International Peace Campaign Meeting at Trafalgar Square in London, England. Men stand in front of a banner. The banner reads 'Britain, France, Russia, Can Stop War'. A huge crowd gathered at the Square. Speech by James Meston, 1st Baron Meston in Trafalgar Square (Trafalgar Sq, London WC2N 5DN, United Kingdom). Several people stand behind Lord Meston. He talks about peace in his speech. A sculpture of a huge lion in the background.
Allied Forces invade France on D-Day. British warship in Mediterranean Sea. British flag on mast. Officers observe and look through binoculars. General Dwight Eisenhower stands with other officers. General Eisenhower and General Montgomery stand with an officer. General Montgomery climbs down rope ladder to his ship. The ship pulls away. (World War II period).
Parade on a street in Norway during World War II. Formation of Norwegian volunteers. Vidkun Quisling and Nazi German officials walking along the lined Norwegian volunteers. Vidkun Quisling salutes the flag. French Volunteers lined up in Versailles, France. Volunteers march to railroad station. Volunteers bid farewell to girls and board train. Latvian and Lithuanian volunteers march to station. They bid farewell to their families. They board train and wave goodbye.
French Army General Beynet in Beirut, Lebanon of Levant States near end of World War 2. Delegate General and Plenipotentiary Army General of France in Levant States. He receives local press and war correspondents. He addresses the correspondents and gives an account of events. Correspondents stand around his desk. The correspondents ask him questions.
Opening scene shows a German soldier using a sounding range and direction finder to locate British aircraft attacking German installations in France during World War 2. The next scene is during a foggy night. German searchlights are seen trying to locate attacking British aircraft. A flare is seen falling toward the ground. German antiaircraft guns fire. Engine sounds of aircraft are heard. View of German gunners firing tracer bullets and heavier antiaircraft guns skyward. A ball of fire in the air marks a struck British airplane. Closeup of burning British aircraft wreckage. Next, a ledger of British aircraft downed by a German antiaircraft battery is seen. It shows a list of British aircraft shot down in July and August, including: Bristol Blenheim light bomber; Short Stirling bomber, numerous Spitfires; and other aircraft. Workers are seen walking through a yard filled with the wreckage of British aircraft in a junk yard, where a powered crane is seen raising wings, and engines of the aircraft and loading them onto rail cars. The Narrator states that by November, the German defenses had downed 923 British aircraft. View of a loaded open rail car and a locomotive pulling loaded rail cars.
View from cockpit of German Dornier Do 17 bomber, of many parked on an airfield in German occupied France during World War 2. Camera pans across the cockpit. View shifts view from under the wing of one plane as an aircrew member heads toward it. Next, the bomber with engines running taxis out for takeoff. Scene changes to show head-on approach of a Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft taking off toward the camera. Then a formation of He 111 aircraft is seen in flight. Extreme closeup of He 111 in flight, with crew member visible in the aircraft. View from cockpit of a Dornier Do 17 bomber in formation flight. (Shaky camera makes them look like bi-wing aircraft in some brief scenes.) Camera pans across cockpit showing the Do 17 in formation above. View from instrument panel, of pilot and copilot at controls in a bomber. More views of the bombers in formation. The bombers arrive over London in the dark and are subject to British anti-aircraft fire with shells bursting all around them. Glimpse inside the cabin of one bomber. More flak explosions all around. The German planes release their bombs, which are seen exploding on London, England, below.
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