Hitler Youth in Germany during World War 2. Boys are seen with boats on a lake. They pay out a line fastened to a glider designed to look like a German Lufthansa flying boat. A boy tows the glider out to the center of the lake using a rowboat. Person in the glider cockpit closes its hatch. On shore, the tow line is seen being rolled up rapidly on a wheel driven by a motor, causing the towed flying boat glider to gather speed across the lake, until it breaks from the water and soars into the air. The glider seen in flight, and then making a graceful landing on the lake.
A group of uniformed Luxemberger National Partei (LNP) members lead a parade across the Adolphe Bridge across the Pétrusse River, in Luxembourg, during World War 2. The State Savings Bank building is seen in the background. They are followed by large numbers of LNP men in dark trousers, white shirts, and dark ties, wearing swastika arm bands. Scene shifts to center of city where spectators line the sidewalks to watch the parade. The parade proceeds toward the Luxembourg Railway Station (bahnhof), where a small group of Luxemburger Volksjugend (LVJ), an organization similar to the Hitler Youth, are seen marching. Spectators acknowledge them with Nazi salutes. Scene changes to a courtyard where volunteer Luxembourg soldiers present arms as German Army officers descend steps from a building, to review them and contingents of LNP and LVJ. Senior German Nazi Party official, Gauleiter Gustav Simon, leads the reviewing group. A Luxembourg military band plays. Closeup of Luxembourg soldiers. Boys and girls of the LVJ youth render the Nazi salute.
German military officers early in World War 2. Field marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, Supreme Commander of the German Army, greets group of military officers, individually. Each steps forward, salutes, and shakes his hand. Afterwards he is seen chatting with the officers, smiling and laughing. Scene changes to German officers discussing battle plans in a field. German military officers watch demonstration of a large German artillery gun. Scene changes to France, where German military officers inspect ruined docks. They exit a large heavily damaged coastal bunker. They tour the battle damaged French facilities on foot and in cars. Wrecked British Expeditionary Force military vehicles (Lloyd Carriers) line the destroyed dockside.
The Italian infantry in Libya during World War 2. Italian light tanks, motorcycle troops and motorized infantry advance across the Libyan desert. Bersaglieri Motorcycle troops advance on a road before driving down a bank and going off-road. Two Italian CANT Z.1007 Alcione (Kingfisher) bombers fly through the air. Convoy of Lancia 3RO heavy trucks loaded with troops advance through the desert. Italian soldiers in a utility truck towing a howitzer. Soldiers in military trucks (Lancia 3RO 6-ton trucks). Bersaglieri on motorcycles speed through the desert. Italian M11/39 tanks driving, close-up of an M11/39 tank driving past the camera. Another shot of the Kingfisher bombers in flight. A fly-by shot of a village in the desert. A wall explodes. Smoke raises over a ruined building as another explosion kicks up a plume of black smoke. A building is blown up. Another building exploding, throwing debris into the air. A plume of smoke raising high into the air. A large explosion throwing lots of smoke, debris, and dust into the air. Burning building with little smoke. Burning building with lots of smoke. Panning shot of a ruined North African building. A sign board for the 'Telegraph Office' being pulled away to reveal a destroyed building..
Sailors on deck of a German "Raumboot" (AKA R-boat) minesweeper heading out on a mission with other minesweepers, during World War 2. . View of the wheel house with engine control being set to moderate forward speed and crew in engine room responding, one at throttle control and two monitoring valve lifters on the engine. On deck crew members heave mine sweeping gear overboard, aft, as another crewman at a winch, controls cable attached to the sweeping gear. views of cable playing out from the boat. view of other R-boats including aerial view of several sweeping in parallel formation. A Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (Stork) airplane, equipped with wheel pants, flies overhead. Views of the R-boats running in formation. Nazi naval ensign waving in breeze on foredeck of one boat. Action shots of R-boats running at high speed, generating bow waves and churning wakes.
Chaplain school at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts during World War 2. A sign reads 'Headquarters Chaplain school'. White and African American Chaplains come out of the school building and march. Chaplains perform a drill.
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