Scott soldiers prepare for the battle during the World War I. Scottish infantry passes through Mametz. Houses along the sides of street. Wreckage in the area. Soldiers walk in the ruined area. Trees in the background. Telephone wire is laid to establish communication. Soldiers stand in the rubble and fix the wire to a broken wall. Troops walk in an abandoned German trench.
Battle of the Somme, in World War 1.Two batteries of Royal field artillery moving to a position beyond Mametz, over battlefield where Gordons' and Devons' suffered losses during a charge on a ridge near Mametz. Horses pull numerous British artillery guns and limbers. The artillery assembling at the new location.
The British Dressing Station for slightly wounded at Minden Post, during Battle of the Somme, in World War 1. Medics providing first aid to the wounded. Watching in the background are several soldiers of the 24th Oldham (Pioneers) Battalion, awaiting orders to advance and occupy captured German trenches. German curtain artillery barrage outside the Minden Post. Their shells exploding in a line across the battlefield. A lone British soldier standing in the remains of British fire trenches wrecked by German high explosive shelling, minutes before. British patrol moving cautiously and stepping over barbed wire, in no-man's-land to clear the area of German snipers and hidden machine guns. They move along line of captured trenches checking for German soldiers hidden in dugouts.
Slate announces "Fall of France." in World War 2. Next, huge crowd of enthusiastic people is seen jamming the Piazza Venezia in Rome. Prime Minister Benito Mussolini ("II Duce," the Leader) of Italy is seen on the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia, overlooking the Piazza. View from behind him as he waves to the crowd. Closeup of Mussolini announcing that Italy will consider herself at war with Great Britain and France effective 11 June 1940. Another view of the crowd, from the Palace balcony. Scene shifts abruptly to fires burning in a town in France and scenes of death and destruction in France from invading Axis forces. French soldiers and police assist a French civilian lying on the ground near a path in a bucolic setting in France. Several Frenchmen on bicycles ride along the path, behind them. More scenes of fires and destruction. A civilian being carried on a stretcher, accompanied by a nurse in white. A French boy walks next to the stretcher bearers. A French woman holding a baby with look of anguish on her face. Closeup of young boy and girl children among French civilians fleeing bombing. The boy is asleep on a burlap sack, with a woman's arm over him. The girl simply looks wide-eyed at the camera. A French civilian woman and a child, lying together on a stretcher on the ground. Glimpse of a person's hand lying open on the ground.
Hamburg-American ocean liner, SS New York visits the port of Fort-de-France, in the French Caribbean island of Martinique. Three Women passengers,in swimwear, lean against the ship's railing as other passengers sun themselves lying on deck chairs on the ship's deck. The Island of Martinique can be seen in the background. Another scene shows buildings in the town of Fort-de-France. Crew members lower a tender from the ship to carry passengers to the town. View from the tender underway with crew and passengers aboard, and the SS New York seen at anchor in the background. They pass a two-masted sail boat. View of local people carrying baskets of goods on the town pier. Fish and lobster in a basket. A woman carrying a keg and package on her head. Children walking along the pier with their mother. Local women buying and selling goods. Local people conversing in what the slate calls "a peculiar French patois." Two women and two girls (one holding a doll) conversing. The Fort-de-France Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Fort-de-France) built of wood except for its steel steeple. The park of La Savane, with statue of Josephine, Empress of France, wife of Napoleon,who was born in Martinique. Passengers returning to the SS New York,climb a gangway from their tender, as local boys in small boats wait nearby for the chance to dive for coins from the passengers aboard the ship.
A map shows German occupied France. A German soccer match underway. Players tussle for the ball. Goal keepers defend the goal posts. Crowd watches the match.
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