United States Marines seen marching on docks at port near Quantico Virginia, boarding ships for secret war games in the Caribbean. The Marines are seen boarding the battleships USS New York (BB-34) and USS Wyoming (BB-32). Ships head for the open sea and secret war maneuvers.
United States 90th Infantry Division occupies Chambois in France during World War 2. Soldiers patrol in streets of Chambois. An M4 medium tank parked in the street. Soldier on alert, advances in front of a building. View of war wrecked buildings with smoke in the background. Group of soldiers stands next to an M-10 tank destroyer.
Opening scene of film shows war damage with rubble at sides of street in Leipzig, Germany, during final days of World War 2, in Europe. American soldiers are hunkered down on sidewalks near buildings, attempting to combat snipers from across the street. Smoke rises from part of the building, and a white flag is seen in the window of another part of the building. Several American soldiers fire their rifles at the building. A puff of white smoke rises from the building. A Sherman tank is seen parked on the street. Shaky closeups of the target building with smoke coming from several windows. Change of scene shows a Sherman tank moving along the pathway of a tram. Closeup from behind of an American soldier firing his rifle from the corner of a building. Camera moves back showing another soldier speaking on a field telephone. Several German civilians walking past the area. Several soldiers patrolling along a sidewalk. German civilians congregating in small groups on a sidewalk. A man in one group waves a white handkerchief. Two Sherman tanks moving along a street. An American soldier hunkered down by a building corner while a uniformed German Sergeant stands calmly, next to him. A Sherman tank turns a corner on a street.
Overview of German logistics port at the Kerch Strait in Crimea, during World War 2. Smoke is rising in background from bombing by Soviet warplanes. Port facilities include a rail line and several piers. German soldiers crank up the door of a troop amphibious landing boat as it pulls away from the shore. Boats flying the German war ensign. Several of these boats carrying supplies move along the waterway. Scene shifts to airborne German Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers in action. Closeups of some of them. Stukas diving with whine, and bombs striking Soviet targets below.
Battle scenes outside the snow covered city of Stalingrad, Russia, Soviet Union, as Soviet forces attack German forces that had encircled the city. Aerial view of Soviet Sukhoi Su-2 light bomber aircraft as it releases bombs on Nazi German positions. Soviet soldiers on the ground using flame throwers against German positions. Three Soviet RF-8 (GAZ-98) Aerosled (aircraft engine powered ice sled) are seen racing by camera position over snow covered terrain. Large batteries of Katyusha rocket launchers fire rockets toward German positions. Soviet soldiers advancing across open fields. Map depicting how Axis power was squeezed in early 1943 and defeated by the Soviet forces that had encircled it during Operation Uranus in late November 1942. Scenes of ruined city of Stalingrad from bombing in World War 2. A soviet soldier covers an artillery gun barrel after it fires a last shot in February 1943. Powerful sceneshowing bombed out Stalingrad buildings and one large building on fire, with a lifesize outdoor art sculpture of happy Soviet children playing in a circle in the foreground. Soviet civilians greet and embrace the defending Soviet soldiers and fly a Soviet flag. Group of German soldiers waving a white flag emerge from a blockhouse and surrender as prisoners of war to Soviet soldiers. Contingent of senior German generals and officers under Friedrich Paulus are seen during surrender, including General Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach. General Arthur Schmidt, General Maximilian von Daniels, and General Edler von Daniel.
Soldiers play tug of war as a part of army athletic activity. Soldiers of the two teams pull rope towards their side in a tug of war. Soldiers around the teams cheer them. Men on horses are seen at an end. A dog passes by.
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