At start of film, Allied forces are digging in after retreating from counterattacks by German forces in Tunis, during World War 2.. Rains create mud everywhere. A Lockheed P-38 fighter plane parked in foreground. Ground crews use shovels to free nose wheel of a B-24 Liberator bomber with engines running. A truck tows a C-47 transport plane from mud. Army trucks travel over road inundated by running streams. Soldiers standing in a jeep submerged in water. M2 tanks stuck in mud. Airmen huddled around an outdoor fire. P-38 fighter aircraft parked in the background. Soldiers eating around an outdoor fire. Animated map shows Allied battle lines stabilized in Algerian mountains, while German forces occupy the plains in Tunisia. German artillery batteries firing. British troops sheltering in damaged building. Allied wounded being transported atop, as well as inside a field ambulance. Interior of a transport plane configured for evacuation of wounded on litters. U.S. airmen including a woman in leather flying jacket, presumably an Army flight nurse, tend to the wounded aboard the medical evacuation flight. Wounded being transferred from an airplane to an ambulance. British patrols moving through the night. Heavy artillery firing. British soldiers silhouetted at dawn. They return carrying a wounded comrade on a litter. The British soldiers ("Tommies.") trying to clean mud from themselves and their weapons before heading out on patrols again at dusk. Allied soldiers moving on mules in a long line to obtain needed food and supplies. More views of the interminable mud. A British Hawker Hunter fighter plane taking off. A formation of Hawker Hurricanes peeling off to engage German aircraft. Closeup of one rolling over. A German Heinkel 111 bomber being attacked and trailing smoke. Pilot pressing gun firing button in cockpit and a German Dornier Do 17 bomber hit as British fighter plane passes it in cloud of black smoke. The German plane diving to crash in a fireball on the ground. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers taking off and flying in formation. Formation of American B-17 bombers in flight. The American planes dropping bombs on Italy, Sardinia, and Sicily. Gunners in the bombers firing machine guns at attacking German fighter planes as their bombs keep dropping. Back on land in Algeria, mud still halted any Allied advance. Animated map showing both Allied and German forces building up on their respective sides of the front. Supply lines illustrated all the way back to factories in the United States and Britain. Allied war plants making bombers and munitions. Allied Soldiers assembling Army vehicles at a port. Lockheed lightning fighters being rolled out of a factory. Sign reading "Railroad Equipment Assembly Plant No. 1." Complete trains from locomotives to freight cars being completely assembled, loaded with freight and sent on their way. A formation of P-38 aircraft equipped with long range fuel tanks being ferried in flight from Brazil. It is led by a B-17 flying fortress bomber providing navigation. British Spitfire and Hawker Hunter airplanes heading to the front are seen taking off from an airfield in Gibraltar. A caterpillar tractor moving earth for a new road at the front. Trucks dropping materials for the road bed as soldiers with shovels smooth them on the surface. Soldiers installing Mardsen Matting pierced steel planking for an airfield surface as C-47 transport planes operate on the field. Crates of food supplies being unloaded at a port. War materiel stored in a large yard at a port.
The Schneider Cup Race for the fastest seaplane in Baltimore, Maryland. A Curtiss R3C-2 (US Air Service) at the race and U.S. airmen stand around the plane. U.S. Army Air Service Lieutenant James H. Doolittle in the cockpit. Airmen push the plane in water. Gloster Napier III seaplane of England is being pushed into the water. Maachi Flying Boat of Italy in the water. Seaplanes in flight. The race is won by Curtiss R3C-2 (US Air Service). Lt. James H. Doolittle leaves the R3C-1 and is being congratulated by Mrs. Doolittle and the Chief of U.S. Army Air Service Major General Mason M. Patrick.
Animated map of Elba near Italy. Bombardment in night during the liberation of Islands of Elba. Ships in sea. Soldiers and ships at harbor. Smoke coming out. French troops landing. Soldiers advancing toward island. Soldiers taking injured ones on stretcher. Soldiers resting. Scene of city. (World War II period).
A Yugoslav soldier guarding. Marshal Josip Broz Tito, leader of the Yugoslav Partisans, with first Allied war correspondents to reach his headquarters in an undisclosed hiding location in Yugoslavia during World War II. Civilian people (mostly women and children) on roads in town of Drvar, which changed hands six times during fighting between Axis forces and Partisans. A horse pulled wagon; People with their cattle. Yugoslavian children sitting. Women cutting up silk from Allied supply parachutes, for use in creating bandages for Partisan soldiers. Group of women soldiers and men soldiers of Partisan forces, many of whom were students before the war. Partisan soldiers marching on roads and scenes of large columns of Partisan soldiers drilling and training in Italy for the war effort. Close-up views of faces of Partisan soldiers, both men and women. Marshal Tito standing.
United States President Dwight D Eisenhower and Clare Booth Luce on occasion of her appointment as United States Ambassador to Italy. They pose for photographers at the White House (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, United States) in Washington DC.
French parade escorting the representatives of various participating nations to the meeting hall to hold discussions for the Treaty of Versailles soon after the end of World War 1. Premier Orlando of Italy, David Lloyd George the UK Prime Minister, Georges Clemenceau of France, French PrimeMinister Raymond Poincare. Generals of various armed forces moving to the treaty hall.
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