Italian propaganda film displaying prowess of Italian infantry against tanks, in live fire exercise, during World War 2. Camouflaged Italian troops in a field. Italian soldier emerges out of foxhole. View of narrow deep foxhole that can allow tank to pass overhead. Tanks approach the area. Camouflaged Italian troops throw hand grenades at tanks, from their foxholes. Explosions on sides of tanks. Italian soldier jumps on a tank and sabotages it from outside. The tanks's tread becomes separated. Tanks move through mined fields. Italian troops run towards tanks throwing hand grenades.
United States troops enter French African Port of Oran, Algeria, North Africa, during World War 2. U.S. soldiers seated inside an armored assault boat, advance towards Port Oran. Supplies and equipment brought to the beach area. United States medics treat an injured Vichy French prisoner. Civilians welcome U.S. troops as they move on streets of Oran. Troops honor a French soldier from a different war at a memorial. Vichy French soldiers (prisoners) seated on ground in groups. U.S. Army soldier sends telegraphic message to his regiment. Sign board read Saint Cloud. Troops move on road in jeeps and trucks. Two U.S. Army soldiers standing on top of a moving railroad car. U.S. Army truck driving by with large American flag on its front.
German troops move an artillery piece along a road in Europe during World War 2. Several German Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers attacking ground target. Closeup of bomb explosion. German Messerschmitt Bf 109s heading directly toward camera and passing close overhead. German gun crew loading and firing a 7.5 cm Gebirgs Kanone (Mountain Howitzer) from entrenched position. Shells exploding on hill. German gunners firing an MG42 machine gun. Shells exploding on a hillside. Infantry running towards a hillside, under shell fire.
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.
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