to workmen. The troops inside the plant looking at the production processes. The troops looking at an equipment in the plant. They watch a worker operating an equipment. Albert Speer with other officials on his visit to a munitions plant. The minister congratulates the workers of the plant during his speech. People gathered around him. Views of the workmen smiling. The minister talking to an officer and a few people in the crowd. The minister walking through the crowd.
The Russian Campaign of World War II. German troops on a tank moving on a path. Russian prisoners of war walking in columns behind the tank. A German soldier escorting the Soviet prisoners. An army vehicle following the prisoners. A building in the background. Several views of the war prisoners.
U.S. 3rd Infantry Division, 38th Infantry Regiment in Coupray, France during World War 1. Inspector General of American Expeditionary Force (AEF), Major General Andre W. Brewster and Commanding General of U.S. 3rd Infantry Division, Major General Joseph Theodore Dickman, review troops. The troops on horses. Soldiers carrying guns march on a field. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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