A training of U.S. air cadets in the United States during World War II. U.S. air cadets leave trucks on a field and dive for cover as U.S. bombers drop chalk bombs during the training. More bombs are dropped. The cadets lying on the ground.
U.S. Navy ships launched in the United States during World War II. Lieutenant Commander Mildred H. McAfee, USNR (US Navy Reserve), Director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) breaks a bottle of champagne on the bow of a carrier and christens USS Franklin (CV-13) in Newport News, Virginia on 14th October, 1943. A destroyer is launched at the Great Lakes. The destroyer is turned into an upright position. Shipyard workers cheer. A ship is launched sideways.
U.S. airplanes and the 5th Army fight in Italy during World War II. Gun crews fire camouflaged artillery guns. Smoke rises from a hillside. U.S. airplanes bombard enemy territory. Nazi German supply lines are bombarded by bombers. Allied tanks roll ahead. Allied troops search for snipers in a captured Italian town. U.S. Army General Mark Wayne Clark watches while his men fire guns and mortars. Prisoners are freed in Cosenza and food is distributed by officials of Allied Military Government in Italy.
Funeral ceremonies in Munich, Germany during World War II. German troops lined up in front of a building. Rudolf Hess who is the Deputy to German Chancellor Adolf Hitler gives a Nazi salute and walks ahead. At a memorial building, wreaths are lined up including one bearing a ribbon with Adolf Hitler written on it. Rudolf Hess and other German officials lay wreaths for Nazis who perished in an explosion during a party meeting at a Munich Rathskeller (The Bürgerbräukeller beer hall).
Damage and ruin caused by an attempt on German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's life in Germany during World War II. Ruins and debris of the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall where a bomb had exploded minutes after Adolf Hitler spoke in the hall at a Nazi party meeting. The debris is inspected. Victims on hospital beds. A victim of the bombing is interviewed in his hospital bed and he expresses relief that Hitler was safe. A German crowd in Munich pays homage to the dead. The crowd salutes flag-draped caskets of the eight killed in the blast. German troops lined up. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler salutes the flag-draped caskets and lays a wreath. Hitler meets family members of the dead. The caskets are carried along a street by the troops during funeral ceremonies. One of the wreaths bears a ribbon with wording "Adolf Hitler". A German crowd salutes the funeral procession.
German diplomat Friedrich Werner von Schulenberg, of Nazi Germany, and Vyacheslav Molotov, of the Soviet Union meet together in Moscow, Russia, to sign the German-Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement. View of the two men and other representatives from each country at the signing ceremony. Narrator indicates that the agreement document covers expanded trade and commerce between the countries, establishes the northern border, and covers repatriation of Germans from republics including Lithuania and Estonia. View of the German and Soviet leaders each signing the document. Wax seals are added and a close-up of the signature page of the agreement is shown. (The Agreement also included the third set of secret protocols of the Hitler-Stalin Act or German-Soviet Treaty of Nonaggression. It followed the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty, which was the second secret protocol. Despite the pact, Germany attacked the Soviet Union 6 months later.) (World War II period).
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