Long introduction with story (written in Japanese) accompanied by music. View of sea at sunrise. Large gun barrels on Japanese battleship, at sea during World War 2. Imperial seal of Japan on bow of the ship. Muzzle of gun barrel. Japanese flag flies on mast of the battleship.
Wake of Japanese battleship as it starts to get underway, during World War 2. Large anchor chain being pulled up through hawse pipe. Seamen wash the chain with brush and water. Windlass turning with anchor chain. Fleet of Japanese warships underway. Submarine Lifeline in foreground. Two Japanese officers on bridge. View of ship's bow and gun barrels.
Routine activities aboard a Japanese battleship during World War II. Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) officer looks through binoculars. Another battleship in the background. Imperial Japanese Navy sailor on deck of ship releases weather balloon. Another sailor looks through a telescope. Japanese sailor looks at a timepiece and another sailor annotate a navigation log. A sailor plots ship's position using a pair of compasses. Bow of Japanese battleship swept by waves in rough sea. Sailors work on deck in rainy weather. Sailor empties water from the deck into containers. Several cooks put baskets of rice into large boiling pots. Fish placed on net trays and into boiler. Potatoes being washed and thrown into basket from a peeler machine.
Peaceful conditions. View of a large rainbow. View from deck of surfaced submarine underway in a column of warships during World War 2. Crew at controls inside the submarine. Crew taking baths on submarine deck. Japanese crew members in mess hall, eating meal inside submarine. Sunset. A blinker light flashing signals from another ship, in the dark.
View of collaborationist French soldiers from the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism (Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchévisme, or, Légion des volontaires français, or LVF.) The LVF soldiers, made of of right-wing French and French prisoners, are marching through the streets of Versailles, in Vichy France, toward the Versailles Chantiers train station, to begin their trip to the Soviet Union where they will fight together with Germany against Soviet forces in World War 2. To the Germans they were known as Infantry Regiment, or Infanterieregiment 638. Led by a Band, the soldiers march through streets of Versailles and uphill toward the main arched entrance of the Versailles Chantiers station. Civilians line streets to bid farewell, and some women kiss soldiers goodbye. View of black locomotive leading the train. LVF board a train car with chalk inscription on the side "Paris - Moscow, LVF".
German General Erwin Rommel, nicknamed 'Desert Fox' in Tobruk, Libya, Africa during World War 2. Rommel in discussion with officers. A noticeable sore or cut is seen on Rommel's lower right lip. German tanks, armored cars and Infantry advance near Tobruk. German guns firing on battlefield. A group of British soldiers is hit and seen falling to the ground from German fire. German soldiers advance and breach a barbed wire area with motorized infantry and tanks entering into Tobruk. German troops in the city of Tobruk for siege of Tobruk. View from moving German vehicle advancing on streets of Tobruk and passing some groups of British prisoners, some in pith helmets. Aerial view from German airplane of Tobruk coastal areas. Erwin Rommel seated at a table. Rommel is not wearing a hat. Sore still visible on lower lip of Rommel.
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