Film begins showing a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 transport plane in flight over the city of Cairo and Pyramids, in Egypt during World War 2. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's voice is heard speaking in his 1943 Christmas report to the Armed Forces. He states that following the Cairo Conference, he and Prime Minister Winston Churchill flew to Teheran, Iran. View of city of Teheran from an airplane overhead. View of front of the Soviet Embassy building there. Wider view showing conference principals on the porch with reporters and photographers below the steps. Next, a closer look with Soviet Marshal Stalin, President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Churchill, seated on chairs, conversing. Closeup of the Big Three with their military commanders standing behind them. Views of ongoing Soviet operations on the Eastern Front. Russian troops firing field artillery from a snowy field. (A transport airplane is in the far background.) Shells bursting on snowy hillside. Soviet soldiers training in white arctic clothing rush through toward tanks and lie down in the snow. Three Soviet aircraft buzz a snow covered field. A huge explosion is seen and then Soviet cavalry charge across snow. View shifts to U.S. Army troops operating in Italy. A jeep filled with soldiers tows an artillery field piece across a shallow river. U.S. soldiers ride across a stream in a truck. Rear view of artillery piece being towed toward an italian town. Glimpses of aerial combat between Allied and German aircraft. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Mark Clark are seen riding in a jeep across a bridge in Italy. Glimpse of Italian people trying to clean up destroyed section of a town. Portrait of Benito Mussolini in the debris. General Eisenhower walking with a local British commanding officer and General Mark Clark, in Italy. Eisenhower and Clark at an outdoor briefing by British officers. Eisenhower pinning the Legion of Merit medal on U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz, deputy commander of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces who President Roosevelt says has been selected to be commander of Strategic Air Forces in Europe. Glimpse of B-24 Liberator bombers dropping bombs in Europe. Film shifts back to Teheran and the Big Three Leaders sitting in chairs. Closeups of them. Then their foreign secretaries step being them (Molotov, Hull, and Eden.) Nazi swastika flag. German armed forces marching on parade. German boys playing on artillery pieces under watchful eyes of German soldiers. Children at a playground. European farmers harvesting grain by hand. German troops in black parading. Glimpse of Adolf Hitler giving impassioned speech. Several views of Teheran conferees. President Roosevelt holding a ceremonial sword. Scenes of good will with hand shakes among conferees. Glimpses of British, Soviet, and Chinese troops attacking. Massed flags of the Allies.
Clip titled 'Major John C. Meyer 487 Sqdn. (Squadron) 352 F.G. (Fighter Group) attacking ME-109 on 4 December 1943'. Gun camera footage of ME-109 seen in flight and later explodes due to attack during World War II in Germany. A parachute descends.
A film titled 'VIII Fighter Command Lt. Putnam 83 Sqdn.(Squadron) 78 F.G.(Fighter Group) attacking ME-109 on 22 December 1943'. Luftwaffe (German Air Force) aircraft ME-109 explodes in Germany during World War 2 following aerial attack.
Titled 'VIII Fighter Command Lt. Williamson 62 Sqdn.(Squadron) 56 F.G.(Fighter Group) attacking ME-109 on 22 December 1943'. Luftwaffe (German Air Force) aircraft ME-109 explodes in Germany during World War II aerial battle after being hit by U.S. aircraft fire, as seen in gun camera footage.
A film titled 'VIII Fighter Command Lt. J.T Godfrey 336 Sqdn.(Squadron) 4 F.G.(Fighter Group) attacking 2 ME-109's on 23 December 1943'. Luftwaffe aircrafts ME-109 explode in Germany during World War II.
Clip titled 'VIII Fighter Command Major E.W. Stewart 328 Sqdn.(Squadron) 352 F.G.(Fighter Group) attacking ME-110 and ME-210 on 22 December 1943'. Gun camera footage of U.S. aircraft attack on Luftwaffe aircraft ME-110 and ME-210 during World War II in Germany.
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