World War I draft dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll arrives at the New York Harbor in New York. He is seized by military officials as he ends his 20 year exile in Germany. A steamer underway. Bergdoll with his wife and child.
U.S. Army Sergeant York passes away in the United States on September 2, 1964. Scenes from the life of Sergeant York. Alvin York seen flashing the 'V' for victory sign. York in the front yard of his home. Newspaper headline reads, 'War with Germany.' World War I newly drafted men in civilian clothing marching along with tags pinned to their civilian clothes. World War 1 new recruits undergoing physical examination as they enter the U.S. Army. Soldiers standing in formation learning to drill. Closeup of front of artillery piece as it fires. Trench fighting against the enemy on a World War I battlefield. A soldier hurls an explosive toward no man's land. Soldiers rushing out of trenches going "over the top" to charge the enemy. Sergeant York in uniform during WWI. Later in life, Sergeant York is seen seated in a car with his wife as photographers scramble to take photos. Sergeant York at the White House with his family. York receives a citation from the Gold Star Mothers Club and then gives a short speech.
Private Snafu in the U.S. Army during World War II. Animation shows supply of food and other things to soldiers. A bull and a cow get married. They enter a room. Nazi Germany and the Japan declare war at that time. Guns loaded on freight cars passing on railroads. A ship underway at sea. Periscopes of submarines emerging out of water. The bull aboard a ship and then a boat. It travels by a truck, a dog sled and then a camel. A snow covered area. A truck passing on a bridge. The bridge explodes. U.S. airplanes in flight overhead. Food and other supplies are dropped from the airplanes. Private Snafu seated on his bed in a barrack. A chow call for the soldiers. Private Snafu takes a large quantity of food. He sits near a tree and eats the food. He wastes some of the food and throws it in a dustbin.
The German attack on the Soviet Union during World War II. An animation map depicting the German advance in the Soviet Union. The President of Germany Adolf Hitler discusses with other officers. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin addresses the soldiers. A tank advances. Fire rises as a bomb explodes. The Soviet soldiers attack through crumbling walls and factories. The soldiers fire from the window of a house. The soldiers run on a staircase. The soldiers fire from a damaged building. The soldiers advance. The soldiers push an artillery. A damaged building and a fountain in front. The French, German and British soldiers on the battle field.
A war production worker in a tire manufacturing plant during World War 2 is seen handling a very large rubber tire. Tires are stacked as high as the ceiling in a warehouse. Closeup of countless artillery shells standing side by side with their noses pointing upward. Small arms cartridges spilling from a hopper. Rolls of ammunition being packed into steel boxes by women in a factory. Two army officers watch an M3 Army half track leaving a factory. Lower sections of M7 Priest Howitzer Motor Carriages built on M3 Lee medium tank chassis, are seen leaving the American Locomotive Company factory on a railroad. Their turrets have not yet been installed. One of them is marked as the 50 thousandth manufactured at that facility. M2 medium tanks leaving a factory. M24 Chaffee tanks driving out of a factory in 1944. M10 tank destroyers (3-inch Gun Motor Carriages M10) driving in a parking field. A field full of many M4 Sherman tanks. New jeeps driving out of a factory. A yard filled with parked jeeps. New B-17 bombers being towed out of a Boeing factory. One of them has serial number 44-6519. (Assigned to the 602nd Bomb Squadron, 602nd Bomb Group at Northampstead, Hertfordshire England, It was downed by antiaircraft flak fire over Nienberge, NW of Munster,Germany on 28 October, 1944.) Engines moving on an overhead crane in a factory. Wooden power boats under construction. A huge stack of pipes in an outdoor storage yard. Heavy containers being placed on wooden shipping pallets by fork lifts. Anti-aircraft guns being transported on a railroad train pushed by a steam locomotive. Numerous 105mm covered howitzers lined up with barrels crossing one another. Rows of parked Sherman tanks. Column of parked army field ambulances. A yard filled with parked army vehicles. Crane at work in an industrial plant yard filled with pipes and building materials. Petroleum workers rotating valves on oil pipelines. Men placing fueling pipes into open railroad tank cars. A rail yard fulled with tank cars. Another rail yard with numerous tracks full of freight cars and steam locomotives. A crane moving 55 gallon drums in a petroleum storage yard.
United States Army Air Corps exercises in Sunnyvale, California. Airship or blimp TC-13 taken into hangar and disassembly begins on it (before it's transfer to the U.S. Navy). Man on a ladder. Army soldiers near a net. Men attach helium gas hose into airship to retrieve and store its helium. Narrator notes that the helium gas is valuable and potentially wanted by Germany for its Zeppelin program. Exteriors of the helium storage room. The helium bottles from which dirigible is filled. Airship during dirigible in hanger.
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