American soldiers scurry up a hill after setting gas charges at its base. Next, they are seen ready to remotely set off the charges. They do so, pressing the plungers on their detonators, sumultaneously. The charges explode at the base ot the hill and send huge white clouds of gas billowing over the hill. American soldiers on a hillside overlooking a rural area of France, fire a battery of mortars. Next, the shells are seen striking and exploding in the distance, where they create a virtual wall of gas smoke. Other shells explode, raising black smoke in the midst of the gas. In final scene, several soldiers walk cautiously, widely separated from each other, across a field of flowers, toward the retreating gas cloud, against which they are silhouetted
Wounded United States soldiers in France during World War I. The soldiers load and fire gas shells. Smoke rises from the shells along a hillside. Fields in the foreground. Smoke spreads in the surrounding area. A group of soldiers advances on a field and goes towards a forest area.
United States soldiers in France during World War II. The soldiers play volley ball in a former barrack area. A German barrack in the background. A German sign on a gate post.
United States army engineers help French civilians in repairing railroads, France during World War II. French train runs again rebuild by Allied engineers. Views of wreckage and destroyed railway tracks, trains, twisted steel structure and broken stones of monuments after bombarding. Destroyed bridges. French civilians remove debris and repair bridge over river. Under the supervision of Army engineers, trained American salvage group rebuild a railway and work at dynamite bridge. French use partially destroyed equipment and attach nuts and bolts to locomotives. They repair locomotives. Tank locomotive is ready to run. Locomotives are replaced by crane. Supplies train cross through the bridge and provide aid to army. French civilians and engineers restore ruin railway and work on it. Railway sections are completed, and train passes away. Hospital train carrying wounded people cross away.
French firemen demonstrate new aluminum foil fire suits in France. Fire fighters wear the fire suits which are only three thousandths of an inch thick. They plunge into a 3000 degree inferno. People watch the fire fighters. The fire fighters emerge unsigned from the fire. One fireman takes off his helmet and smiles.
A Communist meeting in Paris France around the end of World War II. A sign "Bienvenue A La Delegation Sovietique" (welcome to the soviet deputation). Large photo images of Stalin and de Gaulle flank the stage on either side. A Russian delegate speaks in Russian to French citizens at the meeting. French audience seated in chairs. A French representative speaks to the audience.
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