Military vehicles bring large crates containing gliders to Greenham Common, England during World War II. Soldiers open one of the large crates. An M2 Cletrac transports a large crate, passing by a Quonset hut. Soldiers assemble a Waco CG-4 glider. Mechanics work on the fuselage of a Waco CG-4 glider. They carry the cockpit part and attaches it to the fuselage. The men assemble the tail part. Mechanic uses a wrench.
Allied crewmen use binoculars to view the coast of the Cherbourg peninsula in Normandy during World War 2. The Allied invasion fleet approaching the peninsula the morning of D-Day in World War II. Allied warships firing rockets at enemy coastal defenses during invasion of France. Landing craft with U.S. soldiers and British soldiers heading toward shore during the assault. Landing crafts loaded with soldiers sailing towards the beachhead. Smoke rises from bombed enemy shore defenses. Allied assault troops landing on beaches of Normandy. Some of the soldiers fall as they are struck by German enemy fire. More troops disembark from landing craft and wade to reach the beachhead.
On the German Western Front in World War II a group of German troops bury the two-person crew of a French airplane that was shot down on September 11, 1939. The funeral, which takes place in Saarbrücken, is conducted with full military honors. The two French pilots were Lieutenant Jean Sueur and Captain Jacques Rosignol of 2 Escadrille de Reconnaissance 551. Each headstone is shown with the airman's hat on top. German soldiers place wreathes on the caskets and lower them into the ground. A large group of German soldiers, including a German military chaplain, are shown saluting the dead Frenchmen.
Hulk of ocean liner Victoria, a Bermuda liner in water. Wreckage of the ship float on water. A boat with divers and a smaller boat near it. Men with bags of explosives. A diver in the boat. He dives in water. The diver comes back to the boat. Blast in water.
Mix of actual footage and scenes with actors. Professor in laboratory extolling virtues of international research and researchers, in science and medicine. Voice-over with German accent speaks about inferior peoples and the scenes darken. Images of Nazi, Fascist, Japanese leaders and their followers including Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, Pierre Laval, Oswald Moseley, Fritz Kuhn, Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Rudolf Hess (or Heß), Julius Streicher, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and Benito Mussolini. Footage from World War I era shows rubble from bombing in French cities and towns, and French citizen refugees leaving homes with hand pulled wagon carts. German Kaiser Wilhelm II descends steps and reviews cheering German Army forces in 1914. French poster calls for military mobilization. Mobilized French soldiers march in France as citizens cheer them off to war. Explosions of shells on World War 1 battlefield. French "taxicab army" of French military vehicle line leaving Paris. Battles of Verdun and Chemin des Dames showing French artillery and French soldiers. David Lloyd George confers with Clemenceau. Close ups of General Foch and then of General Joffre. Armament factory in France manufacturing arms in World War 1. British battle scenes at Passchendale and Ypres. Scenes of U.S. battles at Chateau Thierry, the Argonne. U.S. Marines battling at Balleau Wood and Cantigny. Lloyd George greets citizens in England. Close up of British General Haig. American General John J Pershing greets French Generals in World War I. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is shown. World War II era events: Adolf Hitler addressing a crowd. Brownshirt SA soldiers and other German Army soldiers march and goosestep. Remilitarized Germany invades Poland in 1939, and then France in 1940. Hermann Goering reviews marching troops. Elevated, overhead view of German troops marching with hands raised in Nazi salute, and shadows of their salutes are cast on the ground in front of them as they march. Close up side view of Hitler giving Nazi salute to cheering troops. German artillery and railroad guns fired and tanks advance during invasion of France. French Army soldiers fighting the invading German soldiers; French soldiers fire artillery. French civilian women and children refugees flee in carts as Luftwaffe aircraft fire guns and strafe their path.
Abandoned industrial complex. Factories and warehouses. A Chinese soldier stands near sign reading: "U.N.R.R.A. It Is Belonged To Our Office. No Admittance To Anybody Or Armies To Enter." Damaged buildings in view. Several Americans pick their way through factory Interior which is littered with debris. and human remains. Two of them carry cameras. One, an American military photographer takes pictures. They also inspect huge parts of destroyed factory machinery. Two Americans discuss this and take notes. Pedestrians walk on a sidewalk. Many Chinese persons cook and eat in area containing wooden tables and chairs at edge of large open air marketplace. Food stalls and stalls of medicines in the area. A Nationalist Chinese flag flies from a small building in the area. A large group of Chinese children posing for the camera, with their teacher organizing them. Grownups are in the back of the group. Scene shifts to closeup of another group of Chinese people posing for the camera. View of a barricaded and sand-bagged official building. Two Chinese soldiers march past with shouldered rifles. Two civilians with back packs walk past. Closeup of a Chinese soldier during World War II. Glimpse of two armed soldiers guarding stacks of grain of flour. [Note: this film may contain segments that are unrelated and from different places and times.)
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