A crowd of civilians in Luxembourg cheer as the Allied forces enter and advance into Luxembourg. Prince Felix arrived with the Allied forces taken on shoulders by the crowd. He waves his hands towards the crowd. (World War II period).
British soldiers fight the German Army to liberate the city of Hertogenbosch in Holland from Nazi occupation during World War II. British soldiers advance into outskirts of burning city with several homes on fire. They help extinguishing fire and rescue an old woman. British Churchill tanks advance in fields firing at Germans. British soldiers walk with captured German soldier prisoner of war near an armored vehicle. Houses set afire by Germans. British soldiers crawl in a trench and walk towards a house and drop down as an attack is launched on them. A wrecked German StuG III assault gun near the house with the corpse of its driver in it.
British soldiers fight the German Army to liberate the city of Hertogenbosch in Holland from Nazi occupation, during World War II. British soldiers carry an assault boat under the cover of fire from a Bren gun (with upper handle removed). They paddle across the canal and take shelter behind the berm on the opposite side. After pausing, they continue to advance over the berm. Closeup of Bren gun firing. Structures are seen in the background. A Sherman tank parked among trees is seen firing a machine gun from its bow mount. Smoke rising behind the canal berm. British troops run past heavy smoke rising in a part of the city. They run across a park toward a bridge. Buildings burning near the canal in the city. View of British infantry across a canal. Dense smoke from fires burning nearby, obscures buildings in background. British infantry sheltering near edge of building in the city. View of several British soldiers in a Bren, or universal tracked carrier, loaded down with all kinds of gear, including a jerry can and other supplies. View of sniper (presumably German sniper) firing from upper window of De Gouden Leeuw restaurant or shop in 's-Hertogenbosch.
British soldiers fight the German Army to liberate the city of Hertogenbosch in Holland from Nazi occupation, during World War II. Line of British tanks (Heavy Infantry Mk IV A22 Churchill tanks) move on road which has a signboard identifying location as "'s-Hertogenbosch." British armoured personnel carriers and tanks entering the town. Dead horses and dead German soldiers lying on ground by the side of road. A British Sherman Firefly tank rolls by, and more are seen parked nearby. A Dutch civilian man carves carcass of a dead horse for food. Corpses of German soldiers lay on ground near an artillery piece. Close-ups of faces of dead German soldiers.
British soldiers fight German Army to liberate the city of Hertogenbosch in Holland from Nazi occupation during World War II. British soldiers throw a torn German flag from damaged church steeple on the ground and stamp upon it. Civilians return to the city after Allied take it over. German prisoners march under guard. Large number of surrendered German soldiers stands in an open ground near a machine gun.
Film beginning shows a line of Indian women carrying large wooden bowls on their heads as they walk past a line of Boeing B-29 Super Fortress bombers parked on an airfield ramp in India during World War 2. A B-29 bomber descends and lands on the airfield runway. Scene shifts to the Boeing factory at Wichita, Kansas, where most of the aircraft were manufactured during World War 2. (They were also made by Bell Aircraft Company in Atlanta (Marietta), Georgia, and by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Omaha, Nebraska.) In the Wichita plant, a large room filled with B-29s under construction is seen. A line of women uses hand power tools to finish aircraft parts. A large section of a B-29, including landing gear and tires, moves by overhead crane to be mated with another section in an assembly operation. Men manually push a landing gear with tires installed, along a floor. Workers walk along underneath an assembled B-29 as it is towed out of the factory. Tail view of a B-29 with engines running. View of man working on a B-29 tail rudder. Wing flaps being lowered in function check. Scene shifts, again, this time to China, where a line of B-29s is seen on a ramp at a secret base. A jeep drives under the left wing of a parked B-29, guarded by an armed Chinese sentry. Chinese laborers work with hand tools to make a ditch to drain water from the airfield ramp. Chinese workers unload and roll 55 gallon drums of gasoline for aircraft fueling. A Chinese name (Ding How!)painted on the fuselage of a B-29. Major General Claire Chennault shakes hands with some of a B-29s crew as they prepare to depart on a bombing mission. A Chinese soldier gives the crew a "thumbs up" sendoff. The B-29 takes off on the mission. a group of airmen sit atop a B-29 to watch the takeoffs. Camera focuses on another takeoff and then shows a B-29 aloft, glinting in sunlight and then cruising above clouds. Glimpse of B-29 flying over snow covered mountains (possibly in Japan).
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