Prototype (XF2D-1) of the U.S. Navy F2H McDonnell Banshee jet fighter plane during an introductory flight over Missouri in January, 1947. The aircraft carries the name Banshee on its forward fuselage, and identification number, etc. on its empennage.
Film opens showing heavy artillery firing at nighttime. Marshal of the Soviet Union, and Chief of the Soviet General Staff, Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky, is seen alone in a room, reviewing a map. He uses a pair of dividers to make a measurement. Next, antiaircraft guns fire at night, as many searchlights point up in the night sky. A view of the Kremlin. A formation of Cossack cavalry crossing a bridge in winter. Snow on the bridge and surrounding area. A formation of soviet troops,dressed in cold weather gear, marches single-file across snow and ice. Soviet Army tractors towing 152mm howitzer field guns on a snowy road. A contingent of Soviet soldiers, in white helmets, marching toward the front, in the snow, followed by some horse-drawn equipment on sleighs or sleds. Artillery tractor towing a 152mm howitzer field gun. Open trucks carrying Soviet solders. More views of Soviet troops headed to the front, in the snow, passing residential buildings on the way. Soviet soldier looking through binoculars as German Junkers 88 bombers fly overhead. Soviet gunners employing several different types of antiaircraft guns. A Soviet armored car moving across the snow, and a tank destroyer moving near woods. A downed German bomber with dead crew member lying in the snow, nearby. Soviet pilots on a flight line looking over their orders. A line of fighter planes is parked on the snow in the background, including Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 and other aircraft. Soviet airman in gunner's canopy on a bomber. Bombs being loaded and fused aboard Soviet bomber. Machine gun belt ammunition being loaded on an Ilyushin IL 4 aircraft. A flight line of IL 4 bombers parked in the snow. Two Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bombers in formation. Bombs falling through the air and exploding on snowy targets below. More Pe-2 bombers and bombs falling. View from underneath an artillery spotters balloon as it is retrieved by Soviet soldiers. Views of various pieces of Soviet artillery in the snow. Slate announces "December 6, 1941, Moscow strikes back!" (during Battle of Moscow in World War II). Various views of Soviet artillery being fired and shells exploding. Glimpse of the artillery spotter and balloon. A soldier lying frozen in the snow. Countless scenes of all kinds of Soviet artillery firing from various places interspersed with views of mounted Cossacks moving along a snowy trail in a wooded area. Soviet troops heading to tanks and other armor, hidden in the woods. They climb aboard them. Senior Soviet officers confer in the field. Air crews boarding IL 4 bomber aircraft and starting engines. Bombs exploding. Tanks moving. (One knocks down a tree.) The bombers taking off. Soviet soldiers watching.
Gun camera film from a P-51 Mustang fighter plane of the US Army Air Forces attacking a German Messerschmitt Bf 110 aircraft during World War 2. The American fighter plane is piloted by 2nd Lieutenant A. Robertson of 362nd Squadron, 357th Fighter Group. A hit on the on the German aircraft produces a bright flash of explosion.
From "The Battle of the Somme." British gunners bombarding German forces with 9.2 inch howitzers, during the Battle of the Somme, in World War 1. A large gun crew, of about a dozen soldiers,work together coordinating the loading and firing of a 9.2 inch howitzer. Shells for the gun are piled around the emplacement. Many infantry stand in background watching the howitzer in action. Smoke rises from shell strikes in the nearby German lines.
Events related to the Nuremberg Trials held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. Shows two guards standing outside the 'Judges Room'. Judges from Allied nations seated around a table. On 1st October 1946, judges give their final verdict. Scenes from the court room. Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, President of the tribunal states the final verdict. Majority of the accused Nazi criminals are given death sentence, some of them given imprisonment and only a few are found not guilty. Multiple Nazi leaders are shown in the courtroom and in flashback scenes from the World War 2 years, including Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel (both also shown at unidentified signing ceremonies), Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk, Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Albert Speer, Konstantin von Neurath, Arthur Seyss-Inquart. Many flashback scenes show scenes of Nazi activities, Nazi atrocities, and the holocaust during World War 2 including: Boycott of Jewish shops and stores in 1930s, beating, dragging, and expulsion of resident Jews from ghettos, Nazi rallies with crowds giving Nazi salutes, book burning, massed overcrowded prisoner encampments, emaciated Concentration camp victims, nurses and doctors aiding starving and liberated concentration victims, gestapo dragging a man across a street, bin of gold teeth of murdered concentration camp victims being poured out for display, a German ship being launched, Erich Raeder meeting with Japanese military leaders or political leaders from Imperial Japan, and talking to Adolf Hitler; Hitler youth in training; Nazi slave labor workers at terraced hillside mines digging and doing mining operations; interior of a Nazi German submarine; German industrial worker at a steel furnace in a munitions war production factory. View of prison cells at Nuremberg Prison just north of Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, where some Nazi criminals were kept during the trials. View of exterior prison cell door of Hermann Goering. A guard patrols the roof of the Nuremberg Prison.
Development of air power. U.S. Navy Lieutenant Al J. Williams in the United States. He holds the official world speed record at 266.6 miles an hour. A United States Navy Curtiss R2C-1 racer parked on an airfield. Lt. Williams in the cockpit of the aircraft. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral W. A. Moffett shakes hands with Lt. Williams. Cameramen and officials in the background. The Curtiss R2C-1 racer flies past and overhead around a pylon. The aircraft comes in for a landing.
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