German soldier at a 12.8 cm Pak 44 anti-tank gun focused on a road in Ukraine, during World War 2. German infantry make their way through the Pripyat (Pripet) marshes. At times they traverse flooded areas. Most are armed with rifles and hand grenades. One carries a StG-44 assault rifle. They move cautiously. Some fire a trench mortar and its shell explodes nearby. A large formation of German bombers is seen high overhead. German Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers attack nearby Soviet positions and explosions are seen in large numbers.
Period reenactment. A Nazi German Brown Shirt paints the word 'JUDE' (Jew) and a Star of David on window glass of a closed shop. A comrade stands by holding a Nazi flag. Brown Shirt holds sign reading: Germans! defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews! to encourage boycott of Jewish businesses shortly before World War 2. Nazi Brown Shirts do the same with several other shops. Views inside and outside the shops as "Jew" notices are painted on shop windows.
Few C-47 tow gliders flying low over beachhead. View of 42nd Field Hospital U.S. where large number of wounded soldiers lying on litters surrounded by many field hospital tents, following D-Day Invasion in World War 2. Closeup view of Airborne patches of 101st and 82nd airborne units sewn to the arm sleeves of U.S. Army soldiers. Wounded soldiers on stretchers eat rations. (World War II period).
As film begins, elements of the U.S, ("Essex Troop") are seen passing under an overpass. The first is an M3 Half-track. Then several armored vehicles are seen from behind as they cross a pontoon bridge from Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry, to Seine Port, France, en route to Paris during World War 2. Soldiers, directing traffic across the bridge, stand beside it on grassy slope. Closeup of an M7 tank crossing the bridge. More views from the Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry side of the bridge as armored vehicles casually move across toward Seine Port. Front view of an M3 half-track heading toward the camera, crossing the bridge.
View of United States soldiers entering the city of Paris on military vehicles during liberation of Paris in World War 2. Cheering Parisian civilians welcome United States forces as they pass through streets. Locals from residential building wave soldiers and crowd on street look at a United states air force plane in sky. A wounded civilian is carried to ambulance. FFI members carry an injured woman though street. (World War II period).
Film opens showing General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking into a microphone, in France during World War 2 around time of liberation of Paris. Next, he is seen photographing a knocked out German StuG III tank destroyer and inspecting an overturned Tiger tank. Closeup of him examining the overturned tank. Next Eisenhower is seen in the back seat of a staff car, parked beside a large dwelling. A change of scene shows him strolling with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery across a pasture where British troops are encamped. The two leaders examine a map with other officers and continue walking together. Later, General Eisenhower photographs destroyed German artillery. While standing in a field littered with destroyed German military vehicles, he is approached by a British officer and British soldier. Eisenhower converses with the officer. An American Army photographer walks along a road littered with German wreckage, on his way to photograph General Eisenhower. Camera pans over damaged German artillery pieces and a destroyed Sd.Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. A, armored personnel carrier. As Eisenhower is about to board his staff car, two little French girls give him a bouquet of flowers. He thanks them and shakes their hands.
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