Aerial view of Chu Lai coastline. Two boats lie on sandy beach. Aerial view of Billets and shacks on beach. View of the coastline. Ocean waves hit the beach. View inside the helicopter. Helicopter Pilot wears a helmet. View of river delta seen from the helicopter.
Two German men at a cafe reminisce about former times. Views of those prewar days (before World War I) in Germany. German Workers pack goods at a factory. Elevated view of German people walking at platforms of a busy railway station and people sit in train. Woman stands and approaches lake beach water, she removes her robe to swim; children play and swim at a beach. Many families cooking on portable stoves near the beach shore. Two women cook and taste food. Boy eats food and view of his family enjoying a meal together. People sit on a wagon. Brief return to restaurant scene with the two men. Then scene of female performer as she blindfolds a male trapeze artists who then performs in a German circus, leaping from a platform in a trapeze act, releasing from the trapeze while blindfolded, and successfully catching the hands of another trapeze artist. Scene switches to postwar era (after World War 1), where the emphasis is on Girls! Numerous scenes of various female dancer groups performing on stage, with high kicks and precision dancing in Follies-type productions. In next scene, outdoors, German soldiers are seen on parade through the Brandenburg Gate. Numerous outdoor scenes of Germans enjoying themselves in Berlin. Many Berlin landmarks and statues shown in the time before World War 2. Scenes include: the Berlin Cathedral; The Poseidon Statue next to Alexander Platz; Brandenburg Gate; Unter den Linden; Lustgarten; a tour bus flying an American flag; and the winged Berlin Victory column rising up, as seen from a moving vehicle.
Allied occupation forces after the fall of Tunis, Tunisia, in World War 2. View from shore of large Allied transport ships side by side at a beach. Views of beach front fortifications. A pair of coastal defense guns on a hill overlooking a beach. Several views of Allied Landing craft infantry, Large, LCI(L), in a harbor.
Documentary titled 'To the Shores of Iwo Jima' about the American attack on Iwo Jima. Map shows location of Iwo Jima Island near Japan, Japanese defense lines and the American front lines. U.S. Navy forces attack on the island. Planes from carriers take off to drop bombs at Japanese targets on the island. Scenes of heavy shelling on enemy's beach installations. U.S. Navy forces head towards the beach in the initial assault. Troops debark from landing craft onto the beach. Soldiers pinned down due to heavy enemy fire. Navy corpsmen carry wounded soldiers on litters.
Shows the American attack on Iwo Jima. U.S. tanks roll on the beach to provide cover fire to troops pinned down due to heavy enemy fire. Troops advance from yellow beach. Japanese attack on U.S. troops from their fortified gun positions at green beach. Troops contact the commands ship for reinforcements. Carrier planes come to the aid and bomb enemy installations over the island. Support ships fire heavily over enemy installations. Americans cease fire on conquering Mount Suribachi. Iconic shot of five U.S. marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman as they raise the American Flag atop Mount Suribachi. Navy and coast guards debark from landing crafts at the shore. Troops advance. Wounded soldiers being aided. (World War II period).
On the North African Invasion by the Allied forces. Boat crew member of Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) in the foreground and other amphibious crafts in the background approach toward beachhead. Smoke rises on distant hills due to shell hits. Light tank loads off LCT (Landing Craft Tank) onto beach. Troops disembark from a LCVP. LCVP and LCT on beach head. Troops disembark and advance down the beach. (World War II period).
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