Highlights the military career of U.S. General Dwight D Eisenhower from 1945 to 1952. Depicts notable World War II scenes and events starting on D-Day as Allied Forces invade France. Allied planes drop bombs on the enemy positions. Allied troops in Higgins boats land on the beaches of Normandy France. U.S. tanks move forward. Allied soldiers advance towards Saint Lo. Battle in St Lo area. General Patton Forces move forward. French troops and the soldiers of the U.S. 5th Corps march through Paris. The civilians cheer. Allied soldiers move towards the German border fighting on their way. Battle of the Bulge - when the Germans turned counter offensive. The bridge at Remagen on the river Rhine. Allied troops cross the bridge. Allied troops on the offensive, west of the Rhine. The enemy surrenders. Rubble on the streets. General Eisenhower with the troops. Military officers sign documents of German surrender on May 7 1945 in Reims at SHAEF headquarters. Eisenhower makes a speech at the end of the war. Eisenhower, in Paris, waves at the people from an open carriage. People welcome him in his homeland with a ticker tape parade in New York City. Eisenhower waves at the people gathered at the side of the streets from an open car of a motorcade. Eisenhower swears in as the 1st post war Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. He visited troops in various parts of the world. He salutes and moves towards a car with his wife as he leaves active military life. Pictures of Eisenhower as he becomes the president of the Columbia University. He reviews the troops as he becomes the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Eisenhower on European soil. He enters a car. He assumes supreme command of the land, the sea and the air force. Against the threat from the USSR he prepares the European Armies. Soldiers enter into a train. He reviews troops. General Eisenhower and General Matthew Ridgway salute. He enters into a plane with his wife. Painting of Eisenhower being sworn in as President of the United States. Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, two boys leaving the Library.
The Chindits or the Indian 3rd Infantry Division of the British Indian Army in Burma during World War 2. The Chindits move through a jungle. Chindits with a pack train climb up a hill. Soldiers carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher. Another wounded helped into a plane. The wounded are evacuated by Stinson L-1 Vigilant.. A Stinson L-5 Sentinel lands. Supplies are brought for Chindits. Soldiers unload supplies from a UC-64 Noorduyn Norseman aircraft and put the boxes on a jeep. The jeep is driven away. Soldiers roll drums near a plane. A tent with supplies. A soldier talks over a radio. Chindits cross a stream in small rubber boats. British Brigadier General Orde Charles Wingate inspects the area. Orde with other officers. One of the officers with a cigarette in his mouth. A plane lands. A plane in flight over a water body. Royal Air Force (R.A.F) pilots fly the plane. Brigadier General Orde with another person in the plane. (First Air Commando aircraft in this film: Stinson L-1, Stinson L-5, UC-64 Norseman, Douglas C-47, P-51A Mustang.)
U.S. Army personnel train at the MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam) Recondo School in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Rear view of a U.S. Army UH-1B Iroquois (Huey) helicopter in flight overhead. A U.S. soldier rappelling down line from UH-1B, he touched down. UH-1B approaching, soldier dangling from rappelling line. Face of man talking on phone to 'copter. Three soldiers in camouflage gear in the jungle. UH- 1B approaching, close to the ground. The chopper on ground, lifts off. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army personnel train at the MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam) Recondo School in Nha Trang, Vietnam. A U.S. Army UH-1B Iroquois (Huey) helicopter on fly-by. U.S. soldiers prepare to enter the chopper. A soldier with an orange piece of cloth in his hands. A U.S. Army Cessna O-1E Bird Dog aircraft high above. A UH-1B flying very low over water and the jungle terrain. Soldiers climbing out of the chopper and move away. They run into the jungle. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army personnel train at the MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam) Recondo School in Nha Trang, Vietnam. U.S. Amry soldiers rappel from a rappelling tower. Student climbs a rope ladder to top of rappelling tower. Other soldiers high up on top of tower. Student come down rappelling line. Student at top of tower going over side. The instructor on the tower edge. Students seated up on tower and others on the ground below. A soldier rappels down a line to the sand below. A student on the edge of tower, ready to come down rappelling line. A soldier ties a line around his waist and legs. Two soldiers climb up a rope ladder to tower as another prepares to come down rappelling line in full battle gear. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army personnel train at the MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam) Recondo School in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Student soldiers being briefed in the jungle on a booby trap. A soldier briefs the students on various types of booby traps in the jungle. Soldiers, partially hidden in jungle growth. A booby trap. Vietnamese soldier instructs students on booby traps. A booby trap being 'tripped'. A soldier uses a bamboo pole to trip the booby trap. Students standing in the dense jungle. (Vietnam War period).
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