View of flak filled sky with tracer shells during Japanese kamikaze aircraft attacks on U.S. Navy warships in Pacific Ocean during World War II. Several kamikaze planes are hit and crash into sea. Scenes of U.S. Navy task force. Smoke columns rise.
Elevated view of early model Ford cars and pedestrian traffic in front of Billy Sunday's Tabernacle on Broadway at 168th Street, New York City. A YMCA cafeteria is seen next to the Tabernacle building.
A U.S. Army at snowcapped bunkers at the top of a hill during Korean War. Soldiers keep a watch from atop the hill and conduct routine patrols. One soldier showing a army jeep under a camouflage cover. Soldiers occupying their positions in tanks and a bunker respectively. 1951.
A burning ship broken from middle, sinking in the ocean off the coast of New Jersey after being hit by German submarine torpedo attack in World War 2. The ship gives away immense cloud of smoke. A patrolling airplane passes by the ship. Another ship passes from very near to the sinking ship. The ship ultimately gets below the water and only the smoke can be seen on the horizon.
Soldiers of the 221st Signal Company Vietnam have military payment certificates (MPC) exchanged at their headquarters in Long Binh Vietnam as part of a country wide general order. Soldiers in a line. A soldier with a typewriter creates a receipt. The soldiers with old (MPC) currency notes takes the receipt and proceeds towards the next officer. A soldier counts his notes at the typist's desk. (Vietnam War period).
This film contains numerous views of citizens in postwar Germany interposed with flashbacks of Nazi activities seen in Germany during the war. At start, film shows drawing of U.S. soldier superimposed on map of Germany. Armed U.S. troops, early in the occupation of Germany, proceed with caution along an alleyway, when an explosion occurs in a nearby building. German citizens going about their daily affairs in a village. Many patronize an outdoor market. Flashback to Germany during World War 2, with view from a high overlooking building, of troops marching along a street below. Closeup of German SS Guards marching in abbreviated goose step along a street. Glimpse of civilians in German city. German storm troopers marching at the Nazi Rally grounds in Nuremberg. More views of citizens on the streets of a city in postwar Germany. Glimpse of several German Nazi officials meeting together. A group of German civilian men relaxing in a courtyard. A town decorated with Nazi flags and banners. Views of ordinary Germans: a doctor, a technician, a clock maker, a postman, a farmer, a woman housekeeper, women toy makers, barbers, cooks, and dockworkers, all at work during the Nazi wartime era. A gathering of Hitler Youth at a rally. Closeups of young boys playing band instruments, then, marching through a gateway labeled: "Nordmarch Lager 1935," and parading through the streets of a town. A different group, dressed in black uniforms, and carrying backpacks, as they march in a town. Members of the Reich Labor Service marching with shovels on streets and during a rally at the Nazi grounds in Nuremberg. Several cartoon drawings accompany messages for U.S. troops on postwar occupation duty in Germany. They remind the soldiers that they are standing guard, but they must obey local laws, respect local customs and respect property rights. Also that they are not to ridicule or argue with local people. They are cautioned not to make friends with German citizens, but to be cautious and suspicious. Views of German people socializing, and gathering at outdoor markets. Views of German men, women and children in various activities, in their homes and outside. Narrator tells U.S. soldiers not to fraternize with the German people.
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