Film opens with brief glimpse of Swedish soldiers (wearing M21 steel helmets) rushing to take positions in a defensive trench during World War 2. Scene shifts to infantry in combat gear, including shouldered blanket rolls, as they demonstrate ability to rapidly take up defensive positions. (Numerous automobiles parked in the background, indicating this is a demonstration.) Scene shifts to coastal defenses in Sweden, where heavy guns are seen firing from underground fortifications near a coastline. Swedish troops (wearing M37 steel helmets) firing a Browning M17 water-cooled machine gun from a protected position. Swedish troops (in M21 helmets) firing double-mounted Kulspruta m/36 water-cooled 8mm machine gun (modified Browning design dual mounted). Pattern of bullets splashing near floating targets offshore. Glimpse of a 29/33 M. 80mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun. Biplanes: Swedish J8 Gloster Gladiator MK I bi-wing pursuit aircraft seen flying low in formation over a grass field. Swedish T3 aircraft in formation. (These are Junkers Ju 86 K-13 aircraft built by SAAB, under license, and converted to torpedo bombers. They are flown by Swedish Wing F 17.) The pursuit planes stage mock attacks on the formation of T-3 bombers. Aerial closeups of a J8 in flight. Next, from very close up, one of the fuselage-mounted Browning .303 machine guns on a J8, is seen firing. Two of the bombers drop out of their formation and descend, as if they had been hit. (This is all a demonstration, carefully enacted.)
Activities of United States Navy salvage units on beachhead, Anzio, Italy during World War 2. 90 mm guns camouflaged at Army installations. Dugouts and tents in camp area. United States troops wash clothes in front of tents. Army cook rings dinner gong. Sailors stand in line for food. They sit at table in open area and eat their food. Sailors lay rifles and guns on table over a white cloth. Humorous sign at dining table says "Los Angeles city limits."
German troops with rifles and equipment march on a road in Warsaw, Poland during 1944 Warsaw Uprising of World War 2. German troops fire tanks. Soldiers fire machine guns from bushy area. German soldiers with panzerfaust anti tank weapons.l Explosions on ground. Soldier looks through binoculars. German Sturmgeschütz III (Stug III) Assault Guns firing. Russian tanks moving in distance. Close up views of destroyed Soviet tanks.
German Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 87 aircraft bombing suburbs of Warsaw in Poland during 1944 Warsaw Uprising of World War 2. German soldier looks at bombing raid from a bunker. Formation of German Ju 87 aircraft attack large buildings in suburbs of Warsaw. Explosions on two buildings targeted. Aerial closeup view of Ju 87 dive bombing intended target building. Massive explosion as building blows up. Fire and smoke and debris in the air.
Joseph Paul Goebbels addresses German workers, officials and some soldiers at Rhineland tank factory in Germany during World War 2. Posters on wall with German slogans. The Nazi symbol with 'Koln' written under it. (Speech possibly in Cologne?). Minister of propaganda Joseph Paul Goebbels speaks while large crowd of audience listens carefully to Propaganda Minister's speech. Scenes changes to exposition and review of a large number of German Tiger II tanks (King Tiger), being displayed for dignitaries to review. Closeup of tank commander standing up through open hatch in turret as his tank rolls by scores of other Tiger II tanks in formation on a large field.
Japanese attack on Palembang, Dutch East Indies, during World War 2. Japanese paratroopers debark from a plane before an attack on oil field in Palembang, Dutch East Indies. Fleet of Japanese aircraft in flight. Pilot and co-pilot seated inside the aircraft. Japanese paratroopers descend on ground with parachutes. Paratroopers run and gather their equipment after descending and engage in fire fights. A destroyed American aircraft is seen. smoke rising from Japanese bombardment of the city and oil processing installations.
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