I. "GALLANTRY REWARDED" Sir Andrew Clow gives the Indian Distinguished Service Medal (IDSM) to an aunt of Sepoy Wellington Mazaar of Shillong, a man who volunteered to get himself infected with the deadly disease Kala-Azar, but was later killed in service. The Maharajah of Patiala's brother grants Nand Singh VC three hundred rupees for life in Singh's home village of Bahadurpur. Scenes of crowds on rooftops cheering and Singh's father and mother.

II. "SIR SULTAN AHMED REVIEWS PUBLICITY PROBLEMS IN PEACE AND WAR" Sir Sultan Ahmed meets the Publicity Advisory Committee to recommend new popular digest of government reconstruction reports. Commentary notes that the Government is no longer a secret business and "doesn't want any more of those official reports that nobody can understand". Commentary mentions Sultan's support for similar digest for rationing and control.

III. "KAMAL RAM V.C. VISITS WOUNDED SOLDIERS IN HOSPITAL" Kamal Ram VC visits patients in hospital, including men of his own Brigade. Ram gives message over Hospital wireless. Ram visits another camp and receives the Commander-in-Chief's congratulations from General Birch.

IV. "WITH THE INDIAN DIVISIONS IN THE FALL OF FLORENCE" Allies prepare on hills outside Florence for attack on German lines. Commentary states that "the Germans called it a cultural treasure; named it an open city; then...they shelled it". Scenes of statue of the Italian nineteenth century freedom fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi: "if any man knew how to fight for liberty, it was Garibaldi". Allies advance down road as Nazis retreat. Bulldozers work outside city, "but if the debris had been the Florence Cathedral, the Germans would still have hailed it as a strategic victory. Civilised people the world over can be glad to have stopped the maddest chapter in the story of the Nazis' crimes before they ever got a chance to write it".

V. "AIR SUPPLY OVER BURMA" Commentary detailing the fighting in isolated pools in Burma, owing to the advent of air transport in modern welfare. "This is a battle field that depended on the air." Scenes of General Stilwell, the metre gauge railway of Myitkyina and the "ubiquitous jeep". Air supply pictures highlight need for landmarks for supply drops. Commentary refers process as being the "latest development in scientific warfare...and now war cannot be waged without it".

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Summary: film not viewed; synopses based on commentary sheets.