A command radio performance at the 20th Century Fox studio in Hollywood, California during World War II. Don Wilson, an American announcer and Carole Landis, an American film actress give a radio performance. Don Wilson reads a request from soldiers abroad to hear Carole Landis sigh. Carole Landis gives an audible sigh to fulfill the request. Board in the background reads 'Command performance U. S. A. war dept'. A Captain and a soldier at work.
Aerial view of buildings and beaches on coast of England, United Kingdom, during World War 2. Narrator describes preparations by British soldiers for an invasion of England by German forces. British soldiers train for defensive operations. They run holding rifles and take up positions along the coast. Artillery gun barrel as the gun is fired. A group of soldiers run carrying guns. Two soldiers walk. A church and a field. A soldier checks the identity of a woman and a man. Another one stops a vehicle and checks the identity of a civilian driver. Soldiers board vehicles. British aircraft overhead in flight, on patrol against German attack. British troops hold guns and march. New recruits are processed: Man in civilian suit stands in queue to receive military uniform and equipment as he enters the British armed forces. A ship carrying troops from Canada departs its home port bound for the war front. Families of the troops wave from dock and wish them good bye.
Allied held POW camp in Tunisia during the North African campaign, around time of capture of Tunis and Axis surrender in North Africa in World War 2. German prisoners of war move about the compound filled with many small tents and tarps for shelter. German prisoners stand beside military trucks. A German soldier wearing a Afrika Korps M41 Cap smokes a cigarette. A group of German soldiers in a loose line in the background.
German prisoners of war gathered near the U.S. Navy Attack Transport ship, USS Thomas Stone, AT-59, at the port of Algiers in World War 2. (The US Thomas Stone was repurposed, after damage, as a floating barracks or processing vessel, especially for handling German and Italian POWs captured.) The German POWs climb a ramp to board the ship. View of them on the ship's deck. U.S. officer and sailor watch as the prisoners board. View of the wharf where lines of German prisoners are boarding. An African American U.S. Navy cook, in chef's white outfit, gives a small card to one of the boarding prisoners. Various views of German prisoners boarding. Scene shifts to view from a small moving boat as it moves out in the harbor.
Slate refers to The Red Army recruiting place at the castle. Many Hungarian and some Russian men are seen. Most are in military uniforms. This is during the brief World War I post-war period when Hungary had a communist Government, the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Slate states that Red soldiers, one of them Russian speaking, appeals to patriotism of the recruitment candidates.
Vichy French troops recruited for the Axis war effort sing as they march through the streets of German-occupied France during World War 2. Soldiers' luggage lying at the train station, as they are inspected. Nazi German soldiers and officers seen near the group at railroad station platform. Soldiers bid farewell to their families. They board the train and wave goodbye. Chalk writing on doors of train includes a Nazi death head symbol and "Vive 8 Compagnie," possibly a reference to the 8th Sturmbrigade SS Frankreich. However, more likely is that these are soldiers of the Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism, or LVF, as a "Vive LVF" message can also be seen written in chalk on the side of a train car. Soldiers and civilians on the platform salute the soldiers as the train leaves the station.
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