German map shows cities in Poland and Baltic countries such as Warsaw, Riga, and Tallinn. German General Hermann Balck with his aides on the Eastern Front during World War II. Nebelwerfer rockets firing at enemy positions. Smoke rises from fire in battlefield. German Panzer tanks and artillery on patrol in the streets of the Praga district of Warsaw, Poland during the abortive uprising against German garrison in the city (led by General Tadeusz Komorowski also known as General Bór-Komorowski, or as General Bor). Camouflaged German tank firing at Polish Resistance. Rocket guns firing at a city. A soldier uses binoculars. Smoke rises far behind haystacks. Warsaw after German bombardment. Smoke rises from destroyed buildings in Warsaw. German soldier advances with basketful of grenades, walking over rubble. A German soldier sprints during street fighting. German troops engage in street fighting with Polish Resistance Movement in Warsaw. Fighters in flight before a cloud of smoke rises above Warsaw. Heavily bombed buildings. German soldier aims his gun while hiding behind a wall. Soldiers firing of antitank guns point blank at building in city. German soldiers using flamethrowers and mortars during the Warsaw Uprising.
A U.S. Navy Destroyer escorts landing craft infantry toward invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. More landing craft infantry are seen in the distance. A U.S. cargo ship, most likely an attack transport ship, is seen with the flotilla. A landing ship, dock (LSD) is shown sailing close by.
Clip begins showing four U.S. military personnel: A U.S. Army Brigadier General, a Navy officer, an Army soldier, and an Army officer. They are aboard a ship underway in the English Channel for the D-Day invasion of France in World War 2. The camera moves back and forth between the left two men and the right two men, before focusing on the left two men at the end. In the final moments of the clip, the Navy officer points to something off in the distance.
A Grumman J2F Duck seaplane (amphibious biplane) is shown flying overhead in a diving run during World War 2. View of fighter airplanes flying from right to left in front of a large mountain. Closeup of U.S. Navy Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber aircraft making a low pass and dropping a Mk XIII torpedo during practice runs. Several views of Mark 13 aerial torpedoes being dropped from aircraft, as seen from a U.S. ship in the Pacific.
A U.S. Navy PBY Catalina Seaplane taxis on a runway, with a few American sailors walking and running beside it. The flying boat has the identification 14-P-7 clearly shown on its side. The wreckage of an aircraft is shown, likely damaged in the Japanese bombings on Pearl Harbor, and few dozen American sailors lift a large airplane wing up into the pile of wreckage. A U.S. Douglas SBD Dauntless fighter airplane takes off from an aircraft carrier with two smaller ships in the distance. The SBD Dauntless has the label S2 on its side.
Two escaped U.S. Army Air Force aircraft pilots, shot down in enemy territory in December 1943 during World War II, speak with U.S. officers after their rescue in 1944. Both pilots are dressed in civilian clothing, and one wears improvised shoes. (Footage shot around the time of the Battle of Cisterna).
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