Film made in 1946 recounts use of RADAR in World War 2. Air raid sirens sounding in London, England,1940, during Battle of Britain. Air raid warden helps people to shelters during blitz bombing run by German Luftwaffe aircraft. German He 111 bombers in formation overhead. Woman scoops up child. British gunners man a 3.7 inch antiaircraft gun. Farmer rides horse-drawn plow. RAF airman rings alert bell that reads: "Don't come and tell.Ring this like hell." RAF pilots scramble to their Spitfire fighter planes and take to the air from a British airbase or aerodrome. German He 111 bombers being intercepted.Wreckage of German bombers. Evening views of London. Prime Minister Winston Churchill contributing to a war drive and receiving a pin from a woman. He doffs or tips his hat. Technician using a slide rule. Early British radar antenna tower. A U.S. P-38 aircraft in flight. Animated diagrams explaining how radar works. Radar operators at their screens receiving radar transmissions. U.S. Army soldier operating antiaircraft radar in the field. Antiaircraft gun firing and downing an airplane. Artllerymen decorate gun barrel with symbols for enemy aircraft downed. A U.S. B-29 bomber in flight with bomb bays open. Bombardier with bomb sight having radar and optic options, using radar to sight target. Bombs away view of bombs falling from aircraft through clouds. A U.S. P-61 night fighter aircraft equipped with airborne radar. Hand of pilot of P-61 pressing button to fire on enemy aircraft at night. A C-47 transport aircraft flying in poor visibility makes a ground controlled approach and landing enabled by radar. A U.S. Navy F6F landing with radar help, on an aircraft carrier. A U.S. battleship. Sailors quickly get up from sleeping bunks responding to battle stations at night. Radar antenna rotating on a U.S. warship. Naval guns firing at night. U.S. heavy cruisers bombarding a shoreline. A submarine underway submerged. Navy ship tracking enemy submarine. Destroyer firing depth charges. A PBY Catalina flying over a convoy of ships.
German artillerymen operate an 80cm German artillery rail gun ("Gustav Geschutz" ) in siege of Sevastopol, Crimea, in World War 2. Gun is first seen being transported and positioned on rails. Scenes of actual loading, aiming and firing with gun crew in shirtsleeves. German crews are seen handling 600mm shells for a German mortar ("Karl"). Scenes of mortar firing. Siege gun firing from camouflaged position with gun crew holding their ears. Interspersed scenes of 80cm guns and 60cm mortars firing.
Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Nazi German foreign minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop greets Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary, upon his arrival in Salzburg during World War 2. German officials greet Horthy with a Nazi salute. Next, the conferees are seen within the Schloss Klessheim (Klessheim Palace, Kleßheim 1a, 5071 Wals, Austria) where they would, ostensibly, negotiate the German occupation of Hungary (Operation Margarethe). Discussions commence after dignitaries enter the conference hall. General Döme Sztójay, Hungarian ambassador to Germany is present at the conference.
A german soldier beside a 12.8 cm Pak 44 anti tank gun set up to command a road on the Eastern front in World War 2. German troops moving through Pripyat (Pripet) marshes in Ukraine. They slog through trenches containing several inches of water. They move into a wooded area.The ground is snow-covered. They carry rifles and hand grenades. One is seen carrying a StG-44 assault rifle.They all hit the ground and look alert. An officer looks ahead through binoculars. Soldiers in a trench fire a mortar. Its shells are seen striking target nearby. A large formation of German bombers, heading toward Soviet targets, is seen in flight overhead. A flight of German Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers arrives to provide close air support, attacking Soviet positions nearby.
Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy, in uniform of an admiral, detrains and is greeted by Nazi German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and other German officers in World War 2. All of them walk into a room of the Schloss Klessheim, outside of Salzburg, Austria, to discuss the occupation of Hungary. View of Hungarian Ambassador Döme Sztojay. Group of Officers look at a document. Other dignitaries can be seen in the palace rooms.
View of a campaign map of Italy during World War 2 . Destruction of town of Cassino after Allied bombings. Street sign of Cassino is shown. German soldiers ride motorcycle with side car. German sign warns of enemy and indicates to proceed without lights. General Albert Kesselring confers with German troops in streets of Cassino. German sign warns against parking due to artillery fire. United States Army Air Force bombers drop bombs over the city. German troops take cover in remains of destroyed buildings. Artillery fire starts. Military tanks on the streets. Views of heavy blasts and huge clouds of smoke rise in streets. American General Mark Clark seen in tank and British and American allied troops seen firing artillery and small arms, and battling building-to-building against German forces in Cassino.
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