Scenes of the town Tucson in Arizona, United States. Old houses and buildings in the town. Late 1930s cars driving on a road in Tucson and parked outside a building. The Mission San Xavier de Bac is shown. The Pima County Courthouse with old cars parked in front. Views of campus buildings at the University of Arizona. Students on the campus of the university. Construction workers building new brick buildings in Tucson. This is constrasted with view of a Mexican worker mixing clay and straw to make Adobe bricks. The man presses the mixture into forms to make large bricks or blocks. Mexican American children sit by the side and watch him work. 1930s era cars drive on the streets of Douglas Arizona. Mexican mariachi street musicians wearing sombreros play guitars and sing. A city parade (possibly in Phoenix) heads down a street with a marching band and men on horses. Women and children watch the parade. A rodeo event in Phoenix is shown with men on bucking broncos and bucking horses.
Allied convoy In North Sea during World War II. Very heavy surf and waves in rough conditions. U.S. Coast Guard cutter Spencer (USCGC Spencer (WPG-36)) picks up survivors from a ship sunk by torpedoes. Small craft along side ship being rescued in heavy seas. In next scene, on April 17, 1943, United States Coast Guard ship Spencer drops depth charges which force Nazi German U-boat U-175 to surface, disabled. U.S. Coast Guard Lifeboat seen approaching the disabled German submarine to assist in rescuing enemy sailors before the submarine sank.
United States Army soldiers guarding a group of German SS prisoners of war who are being held near a village. Cameraman slate indicates location of "Wittring" (presumably Wittring France, just outside the German border, in the Moselle region), but U.S. government record accompanying the film indicates "Wittring, (?) Germany" (sic). A wheel cart is seen on the street. The German prisoners of war have SS markings on their right lapel and also the SS skull insignia on the cap, identifying them most likely as part of the SS-Totenkopfverbände or SS-TV; also called Death's Head units. (Theories on these captured soldiers include: 1) SS-TV units were primarily in charge of administering the Nazi Concentration Camps in World War II. Hinzert Concentration Camp was possibly the closest camp to Wittring. Perhaps these soldiers came from it or another camp; 2) They may have been part of the 3rd SS Panzer Division. Reportedly, whole platoons and elements of the 3rd SS Panzer division were not following orders and were giving up prior to the Budapest and Vienna battles to avoid Soviet captivity, as early as Jan 1945). Prisoners rub their hands to warm them in the cold. Camera shows a close-up view of one of the prisoners, as an American soldier attaches a Prisoner of War identification tag over around the neck of the prisoner.
Wrecked trees, houses, guns and tanks on a field in Marshall Island, Pacific. A dead soldier on the field. Man stands and watches the wreckage on the field. Jeep passes on the street. Damaged United States medium tank and trucks. A man watches a wrecked captured Japanese flag. (World War II period).
United States marine cutting away clothing from another, wounded, motionless, marine, on a stretcher, during the battle of Saipan, in World War 2. The marine is using a large knife to cut back clothing. Blood soaked bandages are visible.
A large crowd gathers at the Lustgarten in Berlin, Germany. Men hold boards and placards in their hands. Trees in Lustgarten (Lustgarten, Unter den Linden 1, 10178 Berlin, Germany). Soldiers marching in Berlin’s Deutsches Stadion, present-day Olympiastadion (Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin, Germany). Men in military uniforms of prior older eras parade with flags of various German states. Spectators watch the event. Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and General Erich Ludendorff lead a procession of German officials, one of whom holds a banner with writing "1.G.I.D."
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