Dignitaries at Cairo Conference, Egypt. President Franklin D Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Ismet Inonu of Turkey seated on grounds of Mena House. President Roosevelt talks to President Inonu. Winston Churchill smokes a cigar. Roosevelt continues to talk to Inonu.
War production and manufacturing of ordnance in United States. President Franklin D Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt and Henry Kaiser in a car outside an ordnance factory, United States. A large crowd gathered around the car. President speaks to a man. A woman presents a file to the President.
End of World War II. A Soviet Army officer sits at a desk with a telephone in the background. Officer speaks.
'Eve of Battle' depicts the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. Slave labor from Nazi Germany-invaded countries construct Atlantic Wall. German artillery and fortifications in the Atlantic Wall. Nazi German soldiers marching in groups. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler shake hands with Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. Allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin sit together during the Tehran Conference in December 1943. Exiled Allied leaders such as General Charles de Gaulle of France, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and Dr. Edvard Beneš of Czechoslovakia inspect Allied troops. Various Allied troops from Poland, Norway, England, United States, and Czechoslovakia prepare to launch an invasion in France. Eisenhower along with other officers plans the European invasion. Allied ships and aircraft on their way to Europe. Allied bombers drop bombs over Nazi German U-boats. Naval battle begins and explosions occur, smoky docks. In England war supplies unloaded. Supplies include weapons, military equipment, and food. A tank and locomotive trains being loaded into a ship bound for Europe. Allied aircraft take off at night. A man directs an aircraft taking off. Allied bombers bombard German targets resulting into fiery flare in Europe. British children playing jump rope as a supply train pass by in the background. Tanks and fighter planes transported by train. Supply boxes unloaded and stacked for transport to the battle front.
Concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany, at liberation in World War II. Victims of the concentration camp who suffered Nazi atrocities. Former inmates sit on the camp grounds. Men appear feeble and starved. Men stand across the barbed wire fence at the camp. Deformed legs of a young boy. Two former prisoners lie down in sun near barbed wire fence. A banner reads 'All Polish greet the fraternal American Army' and American and Polish flags near the banner.
German Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe General Albert Kesselring in Italy during World War II. German map of Italy showing major cities such as Venice, Genoa, and Rome. Nazi General Kesselring inspects Italian soldiers. Soldiers lined up in a filed. General Kesselring greeted by other Italian officers.
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