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Japanese Air Force searches for United States Task Forces and attacks during the Battle of Coral sea in the Pacific Ocean.
A United States Naval Training Film about the Battle of Coral Sea. The U.S. destroyers move to point RYE. Japanese change course. Japanese search area before proceeding. Japanese forces find U.S. Task Force. Japanese Air Group Commanders find carriers and attack the destroyers. U.S. ships positions disclosed to the enemy. Fight starts U.S. orders his air group to attack. Movement of Japanese and U.S. forces. Japanese search U.S. TF positions and make decisions for further proceedings.
Transportation progress in Europe during the nineteenth century and into middle of 20th century after World War 2.
A model Relief map of Western Europe, with country borders marked in red. Animals used in rural areas. Italian farmers transporting milk cans and other things by donkey. A farm wagon being pulled by a horse. Road through the Simplon Pass, in Switzerland (constructed by Napoleon to transport artillery between the Rhône valley and Italy). Views of the mountainous area. Sketch of early English steam railroad train and of others in other countries, embraced enthusiastically by the local citizenry . Illustrations recording construction of the Britannia bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. (It opened March 5, 1850.) Relief map of Europe focuses on Basle (Basel)in Northwest Switzerland. A modern-day signpost showing directions to France, Germany, and Switzerland. Freight trains arriving and cargoes being transferred by cranes of the Canal Barge operating company, Schweizerische Reederei. View of open storage yards, rail lines and a river. Freight trains carrying various loads to many different European destinations. Wrecked transport facilities left from World War II.
Post-war recovery of Europe's water transportation systems following World War II.
Examples of European transportation systems including railroads, bridges, and waterways, destroyed during World War 2. Scenes of commercial vessels being launched and bustling commercial activities at the inland port of Duisburg, Germany. Large Rhein (Rhine) River barges being loaded and moving out of the port.
Road transport becomes the dominant mode of transport in post World War II Europe under reconstruction.
Road transportation system in post World War II Europe, supporting reconstruction efforts. European workers work at a bridge being bulit. Workers work on constructing a highway in Belgium. Diesel trailer trucks along with cars and Volkswagen bus or van vehicles move along a road in Germany. A truck stop at a gas station to refuel. Men load a truck with parts for construction of a power plant, and another truck with containers containing refrigerated fish. A truck pulls semi-trailers. A trailer truck loaded with Swedish furniture moves bringing new furnishings to homes in a town on the Polders of Holland. Boom in tourism begins. Signs at a Tourism office in Milan, Italy. European people at a Swiss railroad station. Swedish and Italian International tourism buses traveling in Europe providing a way to tour and sleep without needing to stay in hotels.
Postwar development of air transportation in Europe
Development of transportation in Europe after World War 2. An ocean-going ship is seen plying the waters of an estuary. A white tower is seen with moving radar antenna on top. A radar operator works in front of radar screens in the control room. He wears headset and microphone. Narrator notes how radar helps navigation in crowded estuaries like the Scheldt. Captain onboard ship ostensibly speaking to the radar operator. Another radar antenna rotating rapidly. A British European Airways (BEA) Vickers VC. 1 Viking airplane at Schiphol Airport (Evert van de Beekstraat 202, 1118 CP Schiphol, Netherlands) in Amsterdam. Glimpses of European airlines using the Douglas DC-3 aircraft such as the Belgian SABENA, Polish LOT and Scandinavian Airlines (SAS). A TAP Air Portugal (Transportes Aéreos Portugueses) DC-6 parked, and a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij) DC-6, named the “Vliegende Hollander”, taxiing. An Air France Sud-Est SE-161 Languedoc 4-engine aircraft, taxiing. View of control tower and related buildings at the airport. A person marking a carton for air delivery. A man loads parcels from his automobile trunk, into a Scandinavian Airlines DC-3 aircraft. Venue shifts to Orly airport (94390 Orly, France) in Paris, France, where a DC-6 airplane sits in front of a terminal building. Airport staff prepare to welcome a dignitary, including uniformed brass band seated at an awninged pavilion, and a military honor guard. A DC-4 aircraft parked in nearby background. A party welcomes the President of France, Vincent Jules Auriol, arriving on an Air France Lockheed Constellation airliner. A large contingent of Army troops are assembled in formation to honor the arriving President. He strolls across the ramp, accompanied by a French general and an admiral, among others. He climbs stairs of the pavilion as the band plays La Marseillaise (National Anthem).
Britain's Clement Attlee arrives in Washington to confer on world fight against communism; early Korean War scenes
British Prime Minister Clement Attlee arrives in Washington. He disembarks from an airplane at an air base. He is greeted by U.S. President Harry Truman. Prime Minister Attlee arrives to confer on the world fight against communism. He talks about the attack of Chinese communists in Korea. Cameramen click photographs. United Nations soldiers especially American forces seen fighting against the communist Chinese forces early in Korean War. U.S.Army tanks seen firing at enemy forces near a river crossing as United Nations forces fall back. The United Nations forces evacuate their wounded and liberated prisoners from the battlefield. Footage of weary U.S. Army soldiers taken as prisoners of war by North Koreans and later released by Chinese forces.
