Simulation of handling for the launch of an A-4 missile in Peenemunde, Germany during World War 2. The missile is towed around the huge test stand No 5. Bicycles outside a building. Trees in the area. The missile is carried near a beach in front of test stand 5. It is raised for simulated test firing. Men look at the missile.
Activities of U.S. Marines on Tarawa in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Two marines look at a damaged Japanese motorcycle. Natives walk on a street. Captain Louis Hayward and other soldiers guard the natives. The natives move down a road. A jeep moves along the side of the road. Barbed wire barriers off the beach. Japanese coastal defense guns. Damaged Japanese gun emplacement in the foreground.
A war film titled 'Soldiers without guns' depicts the contribution of army messengers during World War II. A U.S. ship convoy underway at sea in the European Theater. Smoke from the stacks of the ships. Soldiers aboard the ships and a landing craft. The soldiers fire guns from battleships. Smoke rises from the firing of the guns. Supplies loaded on the ships. Tanks and trucks advance on a beach. Paratroopers descend on the land. Airplanes fly in formation. A soldier speaks over a radio. The airplanes bombard a target area. Trucks and jeeps advance along a street. Troops fire rifles. Men in a radio room directing them. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated in chairs, discussing. Men study a map and locate areas on the map.
Film opens showing a large well equipped gymnasium in a Japanese school. Some boys are holding onto climbing ropes, watching as several boys run toward the camera, jumping over obstacles. Two of them do somersault vaults over theirs. Next, a large group of boys in meager undershorts and bathing caps run down down the steps of their school behind their teacher, who wears a regular bathing suit. Next, the boys run under a battery of showers to enter a swimming pool. One takes a large beach ball with him. Several closeups follow, of boys and girls standing in front of their school building. Film ends showing very closeup views of an individual boy and girl.
United States Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower and British King George VI in Tunisia, Africa during World War II. British and United States officers fix the British and the American flag on the hood of a car. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, King George VI and U.S. Navy Admiral Cunningham get inside the car and drive off. U.S. sentries stand guard along a road. A huge crowd of soldiers on a beach await British King George VI 's arrival. King George speaks to U.S. soldiers.
Wounded soldiers of the United States 5th Marine Division during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II. Wounded Marines being evacuated toa beach hospital for treatment. Board reads 'Evacuation Station'. Wounded Marines on stretcher being put on amphibious vehicles to be taken to hospital ships.
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