German soldiers in wagons pulled by horses over wet muddy road at start of World War 1. Kaiser Wilhelm II and other dignitaries emerge from a car and are greeted by officials. The Kaiser with officers and dignitaries outside a church building. Kaiser talks to the officials and shakes hands with them. He ascends the steps towards a horse carriage. The Crown Prince Wilhelm and other German military officers stand around and discuss maps in a field and use a rangefinder or binoculars to observe. The Kaiser gets into a car and is driven through Berlin. Troops and other cars and horse drawn wagons on the streets.
Troop carriers drop supplies for troops at war over a lake in Papua New Guinea during World War II . Various material and supplies being prepared for delivery. Wheel barrow parts dropped from planes. The parts are then reassembled for use. Barbed wire dropped with the supplies. Soldiers organize and pack mails for the troops in sacks. Soldiers wrap Gelignite between two sand bags for minimum damage during drops. Rations packed in neatly stacked cartons. Soldiers prepare and pack ammunition for machine guns and mortars, as well as grenades for delivery. A soldier packs medical supplies into boxes. Two soldiers wrap the packed supplies in cloth. Another soldier attaches a parachute to the medical supplies.
American and Australian soldiers during the Buna-Gona Campaign in Papua New Guinea. A map of the conflict area. Soldiers amidst firing in the fields and forests. A tank moves through the forest area. Planes in the sky. Soldiers under heavy camouflage among the bushes. A military storage facility. Soldiers and natives pack and prepare to deliver biscuits to troops. Papuan natives put a box into a sack. Soldiers at tables make requisitions for a supply of blankets. Blankets are transferred from a truck to a warehouse. A soldier calculates the supply of European and native ration supplies to the troops during the Buna Campaign in October - November 1942. A plane in the sky, and then lands. A U.S. Airman explains the process of, and dangers involved in the dropping of supplies from airplanes. Soldiers fight the enemy in the forest. Wounded Japanese soldiers are carried on stretchers. A dead soldier on the ground. Australian and American soldiers celebrate their victory. The soldiers sit and rest, smiling and smoking cigarettes. Soldiers pay their respects at graves of comrades in a makeshift cemetery. (World War II period).
1943: Animated map depicts Japanese advancement and footholds of Allied troops in Papua New Guinea. Australian 6th Division troops advance through thick jungles towards Salamaua. Soldiers route for enemies in the jungle and fire guns and artillery. Machine gun nests in the jungle. An injured soldier waits to be evacuated. The natives carry soldiers on stretchers. An Australian soldier help a wounded comrade across a river. The Australian troops are relieved by U.S. troops. USAAF B-26 Marauder at a supply depot in Kela village. Native carriers wait for supplies to be dropped from airplanes. 14 August 1943: 5th AAF bombs and strafes targets in the Wewak and Salamaua areas. USAAF B-24 Liberator drops bombs over target areas. Smoke and explosions due to the bombardment. (World War II period).
September 1943, in World War 2. Animated map shows advance of the Allied troops to Nadzab and Lae in papua New Guinea. The Australian 7th Division advance towards Lae. Soldiers in jeeps, on motorcycles and on foot advance through the jungle amidst air and artillery barrage. Soldiers fire machine guns and other artillery. Animated map shows the advance of General Thomas Blamey's troops towards Salamaua. Soldiers cross the Francisco River with natives. The Australian 9th Division advances along the east coast. Soldiers in puddles and streams. A military truck stuck in the mud. Soldiers prepare for jungle fighting. Soldiers take cover among bushes as Japanese troops fire. Machine gun nests in the jungle. USAAF B-25 Mitchell bombers drop bombs over enemy territory. Fire and smoke from the explosions. AN-M40 (Para-Frag) fragmentation bombs are dropped from USAAF A -29 Havoc aircraft. Australian 7th Division troops amidst artillery and anti-aircraft fire. USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress and B-26 Marauder bombers in the sky. On 16 September 1943, the Australian 7th Division captures Lae. Bombed ruins, damaged Japanese planes, destroyed airstrips, enemy ships and boats in the harbor. Destroyed Japanese ammunition dump 'Chinatown'. Australian 9th Division crosses the Bamboo River bridge to enter Lae. Animated map shows advance of amphibious forces, paratroopers and airborne operations of the 5th AAF. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur and his men at the 90th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing quarters.
Film opens showing a number of German soldiers walking into an area of a steel fabricating factory, where workers are taking a lunch break, during World War 2. The visitors are being escorted by a civilian factory executive. Closeup of workers seated at a table eating their lunch. As the soldiers stand around the table, on of the workers greets and converses with them. Next, the visiting soldiers stand back as workers use cables to guide a hot steel part being moved by an overhead crane and chain hoist, into position in a heavy hydraulic press. Closeup of young German Army officers observing the process. Closeup of decorations on uniform of one officer that include the close combat Clasp (Nahkampfspange); Iron Cross; The General Assault Badge (Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen) and two other unidentified military badges. Visiting soldiers observe as steel workers maneuver the heavy hot steel ingot in the heavy press. Closeup of the hot steel ingot suspended on the chain hoist. Closeups of soldiers as they watch and some workers as they manipulate the heavy hot steel part. A German soldier distributes cigarettes to some of the steel workers.
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