British soldiers fight the German Army to liberate the city of Hertogenbosch in Holland from Nazi occupation during World War II. British soldiers advance into outskirts of burning city with several homes on fire. They help extinguishing fire and rescue an old woman. British Churchill tanks advance in fields firing at Germans. British soldiers walk with captured German soldier prisoner of war near an armored vehicle. Houses set afire by Germans. British soldiers crawl in a trench and walk towards a house and drop down as an attack is launched on them. A wrecked German StuG III assault gun near the house with the corpse of its driver in it.
Film beginning shows a line of Indian women carrying large wooden bowls on their heads as they walk past a line of Boeing B-29 Super Fortress bombers parked on an airfield ramp in India during World War 2. A B-29 bomber descends and lands on the airfield runway. Scene shifts to the Boeing factory at Wichita, Kansas, where most of the aircraft were manufactured during World War 2. (They were also made by Bell Aircraft Company in Atlanta (Marietta), Georgia, and by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Omaha, Nebraska.) In the Wichita plant, a large room filled with B-29s under construction is seen. A line of women uses hand power tools to finish aircraft parts. A large section of a B-29, including landing gear and tires, moves by overhead crane to be mated with another section in an assembly operation. Men manually push a landing gear with tires installed, along a floor. Workers walk along underneath an assembled B-29 as it is towed out of the factory. Tail view of a B-29 with engines running. View of man working on a B-29 tail rudder. Wing flaps being lowered in function check. Scene shifts, again, this time to China, where a line of B-29s is seen on a ramp at a secret base. A jeep drives under the left wing of a parked B-29, guarded by an armed Chinese sentry. Chinese laborers work with hand tools to make a ditch to drain water from the airfield ramp. Chinese workers unload and roll 55 gallon drums of gasoline for aircraft fueling. A Chinese name (Ding How!)painted on the fuselage of a B-29. Major General Claire Chennault shakes hands with some of a B-29s crew as they prepare to depart on a bombing mission. A Chinese soldier gives the crew a "thumbs up" sendoff. The B-29 takes off on the mission. a group of airmen sit atop a B-29 to watch the takeoffs. Camera focuses on another takeoff and then shows a B-29 aloft, glinting in sunlight and then cruising above clouds. Glimpse of B-29 flying over snow covered mountains (possibly in Japan).
Allied Air Front invasion bombers of the 9th Air Force of United States Army Air Force raid German held positions on French coast during World War II. B-26 planes take off from a base during dawn and bomb Nazi targets on French coast. Nazi antiaircraft guns fired at them and a plane gets crippled by it. The pilot returns and makes crash landing at the base. Airmen rush for help. The airmen ready planes for another raid on the Nazi French invasion coast. Guided bombs dropped from the bombers destroy Nazi bases. Commanding officer of the 9th Air Force, Major General Lewis H Brereton from the war room in England speaks about the success of Allied bombers in Europe.
Allied forces raid the coast of Normandy in France on the D-Day invasion, during World War II. German soldiers arrested by the Allied soldiers. Allied tanks move on roads of a freed town. The prisoners walk lined up on beach. Supreme Allied Commanders General Eisenhower, General Omar Bradley and General Montgomery aboard a warship smile at the success of D-Day Invasion. Soldiers descend from landing boats and reach the beaches of Normandy. Allied infantrymen march inwards from the beach. War bonds appeal people to join the Allied forces.
Nazi Germans start armament and intensify their preparations for war under leadership of Adolf Hitler in Germany. Interior view of the Nazi headquarters, destroyed by explosion of the anti-Hitler bomb plot in Germany, during World War II, known as the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler. Adolf Hitler at a railroad station awaits Italian leader Benito Mussolini. Mussolini's train arrives; he descends and shakes hand with Adolf Hitler. The two leaders talk while other leaders stand by them. Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering with Schutzstaffe and Vice Minister Heinrich Himmler bid goodbye to Mussolini as he departs by train.
German Army retreats from the Eastern Front and destroy railroads and villages in their way, during World War II. A map shows German expansion on the eastern front in Estonian LIthuanian border in Europe, during World War II. German soldiers retreat from the eastern front towards a new line of defense. German soldiers dynamite railroad tracks and retreat from a burning village. Natives of the village evacuate it with their luggage and livestock. Soviet tanks and trucks damaged by German small arms and artillery fired.
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