View from German front lines, as their artillery bombards Allied positions in World War 1. As shells begin to strike, some Allied soldiers are seen silhouetted against the sky, in the background, as they leave their trenches for safer positions. A battery of German 21-cm Mörser guns. Closeup of one firing. American soldiers firing a heavy artillery piece. An Allied camp with soldiers, horses and mules. Their gunners are firing a French 75 artillery piece. Scene shifts back to the German lines, where German soldiers in a bunker are firing at rapidly advancing Allied troops, spread across a wide field. German soldiers firing an Austro-Hungarian Schwartzlose M.07/12 machine gun. Allied troops running across the field of view. Two German soldiers in a trench, watch as several other German soldiers retreat back through brush and wire,towards their trench, and fall to Allied gunfire before they can reach safety. Scene goes black and then shifts to German infantry climbing out of a deep trench and running forward, over downed barbed wire, up a small hill, and moving along a zig-zag trench. Next, a German infantryman is seen lying down as he probes to cut through barbed wire in a mass of Allied obstacles. Other German soldiers jump up and throw hand grenades over the barriers. The German infantrymen then advance through the barriers. Scene shifts to German soldiers stringing wire for field communications. A German soldier speaking on a field telephone
Vietnam Navy (VNN) sailors sit on armored troop carrier (ATC's) turret wave during Vietnam War. Bow ramp of ATC lowered at the riverbank. Republic of Vietnam (RVN) marines board ATC at riverbank. Assault craft underway in spread formation. Assault boat underway, fires at the river bank with machine guns. Flamethrowers fired from assault boat at enemy positions on the river bank. RVN marines disembark from ATC into jungle. RVN marines fire M-16 rifles. Radioman on the phone. Heavy jungle in the background.
Japanese battleships and aircraft carriers including Kaga (ahead) and Zuikaku (trailing to port) underway in the Pacific Ocean towards Pearl Harbor. Japanese planes line up on aircraft carrier. Japanese pilots briefed. Japanese pilots run for their planes, board and take off from carrier. Two Nakajima B5N (Kate) Dive bombers taking off, in succession, from aircraft carrier deck. A Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" taking off. A formation, of B5N aircraft , in flight, carrying torpedoes underneath. View from Japanese attacking airplanes as they bomb the Naval Air Station on Ford Island. Heavy black smoke rising from the ground. Next bombers attack the capital ships on Battleship Row. Burning U.S. battleships. Still photographs annotated (in Japanese) point to the various ships targeted, including the USS California, USS Arizona, USS Maryland, USS Utah, and USS West Virginia.
View of several groups of people in homes, industry and office, talking about newspapers in United States reporting that Ford plans to build a million cars. Henry and Edsel Ford with a group of Ford executives at a dining table discuss plans. View of plants, production lines and processes. Purchasing department. Purchasing policies explained and views of wide variety of materials and their sources shown. (We see Albert M. Wibel who led purchasing) View of the River Rouge Plant, production lines, assembly lines and foundry interior.
Opening scene shows American troops in the far distance, moving across open terrain in France during World War I. Some are on a road closer to the camera position. Next, an American unit, with horses and wagons, is seen pausing to reorganize its gear and supplies. View, again, of the American troops in the far distance, with smoke rising from a shell strike near them. More views of shells striking and white smoke spreading low across the terrain. Troops on horeseback and in wagons, coming from the shelled area along the road below the camera position. Multiple shell bursts striking closer to the camera. Suddenly, American troops with their wagons begin to move the opposite direction along the road (towards the area being shelled). One shell strikes right on the road, and other nearby. Scene shifts to group of American soldiers firing a Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun.
Soldiers of the U.S. 34th Infantry Division, 442nd Infantry Regiment (comprising soldiers of Japanese ancestry) march single file along a dirt road in Italy, during the Rome-Arno campaign of World War 2. The road is tree-lined and several hay stacks and a large building are seen close to the road. Three of the soldiers take up positions in deep grass. One is armed with a Thompson M1A1 Submachine Gun, and another holds a heavier weapon. The troops take a break in shade of the trees along the road. Closeup of one soldier. Several others converse in a group. One soldier "hits the dirt" in a roadside ditch and then crawls while hidden and fires across the road. He jumps back into deeper foliage.
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