NATO officers walk through a wooded area, led Alphonse Juin, Chief of Staff, Nato Infantry. General Juin was recently promoted to rank of Marshal of France, and wears corresponding seven-star rank insignia on his uniform. A U.S. Army Piper Cub aircraft takes off from a rough airfield, on which several other aircraft are parked.
Views of NATO forces in various places in Europe. A man sits on a step smoking a cigar. Nearby is a camouflaged tank, that demonstrates movement of its turret and gun. The gunner descends into the tank. Policeman directs tank and other traffic at an intersection. A Chimney Sweep in top hat, smoking a cigarette, stands by his bicycle, next to a NATO machine gun position, at a roadside. He gives a light to one of the soldiers in the gun emplacement. A tank rolls past the emplacement. An American gun crew runs to their heavy artillery gun and prepares it to fire. They demonstrate dry firing the gun. Another American gun crew mans an antiaircraft weapon and demonstrates its mobility.
U.S. Marine artillery battery firing 105mm howitzers. Smoke arises due to the firing. Marine watches through the binoculars. View of buildings being destroyed by artillery bombardment. Montage of artillery, machine guns, troops advancing at end of film. (World War II period).
"The Guilty." Animation depicts person being hanged. View of an angry crowd on a road. People beat war criminals and collaborationists. Mob of Italian partisans in Italy raising dead bodies of Mussolini and others up to hang from their heels in public after their execution. Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and British Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden signing the Moscow Declaration in November, 1943. The declaration is signed to preserve the authority of law in Europe and to ensure fair and orderly trials for war criminals. Next scene shows Allied soldiers at a liberated Concentration Camp near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Military jeeps in the background. Officals tour the concentration camp. Man opens a creamatorium oven, revealing bones of a corpse inside. Pile of dead victims of a concentration camp. Elevated view of a room full of documents that are in review for war trials. Officials search documents to identify war criminal suspects. Nazi officers and officials who commited suicide are shown, including a German admiral, the body of Heinrich Himmler, and the bodies of the Mayor of Leipzig and his wife. War criminals being summoned for the various war crime trials. Scenes from the Belsen Trial in September 1945, held in a Lüneburg gymnasium, to decide the fate of German guards and SS officials from the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. A defendant being brought to trial on a stretcher. Soldiers guard the court room. View of defendants including many women SS-Gefolge members. German Commandant Josef Kramer during his trial, and German doctor Fritz Klein beside him. The court trial underway for the war criminals. Guilty war criminal brought to the gallows to be hanged, black cover placed over his head and he is hanged. View of dead bodies of concentration camp victims. View of a crowd amassed at a hanging execution of several German officers, possibly in the Soviet Union.
A World War 2 amphibious beachhead is seen with numerous ships offshore, and a barrage balloon aloft overhead. USS Landing Ship Medium number 553 is pulled up close to a transport ship from which an army truck is being offloaded. Numerous U.S. troops are seen on the transport deck. Another Landing Ship Medium (number 541) is c.lose to a transport ship. A Benham class destroyer is seen. A Coast Guard Captain smokes a cigarette as he looks out a porthole on his ship. A U.S. wartime supply convoy at sea. An officer sounds an alarm aboard a U.S. Combat Coast Guard Cutter. Crew responds and fires depth charges against a German submarine. The submarine surfaces and the Cutter fires at it using a deck gun. View of oil on the water.
Close-ups of Soviet soldiers aiming their rifles. British soldiers, carrying Enfield rifles, advance in rocky terrain. Allied Colonial troops fighting in jungles. Paratroopers jumping from an airplane. American soldiers following an armored vehicle through heavy foliage, and then running through a street and taking defensive positions during combat in a battle damaged town. An American M3 Lee medium tank (with name “Andy” written on it) firing its heavy gun in the center of a town. Its Shell bursts in a building and blows part of it into the street. The troops continue advancing and walk over a sign on the ground,displaying a swastika. Scenes shift to home fronts of Allied countries, where people are working in machine shops, forges, welding shops, and war plants, fabricating weapons. Final scene shows two American soldiers firing a Browning M1917 water-cooled machine gun.
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