Ship's C.O. with a U.S. Navy Captain, come out on the deck. A British Merchant Marine Captain talks with the U.S. Navy Captain (Navy Captain has a sub. insignia over his breast pocket). U.S. Navy officer smokes a pipe on the deck. Two junior U.S. Navy officers on the deck. U.S. Navy Commander on weather deck. Two British crewmen with a U.S. Navy officer, look out over the sea. Rocket-type launcher in a tub, above weather deck. Sign reads 'Stand Well Clear, When Klaxon Sounds'. Rocket launchers on ship. One of the gun mounts fire in the background. Crew on weather deck, near fantail area. Wake of the ship in the background. Crew fires 4'' gun on stern of the ship. Gun crew on gun, breech opened. Crew works around rear of the gun. Gun fires. Small group of weather deck. U.S.A. officer, U.S.N. officer and a ship's officer talk. Weather deck of the ship and crew walk by in foreground. Personnel look at a plane in flight. (World War II period).
From "He Has Seen War", scenes of badly disfigured dead bodies of Japanese and American soldiers killed on islands in the Pacific, during World War 2. Corpses of U.S. Marines on a beach. Soldiers dig out dead bodies from mud. Body of U.S. soldier, in mud, being fingerprinted for identification. American dead lying in a field, each with a white covering. Bodies kept under a white cover on a ship. A cemetery of dead soldiers. American dead, each draped in an American flag, being buried at sea. Exhausted and wounded soldiers walk out of a Landing Craft Vehicle. Group of tired U.S. Army soldiers look at camera with blank, exhausted, saddened faces. Sad and depressed war struck civilians. U.S. soldier lifts body of little girl from under rubble and debris. U.S. Army soldier seated beside a grieving civilian family. A dead boy lies between them. They sadly cover his body. Wounded U.S. soldier on stretcher cries out in pain. Soldiers walking in long lines to or from battle. Faces of war-hardened U.S. Soldiers and Marines. Narrator describes the nature of what these soldiers have seen and that they will be changed by their experiences.
Animated map depicts Allied and polish troops advancing toward Falaise, and American forces advancing toward Argentan, France, during World War 2. German forces stringing communications wire in the battle area. Allied forces setting up heavy field artillery. British Typhoon aircraft being armed and taking off. U.S. Army Air Forces Martin Marauder B-26 aircraft flying low overhead. U.S. and British soldiers in fox holes waiting with weapons at the ready. Close-up of African-American soldier's face. Suddenly, all artillery begins firing. A U.S. P-38 strafing and a P-47 aircraft dropping a bomb. U.S. artillery gun with "comment-Charlie" written on its barrel. Formation of British Avro 679 Manchester bombers in D-Day stripes. Allied pilot at controls in cockpit of bomber. Formation of U.S. Martin B-26 bombers in flight. Pilot in cockpit. Formation of British Hawker Typhoon aircraft. They peel off and two are seen firing rockets. American artillerymen firing heavy guns. British infantry pinned down on a roadside and firing mortars from foxholes. American troops firing mortars. German troops running to surrender. German soldiers surrendering under a white flag. Allied gun camera footage of a vehicle being strafed on a road. Several U.S. P-51 fighter aircraft with striped wing invasion paint roaring overhead. More surrendering German soldiers running forward. A U.S. B-26 bomber on bomb run with view of bombardier inside. Smoke and explosion scenes present throughout the footage.
Scenes from the Battle of the Bulge, and siege of Bastogne during World War Two. Large numbers of United States Army Air Force C-47B Skytrain transport planes drop parachute supplies for troops at Bastogne, Belgium. Ruins of the town of Bastogne. A street littered with dead bodies and rubble. U.S. troops advancing into the town of Haguenau on the border with Germany, and further into Germany, itself. American MPs (Military Police) search civilians and check identity cards and check U.S. soldiers in military vehicles to guard against Germans in American uniforms. U.S. M4 Sherman tanks move ahead on the front. Artillery being fired. Troops engage in street fighting. Group of Alsatian women rejoice as they are being released from a prison, where they had been held by Germans. U.S. troops advance through a wooded area. U.S. Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes speaks about the sacrifices of U.S. troops who are fighting and dying for their country and appeals to Americans, safe at home, to work for the war effort.
Supreme Allied Commander, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower sits for group portrait with other U.S. military leaders, three days following the end of World War Two, in Europe. The group shown is: Front row: Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson — Ninth U.S. Army; Gen. George S. Patton Jr. — Third U.S. Army; Gen. Carl A. Spaatz — U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe; Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower — Supreme Allied Commander; Gen. Omar N. Bradley — 12th Army Group; Gen. Courtney H. Hodges — First U.S. Army; Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow — Fifteenth U.S. Army. Rear row: Brig. Gen. Ralph F. Stearley — IX Tactical Air Command; Lt. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg — Ninth Air Force; Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell “Beetle” Smith — SHAEF Chief of Staff; Maj. Gen. Otto P. Weyland — XIX Tactical Air Command; Brig. Gen. Richard E. Nugent — XXIX Tactical Air Command. A soldier stands with a horse sent as a gift, to General Bradley, from Soviet Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev. The horse blanket under the saddle bears a white star. Generals Hodges and Patton examine the horse. General Patton looks in its mouth. General Bradley and General Eisenhower walk around the horse and discuss it.
German counter attack in Battle of the Bulge, in world War 2. U.S. Army Sherman tank crews load artillery shells and fire from wooded positions. U.S. artillery crews load shells and fire heavy guns under camouflage nets. Scene changes to German forces: German infantry advancing past knocked out U.S. artillery piece and Sherman tank. A Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer rolls by behind the soldiers and the wreckage of tanks from recent battle. German Panzer V "Panther" tank advances, with several soldiers riding on top, followed by a Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer with a few German soldiers in and on top of it. Grille Ausf. M self-propelled artillery gun fires. German infantry and trucks with German soldiers enter a village. British RAF Hawker Typhoon aircraft dive and fire rockets at German ground targets. U.S. forces fire artillery and regroup in a forest. U.S. troops move through water and mud in a town. U.S. Army soldiers carry wounded on stretchers. British troops escort German prisoners of war in a town. U.S. Army trucks move through deep water flooding the main street of a small town. An American soldier places his foot on edge of a bin and water pours out of his boot. American soldiers take a chow break to eat.
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