An exhibit of war art at the Kunstlerhaus in Vienna during World War II. A poster titled 'War and Art' advertising the exhibition in German. Exterior of the exhibition building with Axis flags. Sculptors of soldiers and Nazi Swastika banners at the entrance. Officers view the exhibition. Exhibits include paintings, pictures, sculptures and armors. Exhibits from countries like Slovakia, Romania, Spain and Finland. Japanese Samurai armor in case. Sculpture of a Samurai on a horse. Paintings depict war scenes, soldiers on horses and in boats. A painting of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Civilians view the exhibits.
World War II Allied naval convoy underway in harbor under protection of barrage balloons in Algeria, North Africa. Allied troops disembark a troop's transport ship at a dock. Troops and equipment are unloaded at the dock and British and American forces take over Algeria with little resistance. Allied bombers take off from an airfield. Bombs seen detaching from open bomb bay doors of Allied aircraft in flight, and bombs away view as bombs are dropped from a high Altitude. B-25 aircraft in formation bomb Nazi German General Rommel's Afrika Korps in Libya. British artillery guns fired and Eighth Army moves forward pursuing German enemy. Heavy smoke rises from shell hits. British infantry leave trench protection and run forward on battlefield to engage German enemy. Dramatic scene as large explosion causes the British soldiers to drop to the ground while advancing. British tanks and infantrymen advance past wreckage and burning German aircraft and armor. British General Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery seen with his advancing forces. Italian Army prisoners surrender under British protection. In city of Algiers, captured German officers and members of German Armistice Commission taken away by U.S. soldiers and Italian and German visitors and members of Axis Spain Fifth Column are rounded up in the city for internment. U.S. troops march on city streets. French and Algerian natives cheer for the United States and British allied troops that have taken over. United States troops decorated by General Mark Clark. Scene changes to aerial view of Italy. Cloud cover over the city. Bombs dropped over Italian targets by British and American bomber aircraft. View of explosions on ground and smoke.
Refugee children, displaced children, and war orphan boys and girls arrive in New York harbor, United States during World War II. The refugee children aboard the ship Serpa Pinto as they arrive in New York to begin a new life. Children, including many Jewish children, from much of war torn Europe, including Poland, Czechoslovakia, Spain and Germany disembark from the ship operated under the auspices of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM). A group of children poses for camera. Red Cross provides food and fresh milk to refugee children. The children eat the food.
Various sites in Granada, Spain. Panoramic view of the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain (C. Real de la Alhambra, s/n, 18009 Granada, Spain). The Alhambra fortress shows its Spanish Medieval Islamic architectural style. Views of the city of Granada in Spain. View of the Court of the Myrtles, the central part of the Comares Palace, and the Court of the Lions inside the Alhambra complex.
The Spanish civil war ends in Madrid, Spain. Aerial view of the houses in the city. A wrecked building. Damaged window panes of a building. A bombed out building. People on street. Captured ammunition being kept on ground. People carry a basket of bread. Civilian refugees of war in a chow line. A child eats food while wrapped in a blanket. A man eats sitting on a bench. Nationalist Cavalry troops march. Nationalist Head of State of Spain Francisco Franco disembarks from a car. People salute to Francisco Franco. He waves to people from a balcony of a building in Madrid. People gather. Next scene shows a railroad train station in Paris France, as Dolores Ibárruri (Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez or also called "La Pasionaria"), a Communist Party, Spanish Republican heroine, exits the train station to a waiting car. She is in exile from Spain, and on her way to Russia.
Castles in Spain. A castle on hilltop and amidst trees. View of the Alhambra palace complex in Granada, Spain (C. Real de la Alhambra, s/n, 18009 Granada, Spain). Court of lions in the Alhambra palace with fountain in the center of the court. Beautifully engraved walls, with wooden doors and windows. Islamic inscriptions on the walls of the palace.