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Montage of Swedish military preparedness activities in World War II
Film opens with brief glimpse of Swedish soldiers (wearing M21 steel helmets) rushing to take positions in a defensive trench during World War 2. Scene shifts to infantry in combat gear, including shouldered blanket rolls, as they demonstrate ability to rapidly take up defensive positions. (Numerous automobiles parked in the background, indicating this is a demonstration.) Scene shifts to coastal defenses in Sweden, where heavy guns are seen firing from underground fortifications near a coastline. Swedish troops (wearing M37 steel helmets) firing a Browning M17 water-cooled machine gun from a protected position. Swedish troops (in M21 helmets) firing double-mounted Kulspruta m/36 water-cooled 8mm machine gun (modified Browning design dual mounted). Pattern of bullets splashing near floating targets offshore. Glimpse of a 29/33 M. 80mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun. Biplanes: Swedish J8 Gloster Gladiator MK I bi-wing pursuit aircraft seen flying low in formation over a grass field. Swedish T3 aircraft in formation. (These are Junkers Ju 86 K-13 aircraft built by SAAB, under license, and converted to torpedo bombers. They are flown by Swedish Wing F 17.) The pursuit planes stage mock attacks on the formation of T-3 bombers. Aerial closeups of a J8 in flight. Next, from very close up, one of the fuselage-mounted Browning .303 machine guns on a J8, is seen firing. Two of the bombers drop out of their formation and descend, as if they had been hit. (This is all a demonstration, carefully enacted.)
Japanese paratroopers attack Palembang in Dutch East Indies during World War II.
Japanese attack on Palembang, Dutch East Indies, during World War 2. Japanese paratroopers debark from a plane before an attack on oil field in Palembang, Dutch East Indies. Fleet of Japanese aircraft in flight. Pilot and co-pilot seated inside the aircraft. Japanese paratroopers descend on ground with parachutes. Paratroopers run and gather their equipment after descending and engage in fire fights. A destroyed American aircraft is seen. smoke rising from Japanese bombardment of the city and oil processing installations.
German, Italian and Japanese children march in uniform and participate in fascist military training before World War II.
German teacher teaches young boys and girls in a classroom. Children sing in praise of Adolf Hitler and give Nazi salute. Picture of Hitler with the Nazi flag. Italian children in uniforms at school salute images of Benito Mussolini. Young Japanese boy children are led in a Banzai cheer by a military instructor in Japan. German Hitler Youth play drums and trumpets in a band during a rally. German boys in the band march with drums as others stand by. In Japan, view of young Japanese boys in military uniforms marching beside drill instructors. In Italy during World War II, a group of Italian boys in military uniform march in a parade. A very young toddler boy stands in uniform and raises his left hand in a fascist salute but is corrected by a nearby adult who helps him to raise his right hand instead. Pairs of Italian boys and girls salute each other with raised fascist salutes. Italian youth in military uniforms march in front of the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome (the Altare della Patria also known as the Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II or Il Vittoriano).
Japanese carrier-based Zero airplanes attack U.S. Navy warships in the Pacific during the Battle of Midway in World War II
Opening scene shows bombs exploding in the water next to a U.S. aircraft carrier during the Battle of Midway in World War 2. View from an American warship of a Japanese Carrier-based Zero aircraft attacking low above the water. Bombs exploding all around an aircraft carrier with aircraft parked on her flight deck. Black smoke rising from a bomb striking the carrier. Somewhat obscured view of Japanese aircraft maneuvering and black flak clouds in the sky, from antiaircraft guns firing at the Japanese planes. A large explosion in the water. A barrage balloon seen aloft. Glimpse of U.S. warship on fire, viewed from another U.S. ship.
American Essex class aircraft carrier struck by Japanese Kamikaze during World War II
Film opens showing sky full of black clouds from bursting flak as a Japanese Kamikaze plane dives down through clouds, in World War 2. It strikes an American Essex class aircraft carrier amidships and explodes in flames and smoke.
US, British and Polish Naval officers receive American submarines in New London, Connecticut. during World War II.
U.S. Navy transfers submarines to British and Free Polish Governments in New London, Connecticut during World War 2.. Film begins showing an American Navy Lieutenant reading from a document as a Navy Commander stands nearby. They are addressing officers and crew on a U.S. submarine being transferred to the British Navy. A large audience of sailors stand on a pier across the water in the background. A British sailor is silhouetted as he salutes from the deck of the boat. The submarine's officers and crew step up onto the dock, and then sailors return to the submarine and stand in formation along with their captain and other officers, on the deck near the boat's deck gun. A sailor atop the submarine raises the British Navy White Ensign on its mast, as the officers and crew salute. The sailor then fastens the Royal Navy Commissioning Pennant containing the Cross of St. George, above and behind the Ensign atop the submarine. The officers salute again. Scene changes to a submarine transferred to the Polish, where Polish sailors raise a Naval Ensign containing the seal of the Polish Government in Exile. Closeup of Polish Navy Commander standing on the pier with Polish officers and crew behind him on the deck of the newly transferred submarine. Next, the Polish officers and crew are seen in formation on the pier. The Polish officers and crew on their submarine. Glimpse of the British Officers and crew on their submarine. A final scene with Polish captain and his crew on their submarine.
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