Opens with "back the attack" 5th War Loan fundraising message of World War 2. Film title "Target Berlin" seen along with sound and images of impact of bombardment. Scenes from an aircraft manufacturing plant in Canada. A man seen in office over a telephone conversation getting news to build the bombers. Canadian men and women war production workers working in the plant talk about the manufacturing of the Lancaster Bomber. Designers,engineers and officers engage in discussion about the blueprints and drawings of the aircraft for production. Workers, engineers, and technicians manufacturing and assembling various parts of the aircraft in Victory Aircraft Limited, an aircraft production company. "KB-700" painted on the fuselage of the nearly completed aircraft.
Nuremberg trials in Nuremberg Germany. Nazi war leaders with earphones sit in the prisoner's dock. Voice of Justice William Norman Birkket is heard in background accounting historical events in the second half of the 1930s as Nazi power grew. View of prisoner's dock, prosecutors and judges sitting in tribunal. Justice Birkket speaks on issues like the Violation of defense law by Hitler, German economy for war, rebuilding of German Armed forces, violations of the Treaty of Versailles, and construction of new submarine arms.
Christening of New Great German Aircraft in presence of Cabinet Members in Berlin, Germany. Nazi leader Herman Wilhelm Goering officiates the launching of a German aircraft in presence of Cabinet members. He removes the cover from the plane, bottle smashed on plane, name on plane revealed "von Hindenburg". Paul von Hindenburg and other cabinet members standing at airfield.
U.S. 9th Army Air Force aerial views of B-25 bombers dropping bombs over Pratica di Mare airfield. Several bomber aircraft flying over the airfield. Views of bombs dropping and impact on targets. Tail section of an aircraft visible. The airfield contained new 5-motor German bombers. (World War II period).
A motorcycle policemen leads a parade of new (1926 models) Ford motor vehicles, on a race track. A long line of Ford cars, trucks, and buses follow slowly on the race track. A man in one of the first vehicles is speaking toward the the camera and spectators, with a large megaphone.
U.S. Coast Guard sailors in England along with women soldiers in uniform, during liberty ashore. They play a game of lawn bowling and the look at swans in a lake. Scenes of sailors loading boxes of rations onto ships. Several soldiers lie, chat, read books and walk on the deck area of landing crafts. An officer looks through a telescope mounted on the ship towards the carrier ships heading towards the beach. Troops loading LCVP crafts and being ferried out to waiting transports. LCI crafts loaded with Infantry soldiers, engineers, and medical corpsmen waiting to move out. Actor dramatization of troops hearing the news that the real invasion is to begin. (World War II period).
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