An execution place in Paris, France during World War II. French Forces of Interior (FFI) men watch coffins dug out from the ground. Four coffins on the ground. A coffin shop. Unused coffins on a shelf at the shop. Half made coffins on the shop floor. A wall of a torture chamber. FFI men and prisoners walk along the wall of the torture chamber. Interior of the torture chamber. Stakes in the chamber. A rosary on a stake in the torture chamber.
German troops at the Lithuanian Front in winter, during World War II. Soldiers fire rifles and other guns at a battlefield. Allied aircraft in flight overhead. The soldiers load and fire anti aircraft guns. Smoke from firing and bombardment. Soldiers fire rifles from a trench. A soldier looks through binoculars. An Allied aircraft is shot down by German antiaircraft fire. A soldier talks over a field phone. German Soldiers come out of a dugout, wearing warm clothing on a snow covered field. German StuG III assault guns and tank moving along a road. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment . Tiger tanks of s.Pz.Abt.502 open fire. Barbed wire entanglements. German troops take up new positions in snowy battlefield. Soviet prisoners of war pose for camera.
Scenes on and around Omaha Beach after it had been secured, following the Allied D-Day amphibious invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Several U.S. soldiers move along the beach in a DUKW amphibious vehicle. A bulldozer seen in the background. About 25 German prisoners of war are seen awaiting evacuation, behind barbed wire on the beach,guarded by a U.S.military policeman. As a shell whines overhead they all instinctively drop to the ground and the shell explodes somewhere out of sight. An 83 ft. U.S. Coast Guard rescue cutter looks for Allied survivors in the water. The British Hospital ship "Prague" and others are seen at anchor, ready to receive patients. Wounded soldiers being carried on stretchers to a landing craft on the beach. A wounded man being transferred from a damaged LCI to another one. Wounded being hoisted in groups of 4 each, from the crippled and sinking LCI(L)85. The are lowered to deck of the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). Navy Rear Admiral, John L. Hall, Jr., observing the transfer of wounded. Sweeping views of Omaha Beach after the beachhead was secured. Numerous support vessels are seen close offshore. Trucks move along roads; war materiel is stockpiled in open areas; barrage balloons fly aloft; and soldiers move everywhere. Closeup of the LCI(L) 92 ,on the beach,showing the holes blown in her. The LCI(L)553, beached sideways in the sand. Seen beached and damaged, is LCI(L)87, flagship of Coast Guard Captain Miles E. Imlay, deputy commander of the Coast Guard's Omaha Assault Group O-1. Mechanics working to repair the screw from a boat.
Polish troops in the European Theater during World War I. Carts drawn by mules and loaded with supplies move across a field. Polish troops carrying rifles march along the field. The soldiers fire artillery. Smoke rises from the firing. The soldiers advance and fire the rifles. Soldiers aboard a truck passing across a field. Officers and soldiers standing outside a building discuss. Russian prisoners of war.
Allied troops in Serbia during World War I. Soldier seated in an area. Sandbags stacked on a field. Some of the soldiers load and fire artillery. Captured Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war, some standing and some seated, are seen eating food while under guard.
The Soviet campaign against the Germans on the Eastern Front of World War II. Soviet aircraft in flight as they bomb German positions. Soviet infantry advances along a hill side as smoke rises in the background. The aircraft in flight. Soviet soldiers and tanks advance across a field. Artillery being fired and explosions occur. Dead German soldiers in trenches. German equipment and shell cases. German prisoners being made to march.
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