Young Germans hold banners and sit on portion of a building. A crowd assembled in front of bombed out building in Germany, several months after the end of World War 2, in Europe. The crowd listens to a speech delivered by a man. a large sign near the speaker reads "Freedom." Elsewhere, a road sign reads 'You Are Now Entering Russian Occupied Zone'. Newspaper headlines read 'Reds Declare War On Japs'. The Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin examining official papers with the Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
Destroyed German equipment, including some captured American armor, lines the edge of a road near Esperia, Italy during World War II. The German armored vehicles, tanks, antitank guns and trucks were destroyed by U.S. fighter bombers of the 12th Army Air Forces, on May 16, 1944, while supporting the French Expeditionary Force assault on the German Gustav line in that area. French troops stand on the side of a road. Troops examine some of the destroyed armor.
United States Navy planes land on USN Task Force 38 carriers in Gulf of Leyte during World War 2. CVL (Light Aircraft Carrier) underway. Formation of planes. A Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver airplane is waved off during approach and executes go-around before landing on USS Essex. Crewmen examine battle damage on wings and around cockpits of an SB2C-5 aircraft (pilot Lt. Roger Noyes) parked on the flight deck. Pilot in F6F Hellcat fighter (with four rising sun flags for enemy kills on fuselage) awaits signal for takeoff. Formations of other aircraft returning to the carrier.
Film depicts the occupations of U.S. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) during Great Depression in the United States. CCC workers work with fences. Drift fences are erected. Grass seeds are collected from a field. Workers poison rodents. A worker examines dead rodents. Poisonous plants are eradicated.
Damage caused in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Men try to loosen a U.S. army jeep stuck in mud. Prow of wrecked Japanese ship Kyusyu Maru sticks up from water. Beached Japanese freighter in the background. Abandoned Japanese field piece hidden in shrubs. A wrecked Japanese truck. Palm trees in an area. Tree tops showing destruction. U.S. soldier examines a Japanese antiaircraft gun on a beach.
Japanese war crime trials at International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo, Japan. American prosecutor Colonel G. S. Woolworth continues the American case. A few defense including Hideki Tojo seated in box. Defense attorney Joseph Howard makes an objection to a statement made against Koki Hirota by Colonel Woolworth. Defendants seated. Captain Van Meter swears in a new witness of the prosecution, Captain James S Chisholm. Captain Chisholm answers questions put to him by Colonel Woolworth. Colonel Woolworth cross examines Captain Chisholm.
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