Note: This film was shown during World War 2 and edited for security reasons. Accordingly, some narrated statements are incorrect or misleading, and should be disregarded. Film opens showing a sentry posted at Yugoslav Partisan Leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito's mountain headquarters in Drvar, Western Bosnia, Yugoslavia. Marshal Tito steps from his headquarters to a lower porch where he stands with American OSS Officer, American Army Major Linn M. Farish, American Liaison to the Partisans, and British Brigadier General Fitzroy Maclean, Winston Churchill's special envoy to the Yugoslav leader. (For security reasons, they are identified as war correspondents.) Scene shifts to the town of Drvar that has experienced several periods of German occupation. Local people go about their daily activities and some pose for the camera. Women are seen salvaging silk from Allied parachutes, that they have spread out on the ground. It will be used as bandages for their Partisan army. View from above of a number of Partisan fighters gathering before the camera. One, a woman with dark hair wearing a black coat, is identified by the narrator, as a 21-year old Montenegrin who left school to join the Partisans. Closeup of that woman conversing with uniformed women soldiers. Next, a loose column of Partisan fighters is seen marching slowly through the town of Drvar. Scene shifts to a large formation of marching Yugoslav Partisan soldiers, who are training in Italy. They are seen standing if formation in a field, under Marshal Tito's command. He orders their officers forward and exchanges salutes with them. Marshal Tito then inspects the ranks. Women soldiers are seen conversing with Tito. He converses with his Chief of Staff, General Koča Popović. Closeup of a smiling woman Partisan fighter. Closeup of a soldier with a notable white moustache. Closeup of two uniformed women with Red Cross armbands. The Partisan soldiers marching across the field with shouldered arms. Film closes with closeup of Marshal Tito in front of his headquarters.
Danish training ship Danmark departs for Denmark from the United States.The Danish flag is raised on the ship's mast. Danmark underway in the Atlantic Ocean. Master-at -arms of ' Danmark ' Knud L. Hansen takes over the vessel during ceremonies. U.S. Coast Guardsmen lined up. Past events shows American cadets training aboard Danmark.
Return of German prisoners of war to Russian soldiers, by the U.S. Army in Grieben, Germany at the end of World War II. A large river barge loaded with German prisoners returning to the east bank of the Elbe river. Russian soldiers on the east bank supervise the unloading of several barges filled with German prisoners of war.
Natzweiler-Struthof, a German concentration and extermination camp, in France used by the Nazis for political prisoners from Belgium and France during World War II. The wire-enclosed building of charged barbed wire fence. Details of charged barbed wire fence.
U.S. soldiers of 29th Division Replacement Training Center near Alsdorf, Germany during World War II. The soldiers march along a muddy road. A sign reads 'Training Center Command Post - Our slogan is Enthusiasm'. A soldier signs on a helmet and hands it over to another soldier. The soldiers fire rifle grenade launchers at a pillbox.
The liberated Wöbbelin Concentration Camp in Ludwigslust, Germany towards the end of World War II. German civilians dig graves to bury dead bodies of the Wobbelin concentration camp victims. German civilians walking past graves, viewing the bodies. U.S. soldiers stand nearby.
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