UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George comes out of a building, followed by Prime Minister of France Aristide Briand. They get into the car.
German forces smash into the U.S. First Army positions along a 45-mile front and advance deep into Luxemburg and Belgium, in Battle of the Bulge during World War II. Animated maps show Germany, France, and Belgium. German Tiger tanks, troops, and artillery in action against Americans. Vehicles of United States convoy wrecked and burning along road, as German troops advance past the burning vehicles. Fire and smoke rise from U.S. tanks, Jeeps, and trucks. Germans firing and bombing. U.S. soldiers captured. Frozen dead bodies of U.S. soldiers, victims of the Malmedy massacre, some with hands and feet tied, being placed army truck. Dead bodies of Belgian civilians being placed in large common grave. View of German officer ordering a firing squad to shoot. German troops smoke American cigarettes taken from dead U.S. troops. American troops in retreat and burning and destroying war materiel that could not be brought with them. American defenders firing artillery, including antiaircraft guns fired level, as antitank weapons. Skies streaked with contrails and dogfights between American and German airplanes. American aircraft bombing German positions after weather clears. American troops patrol in snow covered wooded areas. General Eisenhower talks with soldiers. German soldiers advancing. Newspaper headline reads: "Russians Smash Last Nazi Line." Another newspaper headline reads: "40 Jap Ships Sunk." Another reads: "3rd Army Deep in Germany." Narrator cautions against complacency, reminding of 78 thousand American soldiers lost during the Christmas holiday, in 1944. Views of dead American soldiers. Narrator offers closing public service war propaganda message: "If you have a War Job, Stick to it" and " If you Haven't, Get one!"
America declares war against Germany during World War I. A report in ' New York Tribune ' is pictured. President Woodrow Wilson at his desk in his office in Washington D.C., United States as he declares war against Germany. A copy of Joint Resolution declaring war against Germany. General Pershing reaches England and then France where he visits Napoleon's tomb, Les Invalides along with other French officers. United States Secretary of Navy, Josephus Daniels and Assistant Secretary of Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt as America joins the war. Allied ships underway at sea. United States battleship New York at sea. Sailors aboard a ship. Admiral Rodman addresses the crew aboard a ship.
United States 969th Field Artillery Unit in France during World War II. African American soldiers of the unit talk. A soldier receives orders over a field phone to fire artillery. Soldiers load shells into a 155 mm howitzer. Men fire the howitzer.
United States 969th Field Artillery Unit in France during World War II. An African American soldier of the unit sets a fuze onto a shell. A soldier speaks over a field phone. A two and a half ton truck arrives at the gun position with ammunition. Soldiers unload shells and store them in a dugout.
United States 969th Field Artillery Unit in France during World War II. An African American soldier of the unit near a howitzer. A soldier receives firing order over a field phone. The howitzer is fired. The soldier speaks over the phone. The battery of the howitzer being fired. Smoke rises
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