During World War 2, three pilots of Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) stand in front of Billboard displaying their squadron symbol of a red devil with spear and cape. It also displays silhouettes of Japanese ships they had struck. View of the newly constructed airstrip at Ulithi, as an F6F aircraft takes off. It is followed, in turn, by a C-47 (R4D),a PBY, and another F6F. Aerial view of Ulithi and the new broad runway running across the atoll.
Physical damage caused by the atomic bombings in Nagasaki, Japan during the end of World War II. A damaged power plant. The collapsed steel roof structure and gutted interior. Debris cover the floor. The gutted interior of the power plant. Two men on roof of a building in front of the collapsed power plant. A building of the Mitsubishi Small Arms completely collapsed. The main superstructure which consists of steel beams and girders is totally collapsed. Men ride bicycles and people walk past the damaged building.
Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo attempts suicide in Japan. People walk outside a hospital. A sign board reads' U.S. 98th Evacuation Hospital'. Sergeant John Archinal gives blood to save Tojo. The doctors perform blood transfusion. A close view of Sergeant John Archinal. The gun from which Tojo shot himself. The troops look out from a window. The doctors treat Tojo in the hospital. A close up view of Tojo. Tojo on a bed in the 98th Field Evacuation Hospital. 1st Lt. Rebecca Schmidt, Hideki Tojo’s nurse, stands by his bedside. A view of the damaged buildings. The troops look at the damaged Imperial Diet building 1 Chome-7-1 Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan). Japanese Emperor Hirohito visits the damaged city before the surrender in World War II. The emperor looks at a chart on a table. His sub ordinates stand in the background. The U.S. troops read a sign which reads 'No Trespassing The Emperors palace'. Japanese boys bowing in front of the Imperial Palace. The Japanese people read bulletins. A woman distributes newspapers on the street in Tokyo. People crowd outside a movie theater. Japanese moviegoers buy tickets from a booth. A Japanese elderly man walking. The people wait for a tram or trolley or streetcar. They get in the tram. American troops ride the tram. Admiral William “Bull” Halsey rides a white horse. Admiral Halsey stands beside the horse and smokes. He sits on horseback and rides the horse.
A documentary 'The Years of Decision' reviews the beginning of the Marshall Plan in response to post war needs of the European people. People walk on a street. Vehicles driving past on a road in the background. A man buy things from a stall. Women and a man seated in an open air restaurant. Products displayed at a roadside. A woman stands in front of her shop. People walk in the market. A woman buys fruits. Women buy textile and clothing from a shop. Men ride bicycles on a road. A man works in a factory. A building. Coal miners sitting in a train headed towards a mine. A steel mechanic at a factory in Italy makes cars with steel from abroad. Cattle on a farm. A farmer grows food with the help of a tractor.
A documentary depicts the effect of the Marshall Plan on the lives of people during the first year of its implementation in Europe. A ship at a dock. Men unload sulphur from the ship. A framers sprays sulpahte in a field. A boat underway. Norwegian fishermen aboard the boat are fishing. A fishing net in water. Fishes in the net. A fisherman empties a box containing fishes. People at work in fish canning industry. Women working in Norway put fish in tins. Women packing fishes in cans. The packed cans on display in a shop. A woman buys packed fish cans. The packed cans on a table of a shop in Britain. A man selling spaghetti at a store in Italy. Cattle at a dairy. Tractors in front of a house. A farmer man sits on a tractor. Animated map shows export of tractors from the U.S. to France. Animation depicts contribution of the people for the recovery program. A man ploughs a field with the help of a tractor. A power plant in France. Men at work in the plant. Men construct highways with the help of modern machinery in Greece. Men at work. Construction of new houses for homeless people. Men at work. A man makes shoes. People at work in a shoe factory. Shoes at display in a shop. A man looks at the displayed shoes in a store. Increase in production in different sectors after the implementation of the Marshall Plan. Food kept on a table. Coal production increased to 11%. Coal being shoveled by hand. Textile production increased to 18%. Steel production increased to 40%. A railroad train moves on tracks. Man in Italy plays bocci ball with his unemployed friends. A British family eating food in their kitchen. A French family eating food during a meal in France. Members of a union seated around a table. A coal miner works in a mine. A man plows a field.
German citizens collect winter clothes for German soldiers in Germany during World War II. A sculpture made up of metal. The scrap metal is donated to the soldiers for making weapons. A man pushes a trolley filled with scrap metal. He empties the trolley. A man puts the metal into fire to melt. The molten metal is being prepared for making weapons. A textile manufacturing plant. A woman arranges old clothes. She puts them in a machine. Machines in the factory. Textiles are prepared in the factory for making uniforms of soldiers. German citizens donate money. Newspaper headlines about giving winter clothes for the soldiers at front. A woman gives winter clothes for the soldiers. Another woman giving winter clothes to a man. An officer holding winter clothes walks up to a trolley full of clothes. He keeps the clothes in the trolley. The officer and a woman looking at the winter clothes. People walk on a street. German citizens donate old clothes. A woman collects clothes. The winter clothes collected for soldiers.
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