A research film in which 'mole', an automatic detonator, is tested for effectiveness in disabling railroad trains when a train suddenly enters darkness as in a tunnel. Railroad train approaching camera position near track. Point of view shot from left side of railroad locomotive train as it approaches and enters a tunnel. A train passes through tunnel. Working and components of mole explained. Components include photoelectric cell, amplifier and a detonator. Working of mole explains where to place explosive, why and how to prepare it. Charge is placed on a railroad car. This car is attached at the end of train. A train moves. Train car damaged after detonating mole. Men at railroad car examine. Charge placed by men on train. Explosion and reaction of train is tested. Damage is examined. Next test shows 'linear shaped charge' with explosive and bracket to hold it, demonstrates how to secure charge to bracket, bracket to train car and where to place components of mole. Explosion on train. Damage in detail is examined. World War 2 period.
German troops awarded medals in Paris, during World War 2. Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) in Place de L'Etoile, Paris. German soldiers salute Tomb of Unknown Soldier. Crowd lined up. German troops receiving medals. Troops giving salute after receiving medals. View of Avenue Champs-Élysées. Troops parade along Avenue. Arc de Triomphe in the background. Troops pass in review before reviewing German officer, Lieutenant General Kurt von Briesen. Briesen on horseback. Band plays. Horse drawn artillery pieces on Avenue Foch. Bugle corps on horses.
An aerial view of North African coast of Morocco during World War 2. French fliers in aircraft above waters off Morocco. Aerial views of breakwater. An Italian submarine is spotted, on the surface, inside the three-mile limit of French Moroccan coast. A French destroyer races to intercept the errant submarine before it can retreat beyond the 3-mile limit. However the submarine manages to safely exit French Moroccan waters.
A Royal Air Force base in England during the Battle of Britain in World War 2. Spitfire aircraft parked in background. An antiaircraft gun crew moves into their sandbagged position and maneuvers their gun about.
German bombers fly in formation with flak from British antiaircraft fire exploding below them during Battle of Britain in World War 2. Several flights of British Royal Air Force Spitfire fighters take off from airfield. A spitfire lands. Pilot poses with two thumbs up.
British Royal Air Force ground crews rearm a Spitfire aircraft during the Battle of Britain in World War 2. They feed belts into guns through access panels under wings and then place ammunition boxes into the wings. View Pilot's parachute sitting on empennage of a parked Spitfire aircraft. A partial glimpse of 66th Squadron's "LZ" code appears forward of the RAF roundel on its fuselage. Some white spots on leading edge of vertical stabilizer might be evidence of repair. But overall, the empennage does not appear damaged. Two other Squadron spitfires come in to land.
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