Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Billows of smoke filled with cinder and ash rise from the crater of the volcano. Huge columns of smoke spread across the sky. Children clear the road. A view of the Coast of Salerno. Black ash on the beach. Roof tops of the houses are blackened. Ash covers and ruins crops. Villagers move through streets with umbrellas to protect them against falling ash. Vehicles on the street. Footprints of a man as he walks across a field of ash. Ruined crops deep in ash. A man extracts potato from ashes. Horse driven carriage on the street.
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) John Edgar Hoover talks about enemy agents and spies in the U.S. at the time of World War II. Two officers sit in an office. German and Japanese suspects in the United States. A German agent on a street. A Japanese spy takes photographs from a bridge. Purported Nazi German agents arriving as tourists in the United States. German and Japanese diplomats greeting one another and exchanging a Nazi salute. The conference room of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Officers discuss the activities of Nazi German secret agents and Imperial Japanese agents operating in South America. Nazi signs on an animated map show the advance of German agents in areas such as Patagonia. Narrator states that Nazi German and Imperial Japanese agents setup radio listening posts in multiple locations in South America to track and report on U.S. shipping in the world's oceans. Animated map shows settlements northward migration through Brazil of "more than 300,000 Japanese colonists". Animation shows expansion of German airline services through South America from Argentina to Colombia.
World War II cartoon character Private Snafu sorts shoes in the QM (quartermaster) in the United States. A sign reads 'Q.M. Depot, Shoe Division'. He arranges the shoes. He envies his brothers for their easy jobs. Technical Fairy, First Class arrives and shows him the job work of his brothers. One brother faces many trials as a farmer. He has a poultry farm. A hen wants food. Private Snafu's brother has to take care of the eggs. Another brother serves as a quarry for war dog training. A sign reads 'Training Center'. Dogs run behind him. Private Snafu then realizes the importance of his work.
Posthumous recognition given to Lieutenant General Lesley James McNair in the United States during World War II. Past events show him at various stages of his carrier. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Lesley James McNair stands with troops near an aircraft. He sits in a car. He trained army officers as he served as the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Ground Forces.
An aerial view of the cities and villages of Normandy in France soon after the D-Day invasion of World War 2, but after Allied forces had moved further east toward Germany. German installations are bombed and strafed. Allied troops fire artillery. Smoke rises up due to explosions. Soldiers walk in a street. Rubble on the street. An allied aircraft in flight. Smoke rises up as the German installations are bombed. Street fighting in Normandy. Nazi soldiers surrender after street fighting in Cherbourg. Buildings in the background. German prisoners are marched. Wounded soldiers. Civilians gather as a United States flag is raised in Cherbourg. Civilians cheer as the Germans are defeated. A man gives a speech. (World War II period).
A farm in Iowa, United States. A portrait. Signs read 'Dallas Center' and 'Oskaloosa'. Several men walk and talk on a road early in the morning. Newspaper and milk bottles delivered outside a house. Hands of clocks show the time as 4:45. Routine work at a farm in Iowa. Th owner of the farm comes and wakes up his son. The boy gets up from the bed and washes himself. He comes and sits at a dining table. His father and sister eat their breakfast. The mother brings breakfast. The son feeds the hogs on the farm. The wife of the owner tends the poultry. She feeds the hens. The owner talks about labor shortage . He plows the farm. His daughter drives a tractor.
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