British Royal Engineers troops march to a project site, carrying picks and shovels. Next, they are seen digging a straight ditch following a course laid out by taut string. Sections of pipe are laid on the ground next to them. A large Army truck and an ambulance with red cross markings is seen near a large group of the soldiers. At least one injured is being carried shoulder-high by litter bearers. Several officers appear to be checking plans for the project. As the soldiers mill about, they look up towards the sky, as if noting airplanes above (unseen). The troops continue work on the project, which now appears to involve setting up fortifications. One soldier leaves walking a bicycle. Another view shows the area to be quite rocky, and a large pile of rocks has been used as part of the fortifications. Several ambulatory wounded German prisoners are seen walking toward the rear, as they are passed by a contingent of mounted cavalry headed toward the front (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The French tries traitors in Paris France. A view of Palais De Justice. A women sells newspaper. A man reads the newspaper. Newspaper features French traitors Lafont and Bony. A group of German officers. Axis soldiers are marched through the streets. French civilians jeer at the prisoners. Allied officers restrain the civilians. (World War II period).
Operation Barbarossa - the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. German officers question Soviet prisoners. German chiefs confer. German troops advance to find retreating Soviet Armies. German bombers and fighter aircraft in flight. Aerial views from German aircraft as they strafe Soviet positions. Gun camera footage from German fighter aircraft firing on Soviet positions. Smoke rises after aerial bombing by the Germans. A German aircraft strafes a Russian railroad train. Smoke rises from a wrecked train. View of German Luftwaffe pilot inside cockpit of a light bomber aircraft.
German troops in the European Theater during World War I. German Kaiserine Hermine Reuss talks to medics and German officers in Berlin, Germany before a hospital train leaves for the war front. German units advance past a building towards the western front. Horse drawn carts loaded with supply boxes being pulled along. Allied prisoners march as German soldiers keep guard.
The Russian Campaign of World War II. A German soldier walking in front of a damaged hut in the Soviet Union. Debris in the hut. Smoke rising from shelled Russian positions on a field. Debris scattered on the field. Smoke rising from a burning barn. A soldier looking through binoculars. German infantry and tanks moving on a path between fields. Russian prisoners of war with raised hands moving on a path. German tanks moving beside them. Smoke rising from burning buildings. Debris lying on the side of a path. A soldier on a motorcycle moving on the path.
Sasebo Harbor in Japan after World War II. USS Gloucester in the harbor. Freed American, British and Canadian prisoners in the hangar bay of USS Gloucester. A damaged Japanese submarine in water. A boat underway. Sasebo naval base in the background.
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