 airfields in India, United Nations forces are preparing bases from which to speed the flow of supplies to Allied armies gathering in the Far East. Working with primitive tools, natives from nearby villages quickly learn to construct airstrips capable of handling the biggest bombers. They work side by side with the men. Soon they see the great warbirds roar in. In New Guinea, General MacArthur with Generals Kruger and Rupertus inspects new positions one from the Japs in the north, central and southwest specific. In Burma, British and Indian troops advance against Japanese patrols, open up with artillery on enemy positions in the hills above the Chidwin River. Red action in the Far East has the Japanese on the defensive. Members of a Sydney Australia College of Physical Culture put on a show of mass calisthenics for an appreciative audience at a military hospital. Performing with rhythm and precision, the girls bring a light, cheerful note to wounded soldiers convalescing in the land down under. In Texas, home of the Badget Quadruplets, the famous little girls prepare to celebrate their fifth birthday. First, they bake a birthday cake. Then, being good housekeepers, they clean up the kitchen. Mother takes the cake from the oven and magic, even the candles are lighted. In their own bedroom, the four little girls dress up for the party. Joyce and Geraldine ready for the time of their young lives. At an Army Navy Recreation Center, they share their birthday with men in the service. This year, their best birthday gifts are war bonds. Newly won airfields in southern Italy, United States bombers escorted by fighter planes attack German supply lines feeding Nazi armies around Rome. Target for today, the great marshaling yards outside the Italian capital. With Allied air power controlling the skies over the Mediterranean, the eyes of the United Nations are upon the fifth and eighth armies gathered before Rome. Here, the plane of General Mark Clark, Fifth Army commander, brings the general back from an inspection tour of outlying positions. Blasting Nazi emplacements in the hills is typical of artillery action along the entire Italian front. In towns less than 30 miles from Rome, men of the Fifth Army push inland from their new beach heads at Nettuno and Anzio. German prisoners swarm to the rear. Passing lines of heavy tanks moving up, the Nazis are loaded aboard the same invasion boats that brought the United Nations forces to Italy. Refugees from Yugoslavia land at an Italian port, ferried across the Adriatic by the Allies, they find here a temporary haven from their embattled homeland. Broken food is assigned to the camp to feed these hungry allies of the United Nations. For some, it is the first sight of substantial food in many months. Women and children of Yugoslavia have been as brave as their men in resisting Nazi aggression. Now, they await in safety for the day of peace when they can return to their own country. War chiefs meet in London to plan the strategy of invasion. In Supreme Command, General Dwight Eisenhower with General Sir Bernard Montgomery as chief of British forces. This is the cameraman's first chance to film them together, mapping the attack. Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder left his General Eisenhower's deputy commander, the air arm to play an important role. Today, Britain is a mighty arsenal. Great squadrons of fighters, bombers gather for the day. At air depots, spare engines, replacement parts, forests of new propellers are assembled. Shells and bombs of every kind, light explosives, demolitions, incendiaries by the acres, by the tons, are scattered throughout the island. Seeing the most powerful armies the world has ever known, the Allied leaders are ready.