Civilians read news on billboard in Austria, right after end of World War 2. German civilians read newspapers on billboards. "Presse Dienst" written on the billboard in large letters. "OWB" in smaller letters in the middle of the billboard. People walk past billboard. Man reads newspaper.
Machine power in Canada and Germany in World War 2. Canadian Industry workers walk into a war production plant punching time cards as they enter. Men welding. Steel worker checking heat of hot steel with temperature-reading glasses. Workers in Canadian factory prepare machinery for war. 20th April 1939: Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany reviews German army in parade on his 50th birthday (Narrator incorrectly states the year as 1938, but Hitler's 50th birthday was in 1939 and these images are from the 1939 parade). Heavy breakthrough tanks roll by, followed by Army division assault tanks. Motorized troops march followed by Infantry and then parachute troops. Stuka Dive bombers fly overhead with Berlin Victory Column (Siegessäule) in the foreground. Hitler and others watch the flight.
German military mobilization, build up and preparation for World War II, and scenes of bombing and German attacks in World War 2. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in Berlin addresses crowd. In a German home, a German family supporting war economy and German war effort eats a one dish meal and children sit at table in a uniform with swastika (Hitler Youth). Table scraps and even human hair are collected for German pigs and placed in a specially designed box provided to German citizens. German soldier comes to house and collects money and a food pack from a German woman for the war effort. German boys with Hitler Youth take training in name of 'Strength through joy'. Boys of the Hitler Youth doing calisthenics and exercises. Boys practice at Gliding club throughout Germany. A glider taking off from a hillside with German boys receiving instruction. Hitler Youth boys seated on ground outdoors in front of a map as uniformed propaganda instructor explains how 'Germany must expand'. Officer shows world map to boys. Boys walk and perform manual labor with spade shovels on roads for 'Compulsory Labor System'. Armament or munitions factory for naval torpedoes. A German factory worker moving completed torpedoes for German Kriegsmarine Navy in an arms warehouse. Shirtless Hitler youth carrying a bomb to be loaded onto an aircraft. German Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber aircraft takes off. Interior view of a German bomber aircraft as German bombardier crew member sights his target. Aerial view of He-111 bombers in flight. Bombs away view of German bomber aircraft dropping bombs on a target city. British citizens running for cover during a blitzkrieg attack by German Luftwaffe. A woman runs with a young girl by her side during the blitz attack in the United Kingdom. Fire burning in a building with sign for "Colmans Mustard." A warehouse building demolished from bombing. Scenes of German military might: German Parachute troops dive from a formation of Ju 52 trimotor aircraft. Close-up aerial views of German paratroopers during the jump, including ground views of paratrooper landing. German tank driving through a forest, destroying and leveling trees in its path. German tanks crashing through a barn at a farm. A German tank smashing through the wall of a house. Point of view shots from artillery or tanks firing guns at enemy targets. German tank navigating down hillsides and over rough terrain. A German Army soldier leaping from an elevated position down toward camera position. German soldiers running and advancing on a battlefield, passing barbed wire, and firing flamethrowers as they move forward. Damaged house. Soldier fires and tanks go on hills. Soldiers fire and run through firing.
U.S. Marines of the 4th Division on Iwo Jima during World War 2. Several are seen loading a huge unexploded artillery shell onto a bomb disposal truck. They use the truck's built-in hoist and traveling crane to raise and move the shell into the truck . Closeup from rear as marines gently lower the shell onto sand bags in the truck bed. The marines then climb aboard the truck and hold onto its framework as drives drives slowly away. The truck is equipped with tire chains. View from rear as the truck drives toward a steep cliff on the shore of Iwo Jima.
Scene opens showing U.S. Marines from the 4th Division, in World War 2, sitting on the black sands of Iwo Jima as a Sherman tank drives past, behind them. Camera pans across the battle-scarred landscape of littered tree and shrubbery fragments. Next, Marines in a sandbagged position load and fire two shells,in quick succession, from an 81mm mortar. Momentary closeup of mortar crew and then from a few feet back as they fire another shell. A third marine, with them, communicates on a radio telephone. The marines continue firing mortar shells. (Note: The marine on the telephone has been identified as Denny Ray Leach, Age19, of Shreveport, Louisiana.)
U.S. marines of the 4th Division taking chow break in rugged terrain of Iwo Jima during World War 2. Closeups of marines eating and drinking in a fortified area. View from inside a bombed out bunker. Concrete reinforcing wires dangle silhouetted against the light sky. View from cliffside, down to beach where landing craft are visible. View of road and encampments. Mount Suribachi visible in the distance. Resupply operations being carried out on the beachhead. Landing craft infantry (LCIs) along the shore, including a damaged one sitting high and dry. Others are sunk. View back on the cliffside near the bombed out bunker.
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