German invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939. German troops cross bridge. German artillery fires. German Ju 87 Stuka bomber aircraft in flight. Polish antiaircraft gunners on rooftop. street scenes in Warsaw. Poles run for cover in air raid. German Ju 88 aircraft bombing Warsaw. German soldier throwing hand grenade. Polish man driving team of horses flees bombing. Woman with new born baby. Polish victims of bombing laid out on ground. Americans and British citizens listening to radio broadcasts about the invasion. Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in London. Prime Minister Chamberlain at his desk. City of Westminster and 10 Downing street with Bobbie on guard. British men building a Anderson shelter (bomb shelter) and covering it with dirt. British civilians being fitted with gas masks. Barrage balloons aloft. Newly recruited and mobilized British troops marching on a street in England with children on bicycles riding next to them.
Film opens showing Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, seated in a carriage outside a building covered with scaffolding. He is wearing a fur-collared great coat and a plumed hat. Several flags are decorated poles behind the carriage. His uncle, King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, steps into the carriage. British King Edward VI is wearing an overcoat and top hat. As Edward VI settles into his seat, an attendant cover both men with a carriage robe. As the carriage pulls away, an honor guard in formation at attention is seen in the background. The carriage carrying the Kaiser and the King is seen ahead of another one in which a woman is riding, accompanied by a man in top hat and a military officer in uniform. Local spectators stand at the side of road and on hills overlooking the roadway. A third carriage, drawn by a pair of white horses, carries a woman accompanied by a man in a top hat and a military officer in an elaborate plumed hat. A fourth carriage follows with a military officer and two statesmen in top hats. Film ends as horses pulling another carriage.
Army unit takes winter training in Burlington, Vermont. Annual maneuvers of the 7th Field Artillery and the 3rd Cavalry. Army unit on trick riding by ace horsemen. Army van and motorcars in the field. Army van cross bridge. Unit bombards by and artillery and bomb explodes. Army unit in the field. Army unit bombards by machine guns.
Exterior of a United Nations theater in San Francisco, with movie theater marquee indicating its use exclusively for pass holders attending the United Nations Conference on International Organization. Inside the Delegates of United Nations conference gather during the 2nd week of the conference to watch footage of the German surrender at Reims, signed by General Alfred Jodl. Projectionist and movie projector in booth of theater are shown. View of men and women in movie theater watching movie, including an elevated side view of people watching the movie, and views of the theater screen and movie playing, with backs of heads of people in foreground. Delegates talking and attend meeting in San Francisco, California as they continue work leading toward defining the UN Charter and founding the United Nations organization. Footage from the San Francisco Conference vote, chaired by Anthony Eden of Great Britain, approving the Charter of the United Nations on June 26, 1945
Towing of Phoenix units across English Channel for D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. Phoenix units (Mulberry Harbor) and barges alongside them with tugs. Royal Navy officers aboard a ship look at Phoenix units. Soldiers stand on side of units. Royal Navy Commander Kit Kat with binoculars. Men on a tugboat play accordion and rest. Men and dog mascot on deck. Formation of fight planes pass overhead. British Captain Edward Ellsberg and other officer aboard the tugboat. Tugboat moored to Phoenix unit by men.
Medical units of U.S. military units in Iwo Jima, Japan during the Battle of Iwo Jima, World War II. A marine points out the location of the medical units on a map using his hands and a pencil. He locates the medical units on the map of Iwo Jima while holding small cards giving division and units of evacuation hospitals. The cards read: 'Division Hospital 5th Marine Division', '1st Corps Evacuation Hospital'. A pencil points to the map and the coastal waters of Iwo Jima.
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