A U.S. Army Air Service De Havilland DH-4 airplane taxis away from a make-shift canvas structure, near a railroad train, in France, during World War 1. Aviators occupy both front and rear cockpits. The airplane displays a tricolor roundel on its fuselage. A machine gun is installed in front and bomb racks (empty) are installed under the lower wing. The airplane takes off from large grass field. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Opening scene shows German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel gesturing as he hosts members of a Japanese military mission and a Turkish military delegation (headed by Colonel General Cemil Cahit Toydemir). At Adolf Hitler's invitation, they are on a tour of the Eastern front and English channel coasts between June 25th and July 7th, 1943, during World War 2. Here, they are seen inspecting German positions and witnessing firepower demonstration on the Russian Front near Kharkov (also Kharkiv) just south of Kursk. They observe a German artillery gun crew as they demonstrate rapid firing of their field piece. Shells explode raising black smoke. Closeup of a senior Japanese military official. Turkish and Japanese visiters board two small open train cars driven by German soldiers on motorcycles adapted for the purpose. Following a pause, the scene shifts to the visiting officers inspecting German armor, including a small armored personnel carrier; a Tiger Tank of Pz.Abt.503; and other armored vehicles. They watch a Tiger tank moving along a muddy berm rotating its turret and 88mm gun as it moves. Another tank races past the camera at high speed, raising clouds of dust. A German gun crew, in a trench, fires an MG 42 heavy machine gun. They look up and camera focuses on formations of German JU 87 Stuka dive bombers flying overhead. Visiting officer peers through a periscopic viewing device, as Large explosion occurs in the field. German, Japanese, and Turkish officers converse as a huge plume of smoke rises in the background, capturing their attention.
Gun fired from a boat. Shell strikes near opposite shore. Wounded Russian White Guards carried on stretchers, being loaded on boats at the beach, for evacuation. A doctor in white coat and medical hat accompanies them. Boats loaded with evacuating White Guards, head for Vladivostok harbor, where they pull up beside a large steamship. American troops lined up on wharf. Large American flag flying from docked American warship. Officers inspect American troops readying for departure. Troops are loaded aboard launch flying American flag, and depart from the wharf. The American warship is seen steaming out of the harbor.
Japanese troops in Vladivostok, during Russian Civil War and World War 1. Opening scene shows Japanese soldiers in a bayonet sparring exercise using wooden rifles and Samurai style protective gear. They engage each other in pairs. Next scene shows Japanese soldiers in front of railroad cars serving as their housing. Some of them are cooking food. View along the rail platform where many Japanese soldiers are walking about. A Japanese soldier is seen inside on of the boxcars, smoking a cigar. Several others are seen inside their boxcar home, where they have a stove to heat it. A soldier stands guard atop war material stacked in low open rail cars. Views of vast rail yards filled with train loads of supplies of all kinds. Smoke issuing from steam locomotives in the distance. Another view of boxcars used as "barracks" for troops. Camera pans over the rail yards.
Czech Legion troops in Vladivostok Siberia, during Russian Civil War and World War I. Opening scene shows a damaged railroad boxcar tilted on its side at a rail yard. Its wheels are broken. Snow and scrap materials have been piled beside it (likely to keep it from collapsing). Czech Legion soldiers appear to be using it as shelter. Change of scene shows American and Czech soldiers at a headquarters where the entrance is flanked by the American and Czech flags. Two women are speaking with the soldiers at the gateway. Closeup of the two women posing with two Czech soldiers and several Americans. Closeup of four American soldiers posing with two Czech Legionnaires, (one all in furs). Czech soldiers offloading supplies from railroad freight cars. Closeup of large boxes labeled with red crosses. Czech military medics loading the Red Cross supplies and blankets onto horse drawn wagons. View from fast moving train of snowy landscape outside the window. white smoke and steam from locomotive (unseen) passes the window. View of a train moving through snow covered landscape.
Allied powers intervention in Siberia during World War I. Czech Legion soldiers assembled in front of a building in Vladivostok. They march past a city gate. Snow on the roads. They stand in formation, for inspection, with their officers in front.