Film begins with a slate reading: " Cabanatuan." Next, American Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts, and Philippine Guerillas are seen wading across a shallow river on their way to rescue American prisoners held at a Japanese prison camp near Cabanatuan City, in the Philippines, during World War 2 .Scene shifts to American prisoners of war standing in formation outside a large building. Their hands are tied behind their backs. A new slate appears reading: "Men Awaiting Hospital Treatment after Liberation." Liberating American soldiers stand beside a Sherman tank conversing with several former POWs (prisoners of war). One of them looks quite emaciated. Another slate appears reading: "Beri-Beri,"followed by a closeup of the emaciated American just seen conversing with American soldiers in front of a Sherman tank. Closeup of his legs shows they are swollen. Closeup of him smoking a cigarette. A new slate reads:"Cabanatuan Water Facilities." Liberated POWs are using water pumped by hand from a well. The next slate reads: "Cabanatuan Mess Facilities." Closeup of a smiling former POW sitting at a table with chopsticks. Then, many American soldiers are seen gathered together outdoors, as if waiting to enter a mess facility. American soldiers are seen inside a building. Some are writing letters. outside, the liberators mingle with former POWs. One shows a captured Japanese sword. Slate reads: "Hidden Red Cross Supplies." American soldiers unearth large drums and open them, They then partake of edibles like candy that were in some of the boxes. Finally, POWs gather their belongings and begin leaving the prison compound.
Buildings in Ukraine during World War II. An aerial view of the city. Buildings in the area. Exterior of a church. People are walking. Vehicles pass on a street. Buildings, houses, and trees in Kiev, Ukraine. Exterior of the buildings. A woman and a man talk outside the destroyed Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery (Lavrska St, 15, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01015) in Kiev, Ukraine. The woman holds a camera. Rubble on the ground. Damaged walls and structure of the church.
Soon after World War 1, a tugboat leads two ships through narrow open water channel in frozen Russian bay. Buildings and trees in the far background. View of area covered with snow. Children wearing warm clothes stand in front of ship on which is written: 'Margus Newark USA'. An American flag flutters on the flag pole of the ship. The children pose for photograph. A cinematographer hand cranks his movie camera on a city street. Other men stand with him. Buildings along the sides of snow covered street.
Russian people going about their routine activities in Petrograd, Russia, immediately following World War One. People walk on the snow covered sidewalks. The city looks metropolitan, with offices and shops. A horse-drawn sled moves on the street. Women perform heavy labor shoveling snow.
Imperial German Army troops marching into the middle of Berlin, to maintain order, as crowds of civilians mill about, watching them. German populace going about ordinary daily affairs, as the troops bivouack on the city streets. Soldiers on a street corner, eating a meal from a field kitchen set up on the sidewalk. The carriage wheels of an artillery field piece is seen on the sidewalk,in the background, along with the Imperial military flag. In another scene, soldiers sit and rest, idly, on the sidewalk of a boulevard. Their arms are stacked, and some are trying to nap. In the background, a crowd has gathered to listen to a speaker (unseen). A monument and statue stands in center of the scene. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Teams of horses transport German 21cm morsers (heavy siege morters) along a road leading toward the front during World War 1. Gunners walk along beside them. Battery of the mortars being set up in a field by some houses near Mechelen (Malines) Belgium. The gun crews load and fire their mortars. Supplies are brought by horse-drawn wagon. Officers, soldiers, and some medical corpsmen (with red crosses on their sleeves) stand nearby as the battery of mortars fires. . (Note: The church shown, beginning TC: 1:28 is reportedly St. Joseph's, of the St. Joseph-Coloma parish on the southern outskirts of Mechelen/Malines, a city midway between Brussels and Antwerp. The church survived the war and still stands in 2014, although it is also reportedly in a bad state of repair.)
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