Steam locomotive of Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad billows steam as it pulls a long freight train along track beside a river. Four railroad men gather around a small utility rail car. They load tools into it and one climbs into it as the other three push it along the track. Downtown street scene in Wellston, Ohio. Several persons walk on sidewalk in front of the Wellston Post Office. Soldiers Monument seen on Broadway Street,in background. A traffic circle with Civil War cannon and cannon balls on display in the center. A family posing on the porch of a home. One of the men wears overalls over his shirt and tie. Painter in overalls stenciling the DT&I logo on a freight car.
People enter a zoo constructed under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois, during the Great Depression. People look at the ducks in a pond and chimpanzees eating ice cream. Men and women painters work to paint a large mural on a theatre stage or band shell. It depicts a Native American Indian Chief in a long white robe.
Children outside their houses and men idle at street corner in Puerto Rico. Beggars on the street as men stand in long queues. Malnourished children at a hospital.
Wildlife in grasslands of Sub Saharan Africa. An elephant walks about in a field amidst bushes. It walks past the bushes towards a grassy field. A herd of elephants bathe in a pond. Elephants immerse themselves in water and relax. They play and bathe in water for long.
Wildlife in grasslands of Sub Saharan Africa. Gazelles amidst bushes in grasslands of Sub Saharan Africa. Different species of gazelles in the grasslands. A herd of gazelles up a hill slope. Gazelles with long horns on a field. A gazelle sit under the shade of a tree. Gazelles seated on a field as some of them move about the field in the grasslands of Africa.
Film starts showing animated map of American forces driving East from France and British forces.including the 53rd Infantry Division, from Belgium toward the Rhein (Rhine) River in Germany. Allied infantry and armor gathering on a street in France. Closeups of some soldiers in berets mingling with American troops. Left shoulder of a soldier with Engineers patch. Another with white cross in white circle. American troops entering Bad Godesburg, where many white flags are displayed. An M4A3 Sherman tank moves along a street. "Adolf Schmitz" written on building in background U.S. infantry and armor moving through the town cautiously subject to lingering sniper fire. Views of signs identifying shops and commercial establishments in the town. U.S. soldiers silhouetted looking out of an upper story of a building where they are firing a machine gun towards a sniper's nest. German soldier surrendering and being searched briefly. A wounded person being carried on a litter by two civilian men, accompanied by a woman wearing a Red Cross armband. Scene shifts to road in countryside, clogged with long line of German prisoners of war being escorted under armed guard. Closeups of some of the prisoners and guards. Views of the Rhein river with many bridges destroyed by retreating German forces. Closeup of an American tank crew in their M4A3 Sherman tank. The Bridge at Remagen, with a sign on it reading: "Cross the Rhine with dry feet courtesy of the 9th ARMD Div." American soldiers guarding the bridge against air attack man an M33 twin mount 50 caliber antiaircraft machine gun. Another gun crew firing an M45 quad mount 50 caliber antiaircraft machine gun at attacking German aircraft attempting to destroy the Remagen bridge. Another antiaircraft gun defending the bridge. View from some distance of bomb bursting near the bridge, raising a geyser of water. Back at the bridge, itself, American infantry and vehicles continue to pour across it. Closeups of some and of soldiers in the vehicles. An M4A3 Sherman tank completing the crossing and moving on the German side of the river. Infantry walking along the roadside.
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