The Royal Canadian Air Force pilots train at Camp Borden in Ontario, Canada. RCAF pilots rush towards and board all-metal fuselage NA-64 Yale training aircraft at Camp Borden. The aircraft engines have already been started by ground crews, to save the time of manual starting. The aircraft take off for a mock attack. The aircraft in formations. They make interception attacks on approaching Avro Ansons. Explosions during the mock bombing raid. Simulated dog fights. the aircraft fly low during the fight. Pilots in the cockpits. The aircraft return to the Camp after the exercise.
Members of the Permanent Joint Board of Defense (PJBD), a U.S.-Canada Joint Defense Board, meeting in Victoria, British Columbia early during World War 2. Officials come out of a building. Officers review troops, together with the first chairman of the PJBD, New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Canadian honor guard lined up as La Guardia and Candian officers review them. Soldiers march.
Allied aircraft practice aerial bombing in Canada during World War II. U.S. Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortresses in flight as they bombard the ground and water targets during a mock run. Royal Canadian Air Force NA-64 Yale trainers scramble to intercept a formation of Avro Ansons making a mock attack on Camp Borden. The close-up shots show pilots getting into Northrop A-17A Nomad attack bombers. The Yales fly in formation and practice mock dogfighting.
United States diplomat James H.R. Cromwell and his wife, billionaire heiress Doris Duke, visit Ottawa, Ontario. James R Cromwell, newly appointed 6th United States Ambassador to Canada is greeted by Prime Minister MacKenzie King as he takes over his duties. Doris Duke stands next to her husband. Dignitaries pose for photographs.
View from conning tower of surfaced German submarine (U-boat) underway in the North Atlantic, during World War 2. Crew scans horizon and see Allied ships. They alert their captain, who comes on deck to confirm their finding of targets off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Animated sequence shows how U-Boat maneuvers. The U-boat teletypes information to its headquarters where German Admiral Karl Doenitz, Commander of the U-boat fleet, is seen with his staff. His charts show area of encounter, between Labrador and Greenland. Doenitz staff wires instructions to the U-boat. View of radio operators and morse code messaging. Views of crew at duty stations inside the submarine. Two U-boats proceeding at high speed on the surface. They are shown in animated sequence. Smoke from burning Allied ship on the horizon. The U-boats come under fire. Shells burst nearby in water. View inside U-boat as it crash dives. Dishes and other items slide and fall inside the U-boat. Animated sequence shows several U-boats moving relative to the convoy. Views of crew poised silently inside submerged sub. Sound of Allied destroyer propellers overhead and explosion of depth charges. Water sprays into U-boat as depth charge causes damage. View on deck of surfaced submarine. U-boat pack circling the convoy. View inside submerged U-boat torpedoing a ship. Inside engine room of boat. Animation shows most ships in convoy being sunk and faster warships trying to escape. Torpedoes being loaded and fired. Explosions from ships hit by torpedoes. Surfaced U-boat firing its deck gun at night. Oil burning on water surface.
Machine power in Canada and Germany in World War 2. Canadian Industry workers walk into a war production plant punching time cards as they enter. Men welding. Steel worker checking heat of hot steel with temperature-reading glasses. Workers in Canadian factory prepare machinery for war. 20th April 1939: Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany reviews German army in parade on his 50th birthday (Narrator incorrectly states the year as 1938, but Hitler's 50th birthday was in 1939 and these images are from the 1939 parade). Heavy breakthrough tanks roll by, followed by Army division assault tanks. Motorized troops march followed by Infantry and then parachute troops. Stuka Dive bombers fly overhead with Berlin Victory Column (Siegessäule) in the foreground. Hitler and others watch the flight.