Montage of scenes with soldiers returning to Italy and France at end of World War 1. A large troop ship docked at a port in Italy, carrying returning Italian soldiers. Huge crowd assembled on the wharf. Supplies being unloaded from a ship. A few U.S. soldiers are seen. A field kitchen set up on the wharf and Italian troops being fed. American and Italian flags fly above the wharf shelter roof. Crowds on streets in France. French General Petain enters a car and is given a large bouquet of flowers (which he promptly gives to an officer accompanying him in the front seat of the car). French President Poincare joins Petain in the back seat of the car and they drive away. Scene shifts to the port in Italy, again. Men wave the Italian Naval ensign flag.
Models display designer dresses made of silk at the fall spring fashion parade in Nice, France. Models display dresses made by top designers including Dior, Nina Ricci, and others at the Palais de la Méditerranée (13 Prom. des Anglais, 06000 Nice, France). Various models walk on ramp wearing the designer silk dresses. A man standing with candle holder glares at models on the ramp. Models walk down the stairs of the Palais de la Méditerranée.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt presents an American-made Destroyer Escort ship to France in Washington, United States during World War II. President Roosevelt reaches the navy yard in his open car. The officers salute the President. French Naval officers at the yard ceremony. The President presents the new American-made destroyer escort to the people of France, during the ceremony. The navy sailors on the ship's deck. President Roosevelt gives a speech. The President wishes luck to the French Sengalese. The navy sailors raises their rifles.
American entertainers in Hawaii, United States during World War II. Comedian Bob hope stands with a U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator aircraft in the background. Patty Thomas and singer Frances Langford smile and wave. Bob Hope shakes hands with island commander General Tenney. Italian-American comedian Jerry Colonna smiles. USAAF C-47 Skytrain aircraft in the background. A large number of people gathered around the entertainers. Enlisted men follow the entertainers. Bob Hope gets into a staff car. Frances Langford and Patti Thomas seated in a car as it pulls away.
American entertainers from USO in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands during World War 2. Singer Frances Langford walks on a stage. Bob Hope hands over a microphone to Langford. She sings as music director Tony Romano plays a guitar in the background. Bob Hope and Frances Langford at the microphone. Patty Thomas dances on the stage to entertain U.S. soldiers. Comedian Jerry Colonna speaks into a microphone.
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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