Documentary titled 'One Millionth Security Check'. A woman representative of The Social Security Board at a house in Parma, Ohio. She gives the check to Mrs. Mary Thompson, the widow house mistress. Mrs. Thompson shown holding a number of Social Security checks. Two children of Mrs. Thompson, a girl and a boy playing with a wagon in garden outside the house.
Newsreel titled 'Favorite Wins Trot Classic'. Civilians wearing hats move in to witness The Corn Tassel Derby harness horse racing in Goshen, New York. Horse race starts with participants giving tough competition to each other. Various trotting carts on dusty tracks during successive laps of the race. Yankee Maid wins the race and spectators rise from their chairs to cheer the winner.
Civilians including men, women and children killed by Nazi soldiers in Stavelot, Belgium during World War II. Caskets with the dead bodies. Lumps of dead bodies at a place of shelter blown by Nazis (the civilians had taken refuge in basements and the Nazi soldiers had thrown grenades into the basements). Frozen dead bodies of women and small children. A woman weeps. Common grave for burial of all victims. Man brings stiffened dead body of a small child. A man checks names of the dead and priest says last prayers before burial.
Opens showing maps of German and Japanese occupied territory during World War 2. Camera zooms in on the Japanese territory and shows points of Allied pressure against it during the war. Camera zooms in on German occupied areas and shows Allied pressure from The Atlantic and Mediterranean. View from above of formations of C-47 transport aircraft flying over water. (It may involve an invasion rehearsal, because the planes are not in D-Day stripes.) Formations of boats leaving long wakes as viewed from aircraft overhead. U.S. paratroopers relaxing inside a C-47 aircraft. They are alerted and don their helmets preparing to jump. Formation of C-46 Commando transport aircraft viewed from below. A paratrooper hooked up to a static line inside a transport plane. View from one of the aircraft in a formation dropping paratroopers over desert area. Their black chutes opening below the aircraft. Occasional white chutes seen. White parachutes seen from above as they descent toward agricultural land below.
U.S. Army Waco CG-4A combat gliders viewed from the ground where others have already landed, in France on D-Day during World War 2. One lands successfully. Another looms overhead near trees, makes a landing, and while sliding a long way to a stop, noses over completely and is destroyed.
Film opens showing air combat scenes from tun camera of several American fighter planes shooting down German warplanes. Some are high altitude encounters with aircraft leaving contrails as they fly. Gun camera views from American planes strafing German airfields and destroying aircraft on the ground. Strafing over lines of communication like roads, highways, canals and railroads. Locomotives struck and huge clouds of smoke issuing from them. Military fortifications being strafed and smoke rising. A huge explosion from a train being strafed. View from American fighter aircraft passing through ball of fire from explosion during strafing. Formation of American B-26 Marauder bombers flying through Flak clouds. One is seen flying level in flames. Another is seen from below. It is in D-Day striped paint and its left engine has been hit and partly torn off. Next, it is seen rolling over and headed down with flames and smoke coming from its left side.
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