Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over areas around German-occupied Paris during Wolrd War II. The Orly Airfield near Paris attacked by the U.S. Eighth Air Force bombers. Damaged runways and dispersed areas at the airfield. Bomb craters, 30 feet in diameter. Wrecked gigantic dirigible hangars and installations. Collapsed roofs and fire-twisted steel skeletons. Large erect structures. Allied soldiers amidst the ruins. Officers survey the damage.
U.S. correspondents visit British and American cemetery in Villacoublay towards the end of World War II. Graves of U.S. Army Air Forces and British Royal Air Force fliers buried with honor by the French. The graves inside the high stone walls of the cemetery. Plain white crosses, flowers, and bushes planted over the graves. Allied officers, soldiers, U.S. correspondents and civilians pay their respects.
United States 7th Army in Alsace, France during World War 2. U.S. 36th Division, 143rd Infantry, 3rd Battalion soldiers march a small group of prisoners cross an open field. Soldiers search the prisoners. They make the prisoners move across the field. M-4 tanks loaded with troops move past damaged buildings in town of Surbourg. Vehicles parked along the street. Vehicles of the 14th Armored Division move through a shelled town. Clouds of dust rise upwards. Bomb damaged buildings in the background. Rubble spread on the ground.
President Harry S. Truman's homecoming to Independence, Missouri. He is being honored by the city in the auditorium of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (1001 W Walnut St, Independence, MO 64050, United States). President Truman addresses the gathering during this first trip back to his home area since becoming President. The President exits after speech. U.S. flags on the building. The President gets into his car. Photographers rush to take pictures. Views of the exterior of the Westport Men's Wear clothing store in Kansas City, owned by President Truman's lifelong friend, Edward "Eddie" Jacobson. Secret Service mill about the entrance while the President is inside. A sign above the store sign reads 'Arrow shirts." The President and his party exit the store and reenter his parked convertible.
U.S. President Harry S. Truman speaks at the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Kansas City School of Law at the University of Kansas City (5000 Holmes St, Kansas City, MO 64110, United States), during his first homecoming to Kansas City since becoming President. President Truman behind a rostrum with a sign on it that reads 'University of Kansas City'. The President seated in a chair at the ceremony before speaking. Men and women among the audience. The President at the rostrum addressing the audience.
A motor boat race in the United States. A race of small, one-person, fast motor boats gets underway. A commentator at microphone. A motor boat driver in water after his boat upturns in the water. The driver emerges from the water.
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