President Harry Truman in Germany. President Truman drives away in a staff car from the Gatow Airport in Germany. A truck loaded with United States soldiers drives past. A band and men of the 2nd Armored Division stand in formation as the President reviews them. Soldiers salute. A long line of cars as President Truman drives off to the airport. (World War II period).
Scenes following the April 1945 destruction of the Tangermünde Bridge over the River Elbe, by retreating German forces in World War 2. View of damaged Tangermunde Bridge. Defeated German soldiers and German civilians walk along the bridge, moving westward into American and British controlled areas, and fleeing advancing Soviet forces (fearing their retribution). Civilians climb the bridge carefully with their luggage, having to hold twisted steel girders with no flooring beneath. Wounded German walks carefully on the bridge. U.S. Army soldiers checking papers of German citizens crossing the bridge.
United States 2nd Infantry Division soldiers near Missy-Aux-Bois, France during World War I. The soldiers fire rifles from trenches. A piece of cloth spread over bushes in the background.
Soviet forces break through German lines on Eastern front during Vistula-Oder Offensive of World War II. An animated map with arrows showing Soviet forces attacks against German forces in region from Warsaw and 100km South, to Radom. Soviet artillery and rocket batteries firing during battle. Aerial view of a formation of Soviet Ilyushin II-2 Sturmovik aircraft in flight. Bomb explosions and smoke shrouded battlefield. Soviet artillery fired. Views of burning buildings. Dead German soldiers on the ground and wrecked German artillery. Soviet tanks and infantry advance through dense smoke. Heavy Soviet guns fire; views of resulting explosions in distance. Soviet and Polish soldiers embrace in front of Polish National flag. Close-up views of solemn faces of Soviet and Polish soldiers during a flag ceremony. Polish soldier salutes the flag with two-finger salute.
Wreckage and ruined buildings in Warsaw, Poland following liberation of the city by Soviet forces in World War 2. Destroyed Warsaw streets with damaged buildings. Rubble and devastation everywhere. Damaged churches. A sign "Adolph Hitler Platz". A wrecked streetcar in foreground. A sign in German on a trolley car. Views of damaged monuments. Rubble everywhere. Polish natives. Warsaw inhabitants walking back to their ruined city. A Russian soldier embraces a young woman. Soviet Army color guard march through crowds in Warsaw. View of a Polish Army officer. The cheering crowd. A Polish girl in the crowd. Red army troops pass through the crowds. Ruined buildings in background destroyed by Nazi German forces. Soviet Russian planes fly over the city.
Allied invasion at Salerno, Italy, during 2nd World War. Scenes of U.S. Sherman tanks, military vehicles and troops, moving easily through Sicily. Animated map depicts allied invasion routes from Bizerte, North Africa, to two points on opposite sides of Italy mainland. Convoys emerge from smoke screens in bay of Salerno, Italy. Allied warship creating heavy black smoke screen. Decks of LSTs crammed with trooops and vehicles. Allied warships bombard Salerno coastline. Commandos, Rangers and Seabees, in first assault wave are targets of German guns and dive bombers. Pontoon boat dropped from LST, with 35 Seabees aboard, strikes a mine, and is destroyed, setting off conflagration on the LST. Other LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) discharging vehicles to the beach over floating causeways, under enemy fire. Destroyed U.S. Sherman tanks, vehicles and a U.S. P-40 aircraft , litter the beach. A Seabee uses semaphore flags to direct an LST to beach area. Seabees build shelters for war materiel and dressing stations where allied wounded are treated. Seabees continue to unload supplies to beachhead. Brief view of Lieutenant General Mark Clark, 5th Army commander, on the beachhead. Allied casualties being tended. Stretcher bearers carry wounded. Allied troops advancing on roads in Italy. Admiral Moreell, chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks, concludes narration of the Seabee documentary, from his office in Washington, DC
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