French Marshal Petain, now Premier, following Battle of France, walks to a car and seen later at conference table with Pierre Laval and other national leaders. View of Adolf Hitler, with close associates, expressing delight after signing of the second armistice at Compiegne,ending resistance by France, on June 22, 1940. German honor guard marching near Marshal Foch's railroad car where the 1918 armistice was signed. Monument of Marshal Foch. Hitler, Hermann Goering, and Admiral Raeder, head of the Kriegsmarine, review the honor guard. German stand at steps of the rail car. Raeder, and Goering, both carrying Marshal's batons, flank Hitler. French Army General Charles Huntziger, accompanied by General Jean Bergeret,Air Minister, Vice Admiral Le Luc, Commander of Maritime Forces, and Ambassador Leon Noel, are escorted by two German officers. They enter the railroad carriage. View inside, as Hitler, Goering and German representatives stand when they enter. Newspaper headline describes tax on France for German occupation. French prisoners of war in an outdoor yard and being moved to Germany. French prisoners in bucket brigade and carrying construction materials. French workers engaged in labor to support German war effort. Unhappy French children. Public funerals for persons executed by the Germans. German flag draped over the Foch statue. Hitler's touring motorcade passes Arc de Triomphe in Paris in early morning when streets are empty. Parisians gather on streets to hear German orders broadcast. Many express distress. In Southern France, Military units carry their colors as they depart for North Africa. General Charles de Gaulle is among the marchers. De Gaulle seen reviewing contingents of French military. Free French soldiers parading in London, England. Military officers salute as the ship carrying Regimental colors departs. French colors carried beside unit with American flag. General Charles de Gaulle and General Henri Giraud at 1943 Casablanca Conference (Roosevelt and Churchill seated).
A film titled ' Management labor sign for post war unity' shows William Green,Phillip Murray and Eric Johnston sign a pact at labor-management conference in Washington D.C.,United States for better labor management relations after World War II.
General Douglas McArthur and Major General Spencer B. Akin wait at an airport for the arrival of United States War Manpower Commissioner, Paul V McNutt. McNutt, also the High Commissioner of the Philippine Commonwealth during World War II, arrives and General McArthur greets him and other members of the party as they get off the plane.
Film made in 1946 recounts use of RADAR in World War 2. Air raid sirens sounding in London, England,1940, during Battle of Britain. Air raid warden helps people to shelters during blitz bombing run by German Luftwaffe aircraft. German He 111 bombers in formation overhead. Woman scoops up child. British gunners man a 3.7 inch antiaircraft gun. Farmer rides horse-drawn plow. RAF airman rings alert bell that reads: "Don't come and tell.Ring this like hell." RAF pilots scramble to their Spitfire fighter planes and take to the air from a British airbase or aerodrome. German He 111 bombers being intercepted.Wreckage of German bombers. Evening views of London. Prime Minister Winston Churchill contributing to a war drive and receiving a pin from a woman. He doffs or tips his hat. Technician using a slide rule. Early British radar antenna tower. A U.S. P-38 aircraft in flight. Animated diagrams explaining how radar works. Radar operators at their screens receiving radar transmissions. U.S. Army soldier operating antiaircraft radar in the field. Antiaircraft gun firing and downing an airplane. Artllerymen decorate gun barrel with symbols for enemy aircraft downed. A U.S. B-29 bomber in flight with bomb bays open. Bombardier with bomb sight having radar and optic options, using radar to sight target. Bombs away view of bombs falling from aircraft through clouds. A U.S. P-61 night fighter aircraft equipped with airborne radar. Hand of pilot of P-61 pressing button to fire on enemy aircraft at night. A C-47 transport aircraft flying in poor visibility makes a ground controlled approach and landing enabled by radar. A U.S. Navy F6F landing with radar help, on an aircraft carrier. A U.S. battleship. Sailors quickly get up from sleeping bunks responding to battle stations at night. Radar antenna rotating on a U.S. warship. Naval guns firing at night. U.S. heavy cruisers bombarding a shoreline. A submarine underway submerged. Navy ship tracking enemy submarine. Destroyer firing depth charges. A PBY Catalina flying over a convoy of ships.
Views of Budapest, Hungary before World War II. Bridge across the Danube River. People walking across the Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Budapest, Széchenyi Lánchíd, 1051 Hungary). Dome of St. Stephen’s Basilica (Budapest, Szent István tér 1, 1051 Hungary). Statue of Prince Eugene of Savoy at Buda Castle (Savoyai Jenő herceg lovasszobra, Buda Castle, Budapest, 1013 Hungary). Buda Castle grounds. View of Budapest as seen from Buda Castle. The Fisherman’s Bastion (Budapest, Szentháromság tér, 1014 Hungary). Hungarian Parliament Building as seen from the stone railings in the Fisherman’s Bastion. The late-Gothic Matthias Church (Mátyás Templom Budapest, Szentháromság tér 2, 1014 Hungary). The Holy Trinity Statue (Budapest, Szentháromság u., 1014 Hungary). A woman and her two daughters climb the stone stairs of a Budapest Street. Skyline of Budapest. Budapest bridges along the Danube River. Cars driving through the Széchenyi Chain Bridge. Numerous views of many famous buildings and monuments throughout Budapest. Narrator speaks about why the city of Budapest never lost its beauty and charm after five years of war and ten years of communism. This significant period has turned the Hungarians into a resilient race, proud of their national heroes who fought for Budapest.
United States soldiers march German prisoners of war to sea shore in World War II. Prisoners are rounded up for interrogation. View of many ships off the coast as landing operations are in affect. A wounded United States soldier on litter, surrounded by a group of United States medics, is given blood plasma. Other wounded soldiers on litters and medics treating them.
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