A railroad train carrying a U.S. Navy 14-inch railway gun, on a Mk I gun car, along with other cars containing associated personnel,supplies and equipment, arriving at a depot in France, during World 1. Most of the cars are marked "USN." In next scene, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, stands in a field with two U.S. Navy Captains and U.S. Army Major General Henry T. Allen, along with two other Army officers. General Allen escorts Roosevelt to the railway gun train, where he climbs aboard the rear access door of the Mk I car. An American flag flies over the car. Camera pans along the car to where Roosevelt is seen standing beneath the 14-inch gun barrel. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
U.S. soldiers on the Western Front during the Grand Offensive of World War I. A truck parked on a field. A narrow gorge through a camp. Soldiers cooking food in a field kitchen. Prisoners of war are marched along an area under guard. Soldiers in a dug out petting a dog. A soldier stands outside a building. Sign boards on a building.
U.S. soldiers in Holland during World War 2. Soldiers aboard a jeep passing on a street. Trees in the area. 376th Field Unit hospital on the outskirts of Nijmegen. Two U.S. soldiers carry a tank of blood into the building. American soldiers standing among wounded German prisoners of war lying on litters outside the building and mingling with ambulatory wounded German soldiers in a garden. Closups of several German wounded on stretchers. Local civilians including a nurse in white, helping the wounded. Red Cross corpsman making out identification tags for wounded. Ambulatory wounded standing and walking about in front of the building. U.S. wounded soldiers being transported by jeep and removed from field ambulances. One being carried by a single soldier, into a building and others following on litters. (Note: The gentleman in white coat, at TC: 00:56 to 00:59, has been identified, by his son, as J. Th. van der Schoot, then 35 years old, who worked at the Canisius hospital in Nijmegen, and lived across the street from the 376th Field Unit hospital at Houtlaan nr.19, Nijmegen.)
German soldiers rise up and advance across a farm field in Normandy France, during World War 2. They fire a Flak 88 gun. Canadian Prisoners of war are escorted, by armed guard, across the field. A wrecked Canadian Sherman tank, broken tracks and shell holes on tanks. A Sweat shirt is layed out for a photograph. The words: "Canadian Armoured Corps" are printed on the shirt.
U.S. Democratic Party leader Adlai Ewing Stevenson arrives in Korea during the Korean War. A jeep parked on a field. Stevenson reviews troops. He talks to the soldiers and shakes hands with them. A tent in the background. A high altitude view of the area. Stevenson arrives at the war front in a navy airplane. He gets off the airplane and talks to an officer.
A former German prisoner of war in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Former prisoner of war, Reinhold Pabel, is the proprietor of a local book store when the FBI locates him. Views of several shelves of books in the Chicago Book Mart store. Pabel places a book in a rack. His wife and 8 month old child are seen in the book store. Pabel plays with his son. He faces deportation back to Germany, after having established himself in Chicago under a new name.
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