Allied military vehicles being unloaded at Omaha beach in Normandy, France during World War II. United States Army jeeps being unloaded from a Landing Craft Tank at Fox Green beachhead in Normandy, France. An American soldier on the beach as jeeps and other military vehicles are unloaded. A jeep get stranded in high waters and the soldier wades through surf towards the jeep. German prisoners on the beach. One of the injured German prisoners being carried away on a litter. Dead American soldiers on the beach. Wounded prisoners seated on the beach.
Japanese international activities during 1931-1945. Opening scene shows Japanese troops embarking on ships bound for an invasion of Manchuria, in 1931. Officers walking on the dock, amongst the departing troops. Scenes of explosions and destruction. Views of Shanghai during Japanese attacks in 1937. Destroyed buildings. Civilian dead lying in the streets. Japanese soldiers racing along a street in a three wheeled motorcycle vehicle. Change of scene shows Japanese diplomat Yosuke Matsuoka addressing a League of Nations meeting in 1933, after that body adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria. He objects to that action and then leads his delegation in walking out of the meeting. View of Japanese delegates in top hats and bowler hats exiting the building. Scene shifts to Japanese forces firing artillery and machine guns in Manchuria.They wave large Japanese flag victoriously after a battle. The next scene shows Italian forces occupying Ethiopia and raising the flag of the Kingdom of Italy, as Italian troops salute, presenting arms of rifles with fixed bayonets. Axis leaders celebrate the 1940 Tripartite Pact between German, Italy and Japan. The festivities take place in a hall displaying the three nation's flags on the walls. A large number of persons attend including Japan's Prime Minister, General Hideki Tojo, seen with two celebrants. Scene reverts to China with Chinese civilian people trying to escape from invading Japanese forces. The refugees carry their belongings as they flee. Occasional shell burst is seen among advancing Japanese troops as Chinese soldiers put up resistance. Chinese soldiers firing artillery. In the U.S., Japanese envoys Kichisaburō Nomura and Saburō Kurusu are seen walking together into a building and entering a room inside. Next, are views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, with huge plumes of smoke obscuring the bombed U.S. battleships in the harbor. U.S. battleships in line formation in the Pacific during World War 2. Aerial view of U.S. warships moving in parallel. British ships augmenting the U.S. warships. Naval guns firing. U.S. amphibious assaults on Japanese held islands in the Pacific. Prisoners of the Japanese who suffered in the Philippines. General Douglas MacArthur mingling with former prisoners and internees upon his return to Manila in 1944. Aerial views of Iwo Jima. Naval bombardment and amphibious assault of Iwo Jima. Numerous fallen Japanese soldiers. The iconic American flag raising by U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima. View of Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. during the campaign on Okinawa, where he was killed in action. A Soldier being carried on a stretcher. Another throwing a hand grenade. U.S. soldier firing at a Japanese defender who falls out of his bunker. Large numbers of Japanese prisoners of war assembled in a field. Japanese Kamikaze attacking U.S. warships off Okinawa. The sky filled with antiaircraft flak clouds. View of 40mm Bofors antiaircraft cannon firing and a Japanese plane falling and exploding on impact in the ocean.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returns back to India after unsuccessful talks in Britain. Mahatma Gandhi urges for non-violent war against British rule. A ship at harbor. Mahatma Gandhi surrounded by Indian citizens. People walk with him. He addresses the crowd. Crowd cheers. A sign on a building reads 'Central Prison'. People walk into the prisons. Policemen stand near the gate of the prison.
World War II naval bombardment on Bardia, Libya. A British Navy officer aboard a British war ship looks through binoculars. Naval guns are fired. Black smoke rises up. The seaport is bombarded. A large number of prisoners walk. The prisoners are loaded on railroad cars. Prisoners board ships in large number.
Film opens showing animated map of the Finnish Front during World War 2. Two Finnish women are seen search the horizon with binoculars and keeping a log of some kind. Uniformed Finnish men and women ride with supplies on sleighs pulled by tractors. A group of them are seen at an outdoor field kitchen getting a meal. Women take blood from a uniformed Finnish woman volunteer donor. Women lined up in a wooded area are being decorated by a Finnish officer. A large number of Soviet prisoners of war (some showing minor wounds bandaged) is directed up a hill to begin work on defensive positions. Some carry long logs. Closeup of some prisoners passing the camera. Prisoners shoveling sandy soil and carrying building materials.
A concentration camp in Germany after World War II. People in the concentration camp sitting outside a building inside a barbed wire enclosure. Victims lying in bunk beds inside prison barracks buildings. The victims with emaciated legs and heads. A stretcher with a corpse covered with a cloth being lowered into a grave by other prisoners in striped uniforms. Three victims wearing the striped uniforms watching through the barbed wire fence. A dead victim being lowered into a grave. An emaciated dead victim lying on the ground. Prison number tattooed on the arm of an inmate. Emaciated victims being dusted with delousing powder by camp men. An emaciated victim with another inmate in a striped uniform.
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