Opens with scene of Japanese Ambassador to Germany, General Hiroshi Oshima ascending stairs to greet German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The Japanese and German representatives are shown signing an economic pact. Scene changes to French young men working in a German plant in occupied France during World War II. Prisoner French young men are seen working as apprentices in the German artillery plant. Men working on machines in the plant and then seated in a dining hall to have a meal. The French workers receive diploma certificates on completion of their training.
German Tank Panzer Division advances with artillery during Battle of France. Troops cross river on pontoon bridge. German Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch oversees operations and talks to soldiers. German Pz.II, Pz.III and Pz.IV tanks driven on dirt road. Soldiers march wearing raincoats. A group of captured French African soldiers who are prisoners of war are seen. Horse drawn artillery advances ahead. Weapon carriers with German troops advance in heavy rain. (World War II period).
General Joseph Vuillemin reviews French Air Cadets at Salon-De-Provence, France. Several aircraft parked on the ground. General Vuillemin reviews Nation's 'West Point' Force. The French general presents Colors to the commander. The cadets marching in line.
A convoy of Allied troop transport ships en route to a beachhead in France, during World War 2. The leading ship displays the number 321 on its bow. Allied troops play with a pet monkey on the deck of a ship. Colonel Kirke B Lawton smokes a cigar as he sits on the bridge of a British transport ship with British Naval officers. The waterfront is crowded with Allied vessels. Many barrage balloons fly overhead. Landing ships at the beachhead. Two U.S. landing craft are seen, numbered 512 and 72. Large Landing ships discharge their cargoes of trucks, tanks, and military vehicles of all sorts. An L-4 airplane being carried on a 2 and a half ton truck. U.S. and British tanks and troops moving inland.
British soldiers in France. The officers briefs troops. Paratroopers descend through parachutes. The troops stand alongside a road. Paratroopers descend from aircraft. Soldiers in army jeep drive through a field. They load equipment onto vehicles. (World War II period).
British soldiers in France during World War II. British troops in armored vehicles advance on a field. Artillery towed by vehicles. British tanks advance. Soldiers walk on the field with rifles in hands. Dead cattle and dead Germans on field. Tanks move on a dirt road.
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