German armored vehicles on French Coast during World War 2 occupation of France. A map shows French Coast in European Theater. Camouflaged German Panther and Tiger I tanks travel on roads near French Coast. Tanks loaded with German soldiers. Artillery is fired. Smoke rises up. Troops walk along the road. German Puma armored car passes along the road. German troops advance through woods and take prisoners.
At start of film, a German Stug III tank destroyer with single crew member is seen in a snowy landscape on the Eastern Front during the winter of 1942 in World War 2. Another Stug III, with large protective side plates installed, is seen sitting in the snow next to a barn. A third one is seen parked in snow with no soldiers present. The scene changes to German infantry in white cold weather parkas, at a battle front. One soldier looks through binoculars. German radio operator seated operating a radio, at a field communications center. Officers review maps and instructions. Infantry begin marching forward through the snow. Some load supplies on a half-track prime mover. Tiger I tanks of s.Pz.Abt.503 (503rd Heavy Tank Battalion) accompany infantry spread widely across flat snow-covered field. A locomotive and train passes nearby. Several dead Soviet soldiers are seen in the snow. Infantrymen capture two soviet soldiers and take them prisoner. A German soldier digs up a heavy box-shaped land mine. A rough posted sign warns of mines. Troops fire field artillery. Several views of destroyed Soviet armor and artillery pieces.
Fall of Berlin, Germany, during Battle of Berlin in World War 2. Russian Army soldiers attack. Russian soldiers fire artillery and run through the streets of Berlin. German civilians are instructed to clean up the streets by the Soviet Army. Rubble on the street. Flames and smoke rise from buildings. Destroyed airplanes are shown in a burning field. A German pilot prisoner. Past events show Hermann Goering and Benito Mussolini greeted by Adolf Hitler. (World War II period).
Opening scene shows view from behind Soviet artillerymen firing a light field piece in the heart of Berlin, Germany. Next, Soviet soldiers are seen scurrying along inside a building hallway. A solitary woman walks slowly along a deserted street. A rocket weapon is fired from a building window causing a cloud of white smoke to billow out over the street. Fires burn in buildings, as soviet soldiers run past them. A woman Soviet soldier tends to the wound of a male comrade as others stand nearby. (At TC:00:32, a Soviet soldier, with his head bandaged, fires a captured German Panzerfaust.) More views of burning buildings. Four Soviet soldiers carry a wounded comrade on a litter. A Soviet soldier enters a burning shop. Another Soviet soldier carrying a PPD SMD submachine gun, pulls a German Soldier from a hole in the sidewalk. The German prisoner lies on the ground and the Soviet soldier does, as well, seeking cover from gunfire. Soviet troops moving into a stairwell of a building. They throw the statue of a Teutonic knight in armor down the stairs. Views of explosions and smoke near the Brandenburg Gate as Soviet troops begin raising a red flag to the left. (From TC: 01:15 to 01:35 is a flashback to , German troops led by a military band, parading through the Brandenburg Gate, watched by German citizens. Momentary closeup of the German band and its leader, followed by a view of the troops marching surrounded by local civilians.) Scene shifts back to fires burning with Brandenburg Gate in background. Soviet troops loading rockets into a multiple launcher. More explosions and smoke. A Soviet M1931 B-4 203 mm heavy tracked howitzer firing point blank in the city. A Soviet field piece being fired. Glimpse of Soviet infantry firing rifles from behind a makeshift barricade.Glimpse of some Soviet tank crewmen. The Reichstag Building in ruins.Troops carrying the red flag climb the building steps and enter the building. Troops raising the red flag on a statue, as others cheer.
A dramatization depicts Japanese psyche and living habits in World War II. Hierarchy of social strata in Japan. Japanese people and their sense of duty. A Japanese woman and her daughter walk along a road. The woman goes to meet her husband who is captured by the enemy and is in prison. The mother dies while traveling on foot. The daughter cries. She fulfills her duty and goes to meet her father. A man helps her and takes her on horseback to meet her father. A man returns home after six years. His wife and son want to meet him, but his father does not permit them. As the father pretends to sleep the wife comes to meet him. The man declares he is going to participate in the war. A matchmaker or 'go-between' asks a girl some questions before the girl gets married. A father scolds his son. The son is well behaved and does not answer back. Japanese boys attack each other on the street.
United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) underway in the Atlantic Ocean. USS Wasp returns POWs (Prisoners Of War) to Naples, Italy after World War II. Italian POWs move through mess lines. Trays being filled with food.
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