An announcer speaks invasion news into the microphone in New Caledonia, Australia. United States and French military personnel and civilians read news of invasion which is posted to outdoor bulletin board. Interviewer discusses invasion news with a French soldier and a New Caledonian housewife who supported the Free French Forces. Men and women go upstairs in a building. Women talk amongst themselves. Man teaches children outside a school. Girls on the bicycles on the street. Other civilians in discussion on the street. French flag on standard. (World War II period).
German infantry advances through a field on the Eastern front. German Marder III H Panzerjaeger tank destroyers fire at targets. Scenes of smoking targets and destroyed tanks. (World War II period).
Technicians board a new flying radar station (American Air Force's modified plane) at the McCllelan Air Force Base in Sacramento, California. Pilot in the cockpit of the plane. Plane in flight at high altitude.
German Pz.III, Panther and Tiger tanks firing and Stuka-zu-Fuss rockets firing at Russian positions on Eastern Front, during World War II. Burning vehicle. Panther G of 12th SS Panzer Division (Hitler Jugend) fires on Canadian positions in mid-June 1944, in Normandy. Empty shells.thrown out of tank by German crewman. Scenes of smoke and fire.
Cartoon representation of German rail yards and war factories, opens the film. Cities of : Anklam; Bremen; and Frankfurt are highlighted as critical factory and railroad junctions. Animated map shows Allied air strikes against French marshaling yards in Spring of 1944 in preparation for the invasion at Normandy. In February, 1945 Allied officers use large wall map to discuss and plan the destruction of all railroad operations in the Ruhr and surrounding areas. View of U.S. bombers in formation (with fighter cover overhead) on bombing missions in Operation Clarion, against all small and medium rail junctions in Germany. View from Allied bomber of Bombs falling and exploding at a rail junction. More aerial views of bombs exploding in numerous places during this operation. An American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber dropping bombs on a railroad marshaling yard. Aerial view of bombs exploding on targets in Essen. Views of wide destruction wrought at German railroad facilities. A US Army Air Forces P-51 fighter plane descending to strafe a target. Gun camera views of aircraft strafing lines of communication in Germany, including road and barge traffic. Closeup of runs firing from P-51 aircraft. Railroad trains being strafed and dramatic explosions at target rail sites.
A film titled 'Big four parley-West bars Red China in European Peace Talks'. United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles arrives at the West Berlin airport for European Peace Talks. French foreign minister George Bidault and British representative Anthony Eden also arrive in Berlin. Venue for the talks, Allied Control Council is seen.
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