Film opens showing several Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers, of the USAAF 93rd Bombardment Group, taxiing on the airfield at RAF Station Hardwick, in England, during World War 2. Numerous views of United States B-24 Liberator aircraft taking off, landing, and flying in formation over the aerodrome. Various examples of nose art and airplane names are seen. Among these are: a B-24 named 'Shoot Luke'; and another named 'Ball of Fire Junior'. A third B-24 is named 'Heinie Hunter'.
United States fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean's English Channel on D-Day during the invasion of France. Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) underway. A task force in the English Channel includes battleships, destroyers and PT boats. A PT (Patrol Torpedo) boat passes the LCI and an AP (Transport). Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVPs) underway towards beach. Guns fire from the USS Nevada. Smoke rises from the firing and smoke screen. A Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) heads for the beach. (World War II period).
Landing Craft Infantry leaves England for D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Column of United States Landing Craft Infantry underway. Stern and U.S. flag in foreground. Barrage balloons over ships. Landing Ship Tanks and rhino barge underway.
Czech soldiers in Prague, Czechoslovakia near end of World War 2 in Europe. The soldiers sing as they march in the streets. Civilians stand beside a street and watch them. The soldiers carry rifles on their back. A group of liberated United States military and New Zealand military prisoners stand on a bridge.
A United States patrol searches for snipers in Tremensuoli, Italy. The patrol carefully advances through woods and across a field to flank a farmhouse. Soldiers creep across the field and approach the farmhouse. One soldier advances and throws a grenade in the house. It explodes and the patrol dashes in. The patrol in the streets searches for snipers and observes. A grenade explodes. (World War II period).
A United States patrol builds a gun emplacement in Italy. Soldiers put sand into bags to build a sand bag emplacement around a camouflaged 8 inch howitzer. A soldier checks the breech of the gun. They cover the gun with a camouflage net. Soldiers load the gun while an officer gets firing data over a phone. (World War II period).
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