CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) in the United States during the Great Depression. Fire control measures taken by CCC shows CCC workers using shovels to dig and build road. Construction equipment in operation. A dump truck loaded with concrete moves along road. Workers construct a bridge. Shows an old house replaced by a new one, as workers work to build a new house. Telephone lines are put up. Men construct a lookout post.
Film depicts the occupations of U.S. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) workers in the United States during the Great Depression. CCC worker answers a phone call. A truck loaded with few workers pulls away. Truck enters into wooded area. Workers fight wildfire in woods. Workers dig soil as fire break.
Scene opens with music playing and a large sign displayed reading: "2:oo AM, Band, Forks of Salmon Fire Camp." (Forks of Salmon is an unincorporated community of Siskiyou County in northern California, USA.) A band (named 2:00 AM) is playing and several people are dancing. Announcer states that the band members lost their home in the (still uncontained) fire, last Monday (August 31, 1987). A firefighter member of a Rocky Mountain team from Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota, wearing yellow shirt and red cap, expresses appreciation for welcome by Californians.
Drummers and fife players in the United States. Reeanactors serving as Revolutionary War costumed drummers and fife player walk. They emerge from woods and walk toward camera position.
Film begins showing two German soldiers in an established log lined firing position at an artillery training facility in Germany during World War 2. One is using a periscopic telescope. Closeup of a soldier hurrying along a log-lined trench toward a communication center. He picks up a field telephone that is next seen ringing and picked up at another communication center manned by several German officers. One takes the phone call. Scene shifts to an artillery crew at a log-lined gun emplacement where they attend to a 10.5cm artillery piece. Closeup of soldier signalling for guns to fire. Shells exploding in the distance. Crew at another gun emplacement hold their ears as their gun fires. Many more views of guns firing and smoke filling the air.
Farmers in the cornfields of a small Ukrainian town. A pit of the 1940 Katyn massacre mass grave found in World War II. Katyn Commission officials arrive to investigate the Katyn massacre. The Greek Orthodox Bishop of Kos inspects the remains of Katyn massacre victims. Exhumed Katyn massacre victims on the ground. Family members of Katyn massacre victims arrive to identify victims onsite. A body is pulled out from the pit. Women searching for the remains of their loved ones. Religious Christian artifacts and personal effects belonging to Katyn massacre victims found on the mass grave.