Women and a child look at a window display showing two men by a National Crest. "RF" is written on the crest. German soldiers of the 10th and 42nd Divisions leave the city, as inhabitants watch. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Formations of Mounted French Cavalry and artillery, with horse-drawn field pieces, race across a field in France, during World War 1.
Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini's speaks to a crowd during his declaration of war against the British and French in World War II. The crowd assembled in front of the National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II in Rome, Italy to hear Mussolini's declaration of war. Benito Mussolini speaks from the balcony of Venice Palace. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt makes a speech on Italian perfidy when Italy attacks helpless France. The Italian Army in action during the North African Campaign of World War II. An Italian staff officer on a hill watches a battle. A long line of Italian mountain howitzers fire. An Italian officer looks through binoculars. A radio officer transmits a message. Italian Savoia Marchetti airplane in flight. The airplane drops bombs. An officer looks through binoculars. Two gun crews fire, The shells hit the earth and explode.
Opening scene shows view U.S. soldier atop a tank advancing along a waterway, behind a truck filled with infantry, during the Korean War. A civilian car caught in a flood. An American tank with 3rd Division infantrymen on edge of a flooded area. A civilian vehicle abandoned nearby. Narrator notes that Chinese forces were suffering defeats. Third Division infantry accompanied by armor, advancing in fields. Riflemen firing their weapons at an abandoned train and a building. Tanks advancing with infantry. Third division receives orders to anchor western end of the Iron Triangle in plan to contain Communist forces therein. American Junior officers discuss this with soldiers.
A large group of German infantry marching toward the front in France, during World War 1. Some horse-drawn supply wagons move along with them. Horses pulling wagons with heavy machine guns on them. Others pulling artillery pieces, caissons, and supply wagons. German troops resting on side of hill pose for the camera. Their arms are stacked. Troops stopped for a meal break. Change of scene shows German troops and supplies moving through a war-torn French village. View of destroyed buildings in the village. German infantry marching briskly along a road.
Elements of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division defending Fire Support Base Ripcord in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, in the last major battle of the Vietnam War. View from Base Ripcord toward wooded hills from which the North Vietnamese 324B Division is laying siege. It is extremely windy causing canvas covers to flap. The camera is focused on a hilltop where enemy positions are located. Bombs explode there, dropped by U.S.aircraft (unseen). At times large clouds of white smoke rise from the site.
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