General Dwight D Eisenhower, General Spaatz and Air Marshal Mallory discuss the plan for invading Normandy, France during World War II. Supplies are massed in England for the invasion. British soldiers and U.S. Army soldiers preparing for invasion and boarding ships for the voyage across the English Channel. Some British troops carry bicycles on board. U.S. soldiers marching toward landing craft and boarding landing craft. United States bomber aircraft fly and bombard coastal defenses in France. Aerial camera view from inside allied aircraft as it flies low over German Atlantic Wall defenses and fires rockets at the coastal defenses. Aerial view of beaches of Normandy in the days soon after the D-Day invasion of France. Allied troops landing and bringing supplies ashore. Groups of German soldier prisoners of war lined up under Allied guard. General Montgomery visits Normandy, arriving and jumping down to the beach from a DUKW amphibious vehicle. People in England receive news about the invasion through newspapers. British citizens holding the Evening Standard newspaper with headline reading "The Invasion of Europe Begins." British civilians buying newspapers and reading the news. A busy street in England and a queue of people buying newspapers at a newsstand. View of Allied aircraft flying in formation and closeup views of faces of British civilians looking up at the sky.
American soldiers amidst military vehicles and landing crafts on a beach in France during World War II as smoke emerges from a ship at the coast. German prisoners of war move with their hands behind their heads. American soldiers clean sand and water from their rifles.
Color guard carrying flags of Allies of World War I at a victory pageant at Belle Isle in Detroit,Michigan. They pass the steps of a large building with costumed children and band on the steps. Veterans of other war on stage. Dignitaries representing Allied countries around a table on stage. One of them in a military uniform delivers a speech.
United States Army missionary and Allied prisoner of war Alfred L. Griffith recounts how he was tortured and made to dig trenches by Imperial Japanese Army troops during World War II in Manila, Philippines.
A man interviews two Allied prisoners of war who became good friends at Los Banos camp during World War II. They speak into a microphone at Bilibid prison in Muntinlupa, Philippines. They speak about their profession, life at Japanese prison camp and their friendship.
German soldiers goosestep march into Oslo,Norway, in World War 2. Flasback scene of German refugee children being fed by Norwegians circa 1919, after World War 1, during time of shortages and depression Germany. Animated map showing path of German invasion and area between Hamar and Elverum, Norwegian army resists. Norwegian troops firing artillery. Two Norwegian Army soldiers in snow. One aims a Krag-Jørgensen rifle (film is reversed). German bombers overhead. Norwegian troops taking cover. German He-111 bomber dropping bombs. He-111 diving. Norwegian soldiers run for cover. Bombs exploding on the ground. Me-109 fighter plane strafing. Norwegian soldiers fleeing North. Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers in formation. U.S. Army Captain, Robert M. Losey, in uniform.(He was military attache in Norway and killed during a German bombardment.) German troops occupying various parts of Norway. German paratroopers landing on snow in mountains. He-111s dropping bombs. Bombs bursting on ground. Norwegian civilians in city, flee bombings. Me-109 planes in flight. Two Norwegian women look skyward. German Luftwaffe Stuka dive bombers attacking. A woman running past burning wreckage. Bombs falling from He-111 aircraft. Huge bomb explosion. Junkers Ju-52 trimotor aircraft flying low. Women and children run for shelter. Civilians crowd into open truck to escape. Burning buildings. German troops occupying Norwegian forts. Allied troops landing in Norway, under air attack. Animated map shows limits of allied air forces. British troops carrying wounded. Allied bombardment at Narvik. Allied troops occupy the town. Allies defend against German counter-attacks at Narvik. British troops with German prisoners. Stuka dive bombers attack Allied warships that fight back with antiaircraft guns. Picture of Vidkun Quisling. Hitler on cover of Time magazine. Narrator makes comparisons between Hitler and Gangsters of the 1930s. Gangster John Dillinger being arraigned in the United States. Gangsters and mob firing guns and machine guns shooting from moving cars of gangsters in the 1930s. Dead body of John Dillinger laid out on a autopsy or mortuary table in 1934. Map show Nazi plans for total conquest.
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