Film opens showing American soldiers riding in an open tracked personnel carrier, along a road in France, during World War 2. They pass a burning destroyed German tank at the roadside. A U.S. Army truck full of troops and a jeep follow the personnel carrier. Next dragon's teeth tank traps are seen in the snow. A U.S. M10 tank destroyer and a truck are parked near the dragon's teeth. A gunner atop the M10 fires his M2 Browning heavy machine gun. The M10 continues to move past the dragon's teeth. Infantry are seen accompanied by a whitewashed M4A3(76) Sherman tank. Other troops are settled into positions in the snow beside the narrow road. View from behind advancing troops. Explosions in a hillside as shells strike from an M4A3(105) firing rounds. White smoke rising from phosphorous shells fired into a German village. An M4A3(76) tank firing rounds in the village. Sherman medium tanks moving through rubble and then on a town street. Two M4A3(75) tanks parked side-by-side in the town. Tank commander in one points down the street, as hatch in the nearest one begins to open. U.S. infantry moving through the town accompanied by these tanks. Armored infantry hunker down behind a tank as it passes a church building. Some soldiers scamper down a hill toward village wooden buildings. Two are seen escorting a German prisoner, who collapses and has to be helped to his feet. Three other U.S. soldiers are approached by a surrendering German soldier with his hands in the air. Next American soldiers are seen taking several surrendering German soldiers into custody.
U.S. Army nurses going in and exiting their quarters building on New Guinea during World War 2, Some inside the barracks tend to their personal needs, such as combing their hair. In a personal touch one nurse has two Raggedy Ann dolls and a baby doll on her pillow. Outside, on duty, a nurse takes the temperature of an ambulatory patient. Inside a large tent hospital, nurses tend to patients on cots. A nurse assists a New Guinea native boy on crutches with a bandaged leg. Behind them is a tent labeled "Surgery personnel only. Keep out." View inside the surgery tent, shows a doctor and nurses performing surgery on a wounded soldier. Closeup, as a nurse wipes sweat from the surgeon's brow. Scene shifts to medical personnel transferring patients on litters from a field ambulance to an Air Evacuation C-47 transport plane. View of the C-47 plane taking off. Nurses inside the plane tending patients, some on stacked cots and others on the floor of the plane.View through the C-47 cockpit window of water and a mass of land ahead.
German Air Force engages Soviet ground forces in Hungary during World War 2. Opening scene shows map of Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania. Next, in view from cockpit , a loose formation of German Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers is seen in flight. They bomb and strafe Soviet tanks on the ground. (Narrator states that German aircraft flew thousands of missions destroying more than three hundred Soviet tanks.) German soldiers are seen in trenches in Hungary. Next, are scenes of fires and of German soldiers near a burning Soviet tank.
Crash of Hindenburg Zeppelin (airship) at Naval Air Engineering Station at Lakehurst in New Jersey, United States. Hindenburg Zeppelin (airship) in flight to New Jersey. Hindenburg come in for landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Crew makes preparation for landing on the ground. Landing lines are dropped form the Hindenburg. Hindenburg Zeppelin bursts into flames and falls to earth. Large smoke rises. Firefighters battle the flames. Remains of worlds largest airship. Ruins of Hindenburg after flames have been extinguished. Wreckage of engines of the large Zeppelin. Nose of the Zeppelin.
Crash of Hindenburg Zeppelin (airship) at Naval Air Engineering Station, Lakehurst in New Jersey. Hindenburg coming in for landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Hindenburg bursts into flames and crashes. Remains of worlds largest airship. Firefighters battle the flames. Smoke cloud rises due to crash. Ruins of Hindenburg after flames have been extinguished. Wreckage of engines of the large Zeppelin.
Crash of Hindenburg Zeppelin (airship) at Naval Air Engineering Station, Lakehurst in New Jersey. Ruins of Hindenburg airship after flames have been extinguished. Wreckage of engines of the large Zeppelin. Officers inspects the crashed Hindenburg. German ambassador is interviewed about the crash. German ambassador. Injured persons are put into an ambulance. Ambulances being driven to a hospital. Survivors of the Hindenburg crash. Fourteen year old cabin boy Werner Franz, who is youngest survivor of the crash. Witnesses take oath before testifying about the crash.
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