Opening slate cites location as A-83 (Denain-Prouvy Airdrome, France). Aircrew members step from back of an open crew transport truck and walk to their parked Martin B-26 Marauder aircraft, of the U.S. Army Air Forces 323rd Bombardment Group. The entire side fuselage of the aircraft is covered with painted bombs indicating the many missions it had completed, thus far, during World War 2. Crew members place their gear on the ground in front of the aircraft as a Staff Sergeant (Maintenance Chief) brings the plane's Form 1 (Flight Report and Maintenance Record) for the pilot to review and sign. (This segment is repeated twice for the camera.) Closeup of the pilot discussing the aircraft status with an enlisted man. Meanwhile other crew members stand around. One crew member lights the Tech Sergeant's cigarette. Closeup of an officer crew member, with Marsden Matting on ground in background. Closeup of pilot annotating and signing the aircraft Form 1. Next, the pilot distributes mail to members of the crew. An airman brings a pet dog to one of the crew who plays with it. Pilot takes a final drag on a cigarette and rubs it out on a bomb sitting nearby. (Sequence is repeated twice.) Glimpse of trash caught in pierced steel planking (Marsden matting) on the ground. Next scene shows pilot speaking from cockpit window to Sergeant on the ground. View of pilot and copilot settling into their seats in the cockpit. They don their radio headsets.
Lieutenant General Ben Lear, Major General Manton S Eddy and other officers exit the Merkers Mines in Germany. Major General Eddy dusts off his shoes. The men drive to another location among the industrial warehouses of the mines. They enter a warehouse. Views of piles of gold in bags labeled "Reichsbank" as well as boxes of currency and suitcases.
German civilians watch the arrival of United States Army 4th Division Jeeps and vehicles in Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany during World War II. Civilians tearing down roadblock. German civilian men and boys form in a line and pass rocks from roadblock down the line (like a bucket brigade), piling them at side of the road. German boy smiles. One German man smokes a pipe. U.S. Army Jeeps and an M4 tractor towing 155mm gun past the roadblock and through the village streets. German civilians clearing the road for United States Army.
147th Armored Signal Company of 7th Armored Division U.S. Army string wire along road from an M3 half-track in Delitzsch, Saxony, Germany during World War II. Soldiers stringing wire on the roadside from the moving half-track. The soldiers trail behind the half-track. A soldier grabs wire and climbs a local telephone post. A soldier from the ground lets go of the string before looking up, with a German boy behind him. Soldier adjusts wire on top of the telephone pole.
147th Armored Signal Company of 7th Armored Division troops utilize local telephone poles to string wires in in Delitzsch, Saxony, Germany during World War II. The soldiers string wire as they follow a half-track vehicle moving slowly on the road. Young German boys watch the American soldier climb up a local telephone pole. A woman watches the soldier from a window in the background. The soldier strings wires on top of the telephone pole. Cable spool turning as a soldier pulls out wire. The driver of the half-tracked vehicle sitting behind the wheel.
Arnstadt Concentration Camp in Germany immediately after World War II. German villagers are forced by Allied troops to remove Polish and Russian dead bodies from graves. Scattered dead bodies on a field after exhuming them.
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