A stream of U.S. Army trucks heads along a highway as opening slate rolls, emphasizing the importance of logistics to wartime operations. Two U.S. Army small hatch M4 Sherman tanks (Possibly Ford built moels M4A3) rush down a hillside toward the camera. View from atop a tank with Browning M2 .50 caliber heavy machine gun installed. It heads uphill, firing rounds from its gun, raising explosion of earth ahead of it. Barrel of a 240 mm howitzer gun swings up in front of the camera. A U.S. coastal defense gun firing from a fort. Rear view of 240 mm Howitzer being fired. Towed field artillery pieces being fired. Troops near water, firining a Bofars 40 mm anti aircraft gun. A U.S. soldier firing a Browning 1917 water cooled machine gun. A B-17 bomber in flight overhead. View of a bombardier at a Norden bomb sight inside the B-17 with his finger on the bomb controls. The bomb bays open and bombs fall, seen striking in a line on the ground. Ground level views of large explosions on the ground. A tank camouflaged in underbrush, firing its gun. A small hatch Sherman tank charging the camera. Several German Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft flying fast and low on strafing runs. A soldier firing an antiaircraft machine gun. Closeups of three Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft attacking at high speed, only several feet above ground. Bombs bursting in a field where a soldier in lying next fo barbed wire. A tank knocking trees over as it emerges from woods. Infantry following tanks across a field. A series of scenes showing armor and infantry charging. In one, troops are wearing gas masks. A huge explosion in a field. Paratroopers inside an airplane connect to a static line and jump from the plane. Lines of parachutes fill the sky as paratroopers jump from C-47 aircraft. Closeup of paratrooper as he descends and hits the ground. View of Polish cavalry riding in a loose formation. German gun crew fires at Polish city. Smoke rising from burning buildings. Norwegian flag flying over a fort in Norway. Views of German Ju-52 aircraft in flight over Athens, Greece. It flies over the Parthenon and other ancient buildings. German tanks and troops entering Belgium. Troops marching in Yugoslavia. The American flag flying over Bataan. Civilians grieving over dead in Poland. Dead victims of war in Norway, Greece, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Malaya, Singapore, Shanghai, and Mandalay. A group of civilians grieving over two dead children. The German (Nazi) flag flying from a flagpole. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
People of Anderson, South Carolina perform demonstrations imitating Adolf Hitler's Nazi martial law over Germany. A large crowd gathered in the streets to view the reenactment. The actor posing as German Führer Hitler in the car. The mock Nazi salutes, overdone intentionally in trying to be humorous. "Nazi" soldiers march through the crowd. The "Nazi" actors charge and seize the armed citizens assembled behind stacked cotton bales outside a building. The radio proclamations by the "Hitler" actor partly in gibberish and partly in English. The continuous mocking Nazi salutes by the other actor beside "Hitler" in the radio station. (World War II period).
Football Team from University of Notre Dame plays football on snow covered field in South bend, Indiana. Players of Notre Dame run. Coach of Notre Dame, Francis William Leahy. Players do physical exercise. They push wooden horses on snow to practice blocking. Frank Leahy talks to an official. Players play football. A player catches football in mud.
American Hollywood actress Mae West arrives in South Hampton, England. Mae West decked in white fur coat while standing on deck of a ship. Press photographers taking photographs of the actress. Mae West is in England for a stage show. Mae West posing for photographers. Mae West smiling. Narrator says Mae's hobby is "men" and she hopes that every man in Britain will "come up and see her sometime."
U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt in South Carolina, United States. U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt with other officers in a car as he inspects the troops and installations at a huge encampment, Camp Jackson. Troops give guard of honor to the President.
A football match being played between the University of Southern California and University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. The game in progress. A cheering crowd in the stands. The University of Southern California (USC) beats the University of Notre Dame with a score of 20-12.
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