Allied troops break through the German Gustav line, during World War II. Allies troops fire guns, howitzers, mortars and machine guns on Nazi positions. French troops fire artillery and Sherman tanks fire. Explosions and smoke rise. French troops capture Castelforte, nicknamed 'little Cassino' on May 14. German prisoners are being taken as they surrender. Wounded Allied soldiers. Troops move through the ruins of captured Castleforte. British break through the Gustav line and on May 18 capture destroyed Monte Cassino. View of broken walls of the gutted Benedictine Abbey. Gutted buildings of town. Ruined building. Allied troops move ahead and advance. Bedraggled inhabitants return to their towns. An old woman eats bread. Planes in flight.
Allied drive towards Rome after the capture of Monte Casino during the end of World War II. Ruins of Cassino crushed by Allied war machines. Artillery shelled walls of Monte Cassino. Enemy mines and booby traps. Commanding officer of British, American and French army including British Army Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, U.S. Army General Mark W. Clark and Juin et al plan for the drive on Rome. Army tanks drive. Smoke rises. German prisoners are being taken.
German infantry advance in the Belgorod-Orel sector, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during World War II. Animated map of Belgorod-Orel sector . Soviet and German planes air combat overhead. Soviet plane dives onto earth and explodes. German infantry advance. Massed German tanks advance. Explosions and smoke rise. Shows captured, flaming, and demolished Soviet armor. Soviet POW's (Prisoners of War) being marched to the rear, including some very young Soviet boy soldiers. German Field Marshal Walter Model inspects s.Pz.Abt.505 Tiger tank. Anti aircraft gun fires at Soviet planes. German soldiers looks through binoculars. Soldiers on a camouflaged army tank.
The People’s Republic of China releases detained U.S. civilians in the Chinese border with British colony of Hong Kong. U.S. civilians cross "Bamboo Curtain," arriving to freedom in Hong Kong. U.S. civilians are freed by the Communist Chinese government after imprisonment and brain washing. Civilians include Catholic Church missionary Father Harold Rigney, Rector of the University of Beijing. A young naval intelligence officer and Fulbright Fellow student at Beijing University named Walter Allyn Rickett and his wife Adele are among the released prisoners. Former U.S. Flying Tiger pilot Lawrence Buol shows happiness after his release from China. Buol sits while Rickett drinks a bottle of soda after their release.
First scene of film shows waves rolling in on a shoreline. Next, four transport ships are seen underway in the Atlantic ocean. A transport ship is docked next to a large pier where war materiel is piled up and some allied soldiers are standing in formation, while others are proceeding across the pier. Closeup of the soldiers on the move reveals that they are British soldiers in battle gear. A wider view from atop a building shows the area to be industrial in nature, with smoke rising from foothills in the distance. Change of scene shows several U.S Landing Craft Infantry Large, LCI (L)s numbered: 322; 85; 86; and 325, docked in England, preparing for the D-day invasion of Europe in June, 1944. A formation of four American B-24 Liberator bombers is seen in flight. Clusters of bombs are seen falling from aircraft and exploding on the ground below. Paratroopers are viewed as they jump from an airplane. A convoy of LCI (L)s underway in the English Channel. Closeup of one (LCI number 31) is seen from a low flying airplane. Another view of LCIs silhouetted against light-reflecting water. American soldiers wading ashore, unopposed, from LCI number 36, during the continued invasion of Southern France, in August, 1944. Post D-day view from overflying aircraft of Allied troops assembling and moving inland from the Normandy beachhead. Closeups of Surrendering German soldiers carrying a white flag. Closeups of German prisoners. One of them displays his uniform sleeve identifying him as a member of Hermann Goering Division. He also wears the Iron Cross and another medal.
War crimes trials (Flick Case) in Nuremberg, Germany. Defendants enter courtroom and take their places in prisoner's dock. Defendants include Hermann Terberger, Bernhard Weiss, Konard Kaletsch, Otto Steinbrinck and Freidrich Flick. People in courtroom rise as judges William C Christianson, Frank N. Richman, Charles B Sears, and Richard D Dixon enter. U.S. flag in the background. The judges ask that the prosecutor read the indictment. Prosecutor Thomas E Ervin reads the indictment. Ervin states that workers were subject to inhuman treatment while employed in German factories.
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