Film opens showing Adolf Hitler shaking hands with Benito Mussolini of Italy. Next Mussolini is seen addressing a large crowd from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, Italy announcing plans to invade Greece. Views of Greek troops marching during the Greco-Italian War between the kingdoms of Italy and Greece from 28 October 1940 to 23 April 1941. Animated map depicts Italian advances into Greece with subsequent withdrawal as the Greeks drive them back and then invade Albania. Closeup of Hitler enraged about this turn of events, delaying his military Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union. Glimpse of Mussolini visiting his troops in the field. Newspaper headline reads: "Jugoslavia Gets Hitler Terms." A sub headline reads: "Nazi move in Greece Seen." Another view of Greek troops marching. A Junkers JU-87 Stuka dive bomber in flight, enters a steep dive to bomb a target. Bombs exploding in forest. Another Stuka diving and dropping bombs on a city building. Closeup glimpse of a Stuka speeding past the camera. View of a bombed out Yugoslavian building from German air attack on April 6, 1941. Animated map shows German and Italian forces attack paths from their bases in Italy, Hungary, Romania, and Hungary, vanquishing Yugoslavia. Map extends to Greece, where German forces overwhelm three defending Greek Divisions (aided by some British forces). Aerial view of a German Junkers Ju 52 transport plane flying over the Parthenon in Athens.
The Atlas LV-3A/Agena B rocket on a launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. SAMOS 3, a U.S. Air Force first generation photo surveillance satellite, aboard the Atlas LV-3A/Agena B. The rocket blows up. Smoke columns rise as the rocket catches fire. Several views of the smoke rising. Electrical towers and lines in the foreground. The launch pad as seen through the smoke. (Note:One of the pad umbilicals did not properly detach at liftoff, cutting off electrical power to the Atlas. The booster fell back through the launch stand and exploded. SLC-4E was fully repaired in only nine weeks and hosted Samos 4's launch two weeks after that.)
Greece receives a lend-lease Submarine Chaser (USS PC 622) in Washington DC. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Officers and sailors of the U.S. and Royal Hellenic Navy attend the formal transfer ceremony at at the Washington Navy yard. Greek sailors wear caps displaying the words, "B Naytikon." The United States flag is lowered and the Greek flag hoisted on the ship. (The Greek Navy renamed the ship the "Vassilefs Georghios II.")
Draftees are trained for army in the United States during World War II. A U.S. officer recruits men for army. Men including farmers, fishermen, clerks and factory workers walk in lines. Men run on ground with wooden guns as they undergo training. Men drive trucks. Men learn to load guns. The draftees are inducted and trained. Men from different United Nations member countries including America, Russia, China, German, Czech Republic, Greece, India, Dutch, Philippines and French get trained and prepared for war.
Nazi German troops in Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II. A German campaign map of Italy and Greece during the war. Field Marshal of German Air Force General Albert Kesselring inspects a German post in Italy. A German soldier looks through a sighting instrument. Artillery pieces are cleaned and assembled by German troops.
U.S. officers arrive in China. Commandant of the U.S. forces in China General Albert Wedemeyer makes an inspection tour of the American installations in China. He comes out of an aircraft. Other officials greet him. U.S. Ambassador to China Patrick Jay Hurley arrives and meets Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill meets local leaders in Athens, Greece.
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