Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California, during World War 2. Walter Elias Disney, the Founder of Walt Disney Animation Studios is seen pointing at a story board on a wall for a U.S. military training film for aviators dealing with various weather conditions. Walt Disney points to various drawings that are depicting weather patterns and military aircraft behaviors in different weather conditions. Story board sequence with title "The Warm Front" is seen. Walt Disney talks to the group of artists and editors seated and standing in the room. Portions of storyboard are seen for sequence entitled "Flight Problems." Artists and and at least one uniformed U.S. Navy officer gather to look at the storyboard and discuss.
Opening scene shows Russian soldiers in ruins of Stalingrad, with captured German combat films. A soldier hold up a film and looks at some of the images, upon which the scene changes to the captured German film, itself, showing German troops in the midst of destroyed and damaged Soviet buildings, during the Battle of Stalingrad, in World War 2. . A German field artillery piece fires, and black smoke rises from the area. A formation of German Messerschmitt Bf 109s is seen. Then bombs are shown dropping from a bomber (unseen). German Tiger tanks advance across a plain. German artillerymen look through binoculars. A periscopic binocular is on a tripod nearby. A German soldier, standing at a height, next to a smoke stack, observes huge fires burning in the distance. A German officer leads several hatless German soldiers. Scene switches to post-siege, as Soviet troops are dealing with aftermath. A mortuary team in protective clothing is disposing of the body of a fallen German soldier. A group of wounded Russian soldiers is being moved in a wagon, by medics. Civilians in Stalingrad read notices posted on a bulletin board. Soviet workmen probe rubble (perhaps for survivors). A buried shell explodes sending white smoke aloft. A destroyed anti-aircraft gun sits in rubble, with destroyed and damaged buildings in background. Skeletons of buildings are all that is left in some places. A hand written sign is posted addressed to "Mama!" (Addendum) Interestingly the narrator is speaking in Korean about the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, implying the source might be a Soviet-made propaganda film for ethnic Koreans.
Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet Union during World War 2. View from inside a German Army vehicle rolling down a road, as Soviet soldiers with arms raised in surrender appeal to be taken as prisoners of war. Soviet prisoners march on a road. Bombed out buildings of Stalingrad, Russia. Aerial view of destroyed Russian building. German soldiers search a civilian at gunpoint. Views of two dead Russian civilians.
Young Germans hold banners and sit on portion of a building. A crowd assembled in front of bombed out building in Germany, several months after the end of World War 2, in Europe. The crowd listens to a speech delivered by a man. a large sign near the speaker reads "Freedom." Elsewhere, a road sign reads 'You Are Now Entering Russian Occupied Zone'. Newspaper headlines read 'Reds Declare War On Japs'. The Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin examining official papers with the Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
U.S. 769th Field Artillery and the 761st Tank Battalions, as well as other African American units battling enemy together with other Army units in the European Theater during World War 2. Tanks advance along a rough terrain. Soldiers run across a field. Column of African American soldiers of 370th Infantry march along a road toward an attack in the Po Valley, supported by the 695th Field Artillery, who are seen loading and firing an artillery piece. African American soldiers of 761st Tank Battalion running interference for the 409th Infantry as it is seen crossing the dragon's teeth of the Siegfried Line in March of 1945. U.S. Army tanks fire at enemy targets on a field. Soldiers advance. African American soldiers of 761st Tank Battalion loading shells into a tank near battlefield and then participating in battle, firing from tanks during battle. Close view of African American soldiers with their tanks, and firing rifles.
Part 1 of 4 of film "Wings for this Man", also known as "Army Air Forces special film project 151" (narrated by Ronald Reagan) about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of African American pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps. They comprised the 332nd Fighter Group (nicknamed the Red Tails, because of distinctive red painted tails of their aircraft). They are see engaging a Luftwaffe formation of bombers and fighter escorts over Italy during World War 2. P-47 Thunderbolt fighters, of the 322nd Fighter Group, take off from an airfield and head out on morning patrol. They engage a formation of Heinkel He 111 bombers escorted by Me109 fighters. Gun camera footage is seen of the P-47s firing at German Me109s. Several are shot down. German pilot is seen parachuting from one. Afterwards, pilots of 332nd Fighter Group share some of their combat experiences. Views of the kinds of places and circumstances in civilian life from which pilots of the 332nd were drawn. Views of transition from civilian life to the military, including changing into uniforms and boarding a troop train in the snow. View from side of black locomotive and train moving at high speed with smoke pouring out. Montage of locomotive train images.
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