Following bold attacks by German forces against English Channel ports in France, French General Ferdinand Foch orders a counter attack by all Allied armies. The film then depicts a montage of war scenes, growing shorter and in quicker succession as the film proceeds. Allied soldiers advancing across open battlefields on a broad front during counter offensive following German attacks against English Channel ports in France, during World War 1. Soldiers drop and take cover as shells explode in open field areas. Dead horses next to a destroyed wagon. Soldier running across open fields. German soldiers firing Maschinengewehr (Schwarzlose) M. 7 (Schwarzlose MG) machine gun. Allied gunners firing French 75 field artillery pieces. Allied soldiers carrying wounded on stretcher. Allied soldiers lifting and carrying shells from stacks of shells along their lines. A shell explosion close to the camera. German soldiers taking cover at upper edge of a bomb crater. One is struck and rolls backward. Allied soldiers wearing ponchos and firing machine gun. Soldiers with an artillery shell. German soldier falling back down embankment. Dead German soldier lying beside a knocked-out German machine gun. Ground level shot from trench or ditch of Allied soldiers emerging from trenches "over the top" and running on battlefield. Explosions on battlefield. Allied soldiers emerge from underground bunker with wood framed door. French soldiers marching on battlefield beside destroyed trees. French soldiers going over the top from trenches to advance in battle. Destroyed trees all around. Capture German soldiers marching along a trench. French soldiers carrying wounded soldier on litter. Trench with numerous bodies of dead soldiers. French soldiers hastily wheeling a wounded soldier on a cart. Numerous scenes of wounded French soldiers, some walking and bandaged. Flamethrowers being used on battlefield areas. Lines of multiple flamethrowers in use. French soldiers marching in a town. Some are supporting other soldiers and some hold rags to faces (possible gas attack victims). Schneider CA1 French tank moving in underbrush. French soldiers load and fire artillery. Heavy siege guns and howitzers being fired including an Italian siege howitzer Mortaio da 210/8. Dead German soldier on ground. French soldiers digging trench beside bodies of fallen soldiers. Shell being loaded in artillery gun. Explosions in valley as seen from high ridge overlooking battlefield. Heavily bandaged wounded soldier being carried by French soldiers and medics. Group of German prisoners; some bandaged. French carrying more wounded on stretchers. A French railway gun (Canon de 340 mm) on railway mounting is fired. Allied cavalry soldiers on horseback galloping across streams, some towing empty caissons that bounce going over embankments at high speed. Allied soldiers in trench. Large group of Allied soldiers taking cover in large bomb crater and then charging up and over the top through smoke screen.
News headlines in the New York Times. A scrolling news marquee at the building of New York Times: "Read The New York Times", "Stalin Blames Britain U.S. And France For Failure To Solve Berlin Dispute-- Charges West Follows Warmongering Policy But Discounts Possibility Of New World Conflict" and "Stalin Flays Former British Prime Minister Churchill As 'Chief Instigator of War' ". Pedestrians and motor traffic in foreground. A scrolling news marquee: " Stalin Blames Britain U.S. And European Revival", "Western Diplomat Describe Stalin's Attack On Allied Powers As Propaganda Statement" and "Britain U.S. And France Halt Heavy Flow Of Western Marks Out Of Berlin". Two men and a couple look at the marquee. Views of a man looking at the marquee.
Representatives of United Nations countries who are fighting in Korean War gather for a dedication ceremony at the UN Memorial Park cemetery in Pusan, South Korea. Flags of various countries include Great Britain, France, and South Korea. United Nations flag . Military Officers and officials stand at the cemetery. Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway, of the United States leads the activities. Flag of United Nations being hoisted. Troops and officers stand at attention. Flowers placed on graves. Flag of India, Pakistan, France, United Nations and various countries.
Several American school children, including one in a Boy Scouts of America uniform, recite the pledge of allegiance during World War 2. Scene broadens to encompass a school yard filled with elementary school students reciting the pledge in front of an American flag flying high on a pole. As scene fades images appear of battleships firing guns; an F4F airplane taking off from an aircraft carrier; landing craft approaching a beach; American soldiers fighting with small arms and a flame thrower, in jungles of New Guinea; a U.S. gun crew firing heavy artillery; and a U.S. P-38 aircraft on a rainy runway, spraying water as it takes off, in the Aleutian Islands. U.S. troops firing automatic weapons on a Pacific Island. A B-17 pilot wearing an oxygen mask in his cockpit, flying in a formation creating contrails at high altitude over Germany. Waist gunner firing at an attacking German fighter plane that explodes in air. U.S. troops in jeeps moving over jungle road. U.S. ski troops on snow in Iceland heading downhill toward their tents in the snow. American troops during amphibious landing in the Philippines. U.S. troops aboard army halftracks on desert in Iran. American paratroopers dropping from C-47 aircraft over France. U.S. soldiers marching through two large gates with cadre of Chinese soldiers in China. American troops fighting in Italy and firing a 155mm howitzer. U.S. infantry following a sherman tank over a war-torn landscape with shells bursting nearby. Crowded, busy street scenes of traffic and pedestrians in Manhattan, New York City, and Chicago, Illinois. Army tanks being manufactured by war production workers in a Detroit war production plant or factory. A Los Angeles shipyard filled with workers at shift change. Closeups of individual American soldiers in combat helmets. U.S. troops descending rope nets from transport ships to board landing craft, and approaching the beaches of Normandy, France, under fire, on D-day, June 6, 1944. Views of the Statue of Liberty, including closeups.
Adolf Hitler consulting with Panzer Generals Paul von Kleist and Heinz Guderian, during World War 2. Animated map showing German invasions of Denmark, Norway,Holland,and Belgium. People hear on radio about the German Blitzkrieg. Many views of families and gathering of men, women, and children listening to various portable radios, console radios, and car radios to hear the news of the attacks. Masses of refugees moving slowly in France and Belgium, and being strafed by German Ju 87 Stuka aircraft. Americans listening to news of German war successes. British forces being attacked by German Ju 87 Stuka bombers as they evacuate at Dunkirk, France.
U.S. troops and Coast Guardsmen assemble for religious service on a pier in the port of Weymouth, England, three days before the invasion of Normandy, France, in World War 2. A Roman Catholic Military Chaplain conducts the mass. Landing Craft Infantry LCI(L) numbers 89 and 93 are tied up at the dock in the background. (These craft are part of LCI(L) Floltilla 10, operated by the United States Coast Guard.) A small dog stands at the feet of the Chaplain, as he conducts the mass. The service finishes as the Chaplain administers the sacrament of Holy Communion (Eucharist) to the troops. In concluding scenes, U.S. Landing Craft Infantry are seen underway from England, to join Assault Groups for the invasion of Normandy, France. One of the craft is seen to be Number 87 and another number 495.
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