Russian troops on the Western Front during World War I. Russian soldiers march along a field on the front. The soldiers march and pass in a review. French General Joseph Joffre reviews Russian troops.
Peaceful scenes of pre-war England, showing a church with sheep grazing on its lawn, and a college building with ivy growing on the walls. In contrast, explosion and results of German bombing is shown, with buildings collapsing and ruined from the German blitz over England. A long line of Chinese soldiers marching along the Great Wall of china. Shadows of three Japanese bombers flying over Chinese landscape. On May 4, 1942, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek decorates American fliers who made the first attack on Tokyo in World War 2. Wearing a Chinese decoration around his neck, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who led that raid by U.S. B-25 bombers from the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, poses with Madame Chiang and others of his group. Scenes of Moscow, Soviet Russia, including a T-70 light tank moving rapidly along a city street. A Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber taking off in a snow storm. U.S. troops on a halftrack in North Africa. British artillerymen firing a 25 pounder in the desert. Glimpses of smoke rising from enemy strikes at cities in England, Russia, and China. Scenes of destruction from bombing. Brief street scenes of unharmed and intact towns and cities in the United States, including brief New York City scene of pedestrians and traffic in Times Square. Defense workers in America going to work at Ranger Aircraft Engines factory (later part of Fairchild Aircraft and Engine Corporation), and a star flag showing war service by worker families. Farmers in Western U.S. harvesting grain. Railroad trains and river barges carrying harvest from U.S. farms. Herds of cattle and sheep being raised for the war effort in Western U.S. Aerial view of orchards and farms in America. A mining bucket filled with iron ore. Barge carrying the ore. A steel mill in operation. Scrap iron being recycled. View from production floor of U.S. bomber aircraft being built in a defense plant. Countless freight cars in a railroad marshaling yard at a port, where a tug boat and a freighter are seen in the water. War materiel piled up at the port. A convoy of supply ships underway.
French 320mm Railway Gun on the Western Front. Soldiers move shells forward to load the gun. Gun is fired and recoils along the track. French troops move out of trenches. Blasts raise clouds of smoke on battlefield. A wounded man carried out of trench. French firing 155mm howitzer. Wounded soldier helped by other soldiers while bombardment continues. Troops moving out of trenches. Destruction in the area shows rubble. A battlefield cemetery. A wounded American soldier loaded in truck. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
German Tiger II, Panther and Pz.IV tanks, trucks and infantry equipped with panzerfausts on the Western Front. Camouflaged tanks and jeeps pass along the road. Horse carriages on the road. German troops walk with artillery. Soldiers camouflaged. Soldiers lie on ground. Soldiers fire. The troops walk on hilly terrain. The troops communicate through radio. StuG III on ground. A rocket barrage is laid down. (World War II period). Note: this content can also be seen with German narration in clip 65675080268
Allied soldiers advance along a battlefield on the Western Front during World War I. Smoke rising from the battlefield. Aerial view of the battlefield. The Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Soldiers advance along the battlefield. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment. Dead soldiers and dead mules on the field.
The Aisne-Marne Offensive on the Western Front during World War I. German shells explode on U.S. lines. Smoke rises from an explosion in the background. Dead German soldiers and equipment lying on a field. U.S. soldiers look at German equipment lying on the ground.
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