Tent caterpillars ravage farms and forest land in Ontario, Canada. The caterpillars invade forest land, roads, walls of summer cottages and houses. A man removes caterpillars.
Opening scene shows a number of bridges destroyed by retreating German forces on the Eastern front during World War 2. Momentary view of Soviet infantry wading through water in a swamp. Soviet army engineers Driving pilings from a pontoon bridge across a river. Soviet Marshal Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky, accompanied by a Major General and other staff officers, cross a bridge being reconstructed. A steam locomotive pulls a long train of flat cars carrying Soviet T-34 tanks. A soldier stands near a moving train of tank cars on a railroad. Trees overhead hide the view from above. Glimpse of several camouflage screens. View from moving train passing under camouflage in a forest. Fuel pipelines are seen in the forest. Workers pass hoses to men on tank cars who fill them. Soviet army tank trucks drive out of the area. Momentary view of Soviet trucks passing over a low bridge. T-34 tanks moving through woods. An ISU-152 self-propelled gun in the woods. Army trucks moving across a bridge. Soviet tanks and self-propelled guns maneuvering in a wooded area. Soldier tells driver of ISU-152 to stop his self-propelled gun. Armor moving through woods. More views of trucks on bridges and armor moving through wooded areas.
Soviet officers, under cover of camouflage netting, look through binoculars, during World War 2. Soldiers remove foliage camouflage from T-34 tanks hidden in a forest. A T-34 moving out of the forest shedding some foliage as it proceeds. The tank climbing a hill. A group of BT tanks moving across a field while under fire. Smoke rising all around from shells bursting. Infantry running , under shell fire. Marshal Georgy Zhukov and staff looking skyward from bunker under camouflage netting. Wide view of infantry charging across a field with shells exploding all around. Marshal Zhukov speaking on field telephone. Soviet soldiers hurriedly removing foliage camouflage from amphibious trucks (American Lend Lease DUKWs). Closeup of soldiers riding in one. Many are seen in various views as they proceed toward a river and plunge into the water. Closeup of two DUKWs underway. filled with armed soldiers. A woman soldier drives one of the amphibious vehicles. A soldier in one, uncoils wire from a large spool, as the vehicle runs in the water. Wide view of the DUKWs heading across the wide river. Then German Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers attack the amphibious vehicles. View upward to a formation of them peeling off and diving toward the Soviet amphibious vehicles. Bombs bursting all over the river. On the river shore, batteries of Soviet antiaircraft guns fire at the German planes. Soviet soldiers rush ashore after reaching the opposite river bank, as attacking German planes fly overhead. Gun camera views from a Soviet aircraft engaging a German plane in a dogfight. Another view of Soviet soldiers leaving their amphibious vehicles. Two are burning at the shoreline. More views of German Ju-87s diving. Soviet aircraft gun camera view of German airplane being hit by its gunfire and exploding. Another view of Marshal Zhukov observing the battle front. A piece of the downed German airplane falls into the river..
As film begins, heavily camouflaged German Panther tanks (Panzerkampfwagen V Panther) are seen moving along a dirt road in Normandy during World War 2. Next, German infantry walk along a road next to forests and behind a Stug IV assault gun. A stone marker on the ground, at rear of a parked Panther tank, points to Beauquay 5 Km and Aunay 7Km. A German soldier lying prone on side of road firing an M42 machine gun. Another soldier lying prone behind him. Parked Stug IV with gun pointed to right. Some infantry gather behind artillery firing from heavily camouflaged positions. An officer with headphones communicates to gun crews. Shells bursting in the distance. A battery of rocket launchers (Nebelwerfers) begins firing. Closeup of soldier activating remote fire control box. White smoke rising in distance. Infantry moving forward toward area of white smoke. German soldiers examine a dead American soldier lying next to a knocked out Sherman tank. Closeup of large shell hole in side of the tank. German infantryman walks past a destroyed U.S. Army tank. A German soldier exploring inside the turret of a half overturned American tank. A formation of German soldiers at a field decoration ceremony. Soldiers receiving the iron cross award. They exchange hand salutes and handshakes afterwards. Next, Oberleutnant Franz Ludwig Chef 2. Batterie / Sturmgeschutz - Abteilung 1346 and Commander Stug III (Sd. Kfz. 1542/1) is seen showing approval of a soldier who mans a Stug III Ausf G, with numerous white rings painted on its gun barrel (indicating victories in combat). (Franz Ludwig is wearing the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, awarded on June 24, 1944 for success against British tanks in combat at the forest of Bovent east of the River Orne, Normandy.) Closeups of Franz Ludwig. View of him briefing several soldiers as they stand in front of barrel-striped StuG III. (Note: Franz Ludwig died in combat on August 14, 1944.)
United States President Franklin Roosevelt in meeting with lawmakers during the Great Depression. View of forest. A tree being felled. A Civilian Conservation Corps employee in tree after a part of it was felled. Logs being transported by train over long trestle bridge. Logs roll down to river. Civilian Conservation Corps employee surveys forest with binoculars.
Soviet tanks and troops moving up on the Bryansk front during World War 2. A Soviet tank (likely an SU-122 Samokhodnaya Ustanovka 122 mm self propelled Howitzer) rolls on forested road of the Bryansk front. Soviet tank gun with a photo of Soviet premier Joseph Stalin posted on below cannon. Young Soviet generals, including General Markian Popov, Commander of the Bryansk Front. A tank parked in a forest, partially camoflaged. Soviet officers give signals for tanks and artillery to fire. Tanks and batteries of howitzers firing at invading German forces on the Bryansk front. Fighter planes strafing at targets below. A Soviet tank accelerates speed, knocking over trees. Soviet tanks move while firing. From the trenches, Soviet soldiers charge into the battlefield. Rockets fired from artillery. Soviet soldiers, wearing U.S. helmets and firing automatic rifles obtained via lend-lease. Soviet infantry shouting as they charge from trenches.