Scenes in Italian shipyard during World War 2. Shipyard workers repairing the bow of the Italian Regia Marina Navigatori-class destroyer Ugolino Vivaldi, which was damaged when it rammed and destroyed the British submarine HMS Oswald. The destroyer then rescued surviving British submariners (now prisoners of war) who are seen walking in formation. They are seen again, carrying hand tools and performing agricultural work. British sailors show their tattoos. One shows a butterfly tattoo on his back and a snake tattoo on his hand.
Italian troops advance in Tyrol Sector of Alps mountain range on Italian Front during World War I. Italian troops move up in the Tyrol Sector. Boats in harbor area. Italian troops advance with pack mules along a hillside and across a stream. Troops and pack mules on a mountain road. Battle area shows smoke rising from shell explosions. Smoke rising from mountains.
Iron ore being offloaded from a ship, in large steel buckets, on to a flat car, at a port. A large crane dumping ore into a large open railroad container car, during World War 1. Coke being discharged after being processing from coal, at a steel plant. A traveling crane conveying a large container of raw material to the top of a furnace at a steel plant. Fire emitted from a crucible at a steel plant. An ingot being forged. Sequence shifts to views inside an Italian heavy artillery factory, where an annealing wrap is being lowered around a large gun barrel and heated with a gas fire. Huge gun barrels seen on machining floor. Machinists turning gun barrels on very large lathes. View through a gun barrel showing its spiral rifling. Machinists in a crowded shop where all machines are driven by leather belts. More views of gun barrels being turned on lathes. A man seated at the controls of a huge milling machine that revolves around the work piece, fastened to the machine bed.
Italian SSB 2-man torpedo hoisted in a crane hook. View of controls in the cockpit of the SSB torpedo. Pilots in the cockpit of the SSB underway in water. Crew put on their scuba type face masks. SSB torpedo dives under the water surface. Torpedo comes on the surface and alongside a merchant ship. The Captain remains in the cockpit and the 2nd man gets off the torpedo. He fastens a clamp to the keel of taget ship and then pulls a warhead from the torpedo and fastens it to the target ship. He climbs back aboard the the SSB and they pull away.
Italian bi-winged aircraft parked in rows. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini walking with officers as he inspects Italian airplanes. Three formations of Italian planes perform loops in sky before WWII.
World War Two scenes involving U.S. General George S Patton,Jr. The conquest of Sicily in World War 2. Soldiers of the 7th U.S. Army fire artillery. Explosions in the distance. General Patton with a group of soldiers. American troops in the streets of Sicily. The civilians cheer. Patton waves as a military vehicle passes by. Military vehicles and jeeps pass on the streets. Patton with other officers. American soldiers walk past rubble in the street of Sicily. Troops march. Patton with other soldiers behind a donkey cart. General Eisenhower salutes as he reviews the troops. Patton with General Eisenhower. Patton addresses new troops in Great Britain. Patton with soldiers. Soldiers practice fighting. (Narrated by actor Ronald Reagan.)
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