Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini's speaks to a crowd during his declaration of war against the British and French in World War II. The crowd assembled in front of the National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II in Rome, Italy to hear Mussolini's declaration of war. Benito Mussolini speaks from the balcony of Venice Palace. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt makes a speech criticizing Italy following its declaration of war on France and the United Kingdom. President Roosevelt is delivering a commencement address to a crowd in Memorial Gymnasium at the University of Virginia on June 10, 1940. Roosevelt says, "On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor." Views of the Italian Army in action during the North African Campaign of World War II. An Italian staff officer on a hill watches a battle. A long line of Italian mountain howitzers fire. An Italian officer looks through binoculars. A radio officer transmits a message. Italian Savoia Marchetti airplane in flight. The airplane drops bombs. An officer looks through binoculars. Two gun crews fire, The shells hit the earth and explode.
The city of Madrid in Spain after the Spanish Civil War comes to an end. Views of bomb damaged and ruined buildings in Madrid. Captured rifles piled up. Two women carry away bricks in a basket during clean-up work. Civilians having their food. Spanish Head of State, Regent of the Kingdom Francisco Franco waves to crowd. Scene changes completely to Dolores Ibárruri , known more famously as "La Pasionaria" (passion flower) arriving in France,on her way to Russia. She walks with companions after arriving at a train station. Photographers take pictures of her and her companions. They exit the station to the street, where she and some of her companions enter an automobile.
Allied convoy underway in the English Channel for the D-Day landings on Normandy, France during World War II. British sailors on the deck of HMS Belfast (C35). The sailors talk to each other on the deck of the cruiser. The convoy includes LCTs (Landing Craft Tanks), an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry), destroyers and landing crafts. Barrage balloons over the convoy.
Allied convoy underway in the English Channel for the D-Day landings on Normandy, France during World War II. The convoy includes LCTs (Landing Craft Tanks), an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry), destroyers and landing crafts. Barrage balloons overhead. British gun crews on the destroyers.
Allied convoy underway in the English Channel for the D-Day landings on Normandy, France during World War II. British gun crews on destroyers. The convoy includes LCTs (Landing Craft Tanks), LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry), destroyers and landing crafts. Barrage balloons overhead.
At start, film shows crowd (mainly men) gathered on sidewalks in New York City during World War II. Focus shifts to myriad newspapers on a stand, all showing headlines about Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy in Nazi German-occupied France. Men purchase the papers. Glimpse of men moving shoulder to shoulder. The New York Times building at Times Square is seen with latest news being displayed in lights. News messages seen include: "President Roosevelt in Radio talk..." "Rome declares victory at time when Allies invade Europe." "American British and Canadian troops swarm ashore on Northern coast..." American paratroops land behind the Atlantic Wall to deal first invasion blow to Nazi communications." "...The Allies will accept nothing but full victory." View of passengers in a bus reading the Times news as their bus passes the building.
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