View of old French gun. Quonset hut. United States military personnel dig. Boxes secured with lines, attached to block and tackle. Look out post on top of the hill. Harbor Patrol Command Post on top of the mountain. Sign reads 'Restricted Area, Keep Out'.
German Tiger Tank burns on a field in Chartres, France. United States soldiers with guns and tanks on a street. French civilians watch the soldiers. (World War II period).
Captured German prisoners of war walk on road in Chambois, France, guarded by U.S. soldiers during World War 2. Faces of German soldiers as they pass. Dead German soldier lays on side of road as line of prisoners walks by. United States soldiers walk behind Nazi prisoners.
United States Officers seated in a classroom at Donaldson Air Force Base, Greenville. Colonel Harry Hopp enters room and briefs the officers.
Series 'Why We Fight' episode "Prelude to War" depicts the battles during World War II. United States soldiers parade on street lead by a band. Japanese bombing attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. The London Blitz with buildings destroyed and burning. The Eiffel Tower in Paris with Nazi flag flying atop it. German troops marching into Paris, through the Arc de Triomphe. Japanese warplanes bombing shanghai, China, in 1937. Chinese residents running for shelter. Glimpse of German "Schwerer Gustav" 80 cmrailway gun firing during German offensive against Soviet Union in 1941. German forces entering Czechoslovakia in 1938. German mounted troops entering France in 1940. Heavy guns firing. German ships en route to Norway 1940. German Ju-52 aircraft flying low over trees. Montage showing rapid succession of war scenes, including heavy guns firing, smoke rising, explosions, an aircraft shot down and crashing straight down, German armor on the move, German Ju-52 aircraft dropping paratroopers into Holland and one flying over Athens, Greece, with Mount Lykabettus in the background. More of the same with Narrator mentioning Belgium, Albania, Yugoslavia, and Russia (where citizens are seen digging anti-tank trenches and fortifications). Cavalry charging across a field. A German tank rolling forward. A German Dornier Do-17 bomber taking off, and bombs falling.
Aftermath of the Gardelegen Massacre: German civilians dig grave for Nazi atrocity victims in Gardelegen, Germany. Mutilated and burned bodies of one thousand political deportee prisoners, including Russians, Poles and French, in and around a large barn. United States Army Infantry troops view and inspect the bodies, and supervise German civilians being forced to dig mass graves for the victims, who had been transported to the barn from the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp and the Hannover-Stöcken Concentration Camp during World War 2.
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