Film opens with a map of Europe showing black-shaded region of the Soviet Union, and pointing out Germany and Finland. Next, are shown moving images of rural buildings on fire in Finland, late in 1939, during the Russo-Finish war (or "Winter War"). (The Narrator comments that Finland's population was only 4 million while that of the soviets was 180 million.) Soviet bombers are seen high in the sky. A lone woman hurries along a street in Helsinki, Finland, past rubble of a bombed building. Smoke rises in the background. Finnish fire fighters man a hose to fight numerous huge fires in Helsinki.Various views of fires blazing in the capital.
German forces entering the outskirts of Kaunas, Lithuania, during their surprise offensive on the Eastern Front during World war 2. Three German soldiers stand next to a parked staff car in a town. Several local women in bonnets and babushkas stand behind them.A Panzer III tank breezes past between them and the camera. Lithuanians and ethnic Germans (Volksdeutschen) wave their hats in welcome and one gives a Nazi salute, as a Panzer I tank enters the town. Soldiers on motorcycles and another Panzer I tank follow. Soldiers ride horses pulling artillery caissons camouflaged with tree branches. Soldiers ride in them. Closeup, near the ground, of horses, their trappings and the caissons they pull. Scene shifts to soldiers loading war materiel onto flat raft ferries at a river bank. Soldiers work to load a 105mm light howitzer, model 18, onto a ferry. A ferry carrying several caissons being pushed across the river by a ferryman in a small boat using a long-shaft outboard motor. Another ferry is seen carrying horses and infantrymen. A line of soldiers walk their bicycles along a path beside the river towards a spot where several large river steamer boats are docked. Substantial buildings of old town Kaunas stand on the other side of the river. Camera pans across the cityscape, showing twin spires of the Catholic Church (Jesuit) of St. Francis Xavier and associated buildings. View from riverbank as German soldiers descend its slope and walk towards a riverboat. The arch of a suspension bridge is seen in background. Troops cross a long plank to board the riverboat. View of soldiers gathered on deck of the riverboat. The German flag and the Lithuanian flag, just beneath it, are seen flying atop a tall structure at the port. Later, as German soldiers disembark from riverboats, they are greeted by women, in what appear to be nurses uniforms, who distribute flowers to them. The soldiers proceed along a paved road beside the river. The arched suspension bridge, shown earlier,is now seen to be part of the bridge connecting Old Town with Aleksotas across the Nemunas river. It consists of several arches, but only one is standing, and the rest destroyed. The infantry on bicycles speed down an incline on the road.
U.S. Army 25th Division Liaison Psychological (Psy War) warfare team near Kumwha valley in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. Corporal Roger Mohr drives his jeep towing a two wheeled cargo trailer after completion of the broadcast. Mohr fills out report of the mission in front of a tent. A hand with a fountain pen writes.
U.S. Army Psychological (Psy War) warfare team near Seoul, Korea during the Korean War. A man enters a tent. A sign on a board reads 'Air section Psychological Warfare, G-3 EUSAK'. Looking out from the shack through doorway a truck backs up. Korean labors get out and enter the building and prepare to remove stacks of propaganda leaflets.
U.S. Army 25th Division Liaison Psychological (Psy War) warfare team in Seoul, Korea during the Korean War. A truck pulls away with the leaflets. U.S. Air Force C-47 skytrain. parked. USAF written under the wing of the plane. Three fourth of the truck backs up to C-47. Korean labor seated in the truck. An insignia of the United States on the plane.
U.S. Psychological (Psy War) warfare team in Korea during the Korean War. An officer tapes on target markers on the wall map of Korea. Targets Pyongyang and Hamhung. A board displays previous leaflets produced. Printed matter with statement concerning term 'Needless Death' encircled.
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