U.S. Army General George Marshall arrives in Shanghai, China. A C-54 plane taxis on Kiangwan Airport. Troops lined up in the foreground. Spectators present and MPs (Military Police) hold them back. Generals Marshall and Albert Coady Wedemeyer review guard of honor. General Marshall is introduced to various Chinese officers including Minister of War General Ho Yin-Chin, Mayor of Shanghai General Chien Ta-Chun. Chinese troops are served coffee and dough nuts by the Red Cross. Chinese troops eat. A file of Chinese troops marches off. Reception of General Marshall in Shanghai shows a motorcade through cheering crowds and views of the crowd lining up the streets.
American soldiers and British girls aboard the Queen Elizabeth ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Various views of British girls married to GIs (American soldiers) on the deck of the ship. Two army nurses walk on the deck. Promenade deck with GIs walking about. GIs and their brides on the deck. A war correspondent, an officer and a ship's officer converse. A group of Polish and American officers talking.
United States soldiers in Copenhagen, Denmark. United States soldiers and civilians in City Hall Square of recently liberated Copenhagen in World War II. Hotel Bristol is seen in the background. Soldiers eat in a sidewalk café, buy groceries, and stroll down the streets. A soldier looks at a shop window.
United States Army soldiers in Copenhagen, Denmark. U.S. soldiers and civilians in the streets of recently liberated Copenhagen in World War II. A soldier visits a jewelry shop. Soldiers and civilians attend Tivoli's Pantomime Theater. A soldier and a woman stroll in Tivoli Gardens.
Opening scene shows Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, accompanied by many German military officers, as he mingles with German citizens in Berlin. Admiring female workers speak to Goebbels. Goebbels boosts the German workers’ morale during the Allied bombings of Berlin in World War II. Camera focuses on the Quadriga statue atop the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany). A military brass band leads troops marching through the Brandenburg Gate, along the Unter den Linden boulevard. View of the parade further along the Unter den Linden, with spectators watching from the sidewalks.
Animated map starts the film, showing the Eastern (Russian) front in vicinity of the Dnieper River, during beginning of winter, 1943-44, as German forces battle against Soviet forces in World War 2. German troops are seen in deep trenches and lying prone behind rubble. Light snow covers the ground. Closeups of German tiger tanks moving along a muddy path beside a river. German Panzergrenadiers taking a smoking break during a lull in combat. German soldiers trudging through mud as snow falls. They pass by some German artillery field pieces firing at Soviet positions. Heavy German guns firing. German troops hurrying toward entrenched positions. Closeup of two soldiers conversing as one points toward Soviet positions. A soldier takes up his defensive spot at the mouth of a dugout at the end of a trench. Closeup of two German soldiers smoking cigarettes. A German soldier reports to an officer at the front, who pins a medal on him and shakes his hand. Another view of a soldier smoking a cigarette. German soldiers walk past some knocked out tanks. Closeups as they pass the camera. One soldier looks skyward. A large formation of German Junkers Ju 87 (Stuka) dive bombers is seen overhead. View from a Stuka cockpit, as it dives emitting classic sound. Stuka aircraft diving and dropping bomb that are seen bursting on ground below. Good closeup of Stuka in a dive.
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