Highway sign reads M 16, Dunkerque. German Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers fly low and drop bombs. Offshore, a flotilla of warships and civilian ships and boats approaches. British spitfire fighters engage German warplanes. Gun camera footage of dogfights. Allied troops boarding boats while being bombed. Rescued French and British soldiers on decks of ships. View of destruction at the Dunkirk shore. Rescued troops disembarking in England. Prime Minister Winston Churchill reviews group of ordinary British citizens who participated in the evacuation and shakes hands with naval officers. Generals of the French High Command expressing dismay. Map shows battlefront. Parisians getting newspapers and French parents and families evacuate French children South for safety. Women are seen kissing their children goodbye as they load onto buses to be evacuated to safety. Anguished women wave as their children depart. Change of scene to sandbagged French defensive positions in Paris. American intelligence officer, using animated map,describes German sweep of France. Benito Mussolini with son-in-law, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Italian motorcycle troops and infantry enter France. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt condemning the Italian action. Mussolini accompanied by Italian officers, struts along a street as Italian troops watch from sidewalk. He reviews a contingent of youth in uniforms that look like Alpini.
Vice Admiral S.H. Ingersoll stands before speaker's stand and speaks to Vice Admiral W.M. Beakley who sits in his chair at the change of Command ceremony of United states 7th Naval fleet in Yokosuka,Japan. Ingersoll sits in a chair as Beakley speaks into a mike from the speaker's stand. The two officers salute as Marines salute in response on board United states ship Bon Homme Richard.
Vice Admiral S.H. Ingersoll and Vice Admiral W.M. Beakley arrive at speaker's stand on board United states Navy ship Bonn Homme Richard in Yokosuka,Japan for 7th Naval fleet's change of command ceremony. A Naval Captain and Ingersoll speak into the mike. Ingersoll and Beakley converse with each other on bridge of a ship.
Change of command ceremony of United states 7th Naval fleet ship on board Bon Homme Richard in Yokosuka,Japan. Vice Admiral S.H. Ingersoll and W.M. Beakley,the new commander of the fleet, salute along with other officers in background. Officers and civilians in the audience stand at attention. Officers and civilians walk away. 7th fleet band plays on the deck of the ship.
Change of command ceremony of United states 7th Naval fleet ship on board Bon Homme Richard CV-31 in Yokosuka,Japan. Chaplain gives an invocation. Vice Admiral S.H. Ingersoll speaks at the speaker's stand as Vice Admiral W.M. Beakley,the new commander of the fleet, sits in a chair. Audiences include Marines,officers and civilians.
Vice Admiral S.H. Ingersoll and W.M. Beakley converse on board United States 7th Naval fleet ship St. Paul in Yokosuka,Japan. They climb onto the bridge of the ship and continue to talk..
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