Countess Von Bernstorff, wife of the German Ambassador to the United States USA Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, is seen with her husband after arriving on the ocean liner ship S.S. Frederik VIII . Two other unidentified men are also seen. They are departing from the USA for Germany during WWI as diplomatic relations between the two countries are severed.
Film begins with map of the Balkan States including labels for Serbia, Crotia, Hungary, Romania. Next, a Junkers 88 bomber aircraft takes off from an airfield and climbs out close to the camera. It flies high between cloud layers above. View from pilot cockpit of the right engine as the aircraft flies above a solid cloud formation below. Rearward view of the aircraft's vertical stabilizer against backdrop of cumulus clouds. Aerial views of some roads, bridges, and rivers in rugged terrain below. View from low in the aircraft, of crewman silhouetted against canopy. A city seen below. Another view from copilot's seat of the right engine running. Final scene shows aerial view of the city of Sophia, capital of Bulgaria, below.
Film begins with a map of the South Eastern part of Europe, including countries of Hungary,Croatia,Serbia, and Romania. Then a German Air Force officer is seen dispatching aircraft to attack Soviet tanks on the Eastern front. Next are views from a cockpit of German Junkers Ju 87 (Stuka dive bombers) in flight. Closeup of a Stuka airplane inflight. It is equipped with a machine guns under its wings. More views from a cockpit of smoke rising from the ground, and then of Ju 87s strafing Soviet tanks. Narrator states that more than 300 Soviet tanks were destroyed. Scene changes to German soldier in a defensive position in Hungary, during the German invasion of that country in March, 1944 (Operation Margarethe). View of explosions in the distance. Brief closeup of a German soldier. German infantry leaving their defensive positions and advancing along a hill crest where they are silhouetted against the light sky. Artillery firing from hidden position near trees. Several scenes of burning buildings. German gun crew holding their ears as they fire a heavy artillery piece. A burning tank.
Three Soviet soldiers standing in position, two of them holding their guns. Soviet soldiers holding their guns at attention. Soviet Union Leader Leonid Brezhnev discussing with Soviet Union officials during the Cold War. An artist impression of portable nuclear warhead installations. A parade in the Moscow Red Square. The camera zooms into Vladimir Lenin’s Mausoleum in the Red Square. Soviet soldiers marching. Soviet tanks rolling through a desert-like field. Helicopters flying over the field. An explosion near tanks. Tanks roll away from the smoke. A Soviet tank fires. Missiles being fired. Soviet Navy ships shooting missiles. A jet fighter aircraft taking off. United States Air Force man speaks to the camera from an Air Force office. A Soviet fighter jet (Yakovlev Yak-38) takes off vertically. A large jet propelled Soviet test sled vehicle taking off. A ballistic missile is fired. Military truck carries a missile. Soviet soldiers adjust a missile. View of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, from the other side of the Moskva River.
Interior of an empty hangar. View of an empty flightline at Dyess Airforce Base. The Commander of the United States 4018th Combat Crew Training Squadron is interviewed. A B-1B Bomber takes off from a runway. Aerial view of a B-1B Bomber flying over a rugged terrain en route to Dyess Airforce Base, Abilene, Texas. The Commander talks about his experience with the transfer of the B-1B to Dyess Airforce Base, noting that they are "starting from scratch."
View of Pittsburgh and Gulf Tower ( 707 Grant Street Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA) Minimalist office buildings in United States. A street with modern high-rise buildings. Rats sniff, scurry and squeak inside cages. View of rat scurrying inside crowded cage.
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