Montage of World War II scenes in rapid succession, including: British flag flying; British civilian men looking through debris and victims of Japanese bombing in China; a German armored car moving rapidly; Heavy artillery pieces firing; German SdKfz 251 half-track armored personnel carrier rushing past the camera; The German Nazi flag flying from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France; German troops marching through the Arc de Triomphe (Arch of Triumph) as they occupy Paris; New York Times newspaper headline reading: "Nazis execute 50 French hostages in Bordeaux!" French Army prisoners of war; British Colonial troops in a labor gang; German Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft in flight; French refugees fleeing advancing German forces; Momentary closeup of ME- Bf-109 firing guns and then climbing away from roadway filled with refugees. Animated illustration showing shadows of German bombers flying towards Britain. Numerous dead civilians, victims of Axis military actions in various parts of the world. The White cliffs of Dover. Formation of German Heinkel HE-111 bombers coming over England. Aerial view from above of numerous German Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers in flight. British Royal Air Force airman ringing alarm bell and RAF pilots scramble; responding by running to their spitfire aircraft, taking off and climbing to intercept German bombers. Closeup of one pilot in his cockpit during dogfight. A formation of three German Ju 87s seen from below. Gun camera glimpse of one being shot down from behind. An aircraft shot down and crashing. German aircraft bombing England at night during Battle of Britain (1940). Point of view shots from inside German aircraft during blitz over Britain, with aerial views of explosions and fires on ground in England. Narrator mentions Coventry as a target. Smoking ruins from German blitzkrieg bombing. Aerial views of areas bombed by German aircraft. British civilians carrying coffins and lowering them into grave sites as they bury victims of Nazi German bombing. Closeup of the shoulder patch worn on uniforms of soldiers in the U.S. Service Forces. Views of war materiel in warehouses and being loaded aboard ships destined to the war zones. American soldiers on a Pacific island. United States Army soldiers engaged at communications centers and using radio and radar antennae. Military equipment and weapons being moved by railroad train. Military supplies being loaded on rail cars and railroad trains running on tracks. U.S. troops on a beachhead following an amphibious landing. A British soldier eating bread. Two American soldiers drinking from cups. Closeup of a military police "MP" armband. Large formation of marching U.S. soldiers. Closeups of soldiers in the field, using radio telephones, cutting through barbed wire, looking out of ship porthole windows, and some simply posing momentarily for the camera. A U.S. Army soldier showing the "V" for victory symbol with his hand.
Soldiers of the U.S. Signal Corps in the European Theater during World War II. Signal Corps cameramen of Army Pictorial Service photograph and film an amphibious landing. The soldiers wade ashore. U.S. soldiers advance on a battlefield, firing rifles. Camera man present. Street fighting on the war front. The wall of a building leans and crashes to the ground as a U.S. Army camera man captures moving image footage on camera. U.S. soldier rips a Nazi German eagle symbol from a building and it crashes to the street. A U.S. Army Air Corps B-17 aircraft in flight , seen from beside and close up from below and beside. View of exterior of Signal Corps Photographic Center building in New York. Men working inside the Signal Corps Photographic Center in the United States. Soldiers at film cutting machines at work, and view of film canisters in storage. The production of films in the center including a segment from "Why We Fight" and one from "The Fighting Men" pictures. Several war related films, and training and orientation films are produced. The foreign version of the films are also made so that they can be seen by other countries. Scene of an American soldier speaking Japanese in a U.S. military created film. Bing Crosby singing "Accentuate the Positive" during a filmed segment for the American G.I. audience at a USO show. Elevated view of war material and equipment stacked in a massive warehouse building, with Signal Corps workers moving about in the building. Men working and placing more equipment in the building. 'MacArthur's Headquarters' written on a wooden shipping crate. Boxes of war materiel being loaded into trucks, railroad train cars, and ships for transport to the war front in World War 2. Views of various kinds of Signal Corps communication equipment, radios, transmitters, cameras, vacuum tubes and other electronic equipment that was innovated during World War II. A moisture-proof switchboard is tested in the field. A U.S. Army Signal Corps soldier holding a phone during the switchboard testing.
A film depicts the training of the Engineer replacement center trainees during World War II. Engineers gather on a field during their training. They are being demonstrated the use of assault boats. Some of the engineers aboard a boat. The boat gets underway. The engineers are being instructed the use of various tools and equipment. They are instructed to erect bridges. Engineers walking on a pontoon bridge.
A submarine training base in the United States. A tower at the training base. Submarines and ships in the harbor. Sailors aboard a submarine. They stand at attention and salute.
United States soldiers in Germany during World War 2. Tanks parked on a field, waiting to advance. A tank driver looks out of a hatch. Tankers and infantry next to a wrecked German artillery train. Smoke rises from the burning train. Graves of German soldiers. The tanks fire at a distant town. A tank moves through a wrecked town. Infantrymen walking. The tanks and the infantrymen moving through the town.
Damage due to avalanches in the Alpine nations of Europe, much in Austria including Bludenz which occurred on January 13, 1954. Several villages are destroyed and many people are killed and injured. U.S. helicopters hovering over the area. Destroyed houses and buildings. The rescue workers working to take out the dead bodies and some survivors from the snow. They shovel the snow. A wrecked train covered with snow on the mountain side. Rotary snowplow on a locomotive used to clear tracks in rescue area. Survivors from train shown rescued 80 hours after event.
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