A United States Coast Guard ( USCG ) air-sea rescue agency in Washington, United States during World War II. An airplane in flight over a sea. A sign board reads: 'United States Coast Guard Air-Sea rescue operations'. Officials discuss amongst themselves in an office. A sign reads: 'United States Coast Guard'. An airplane parked on the ground. 'Air Sea Rescue' written on the airplane. An airplane in flight over the sea. A boat hitched with a parachute is dropped from the airplane. Men aboard a boat underway at the sea. Men work on a ship docked in a harbor. An airplane in flight overhead. A pilot in the cockpit of the airplane. A helicopter in flight. A man ascends towards a helicopter with the help of a sling. He boards the helicopter which is in flight. An airship in flight. 'US Navy' written on the airship. A man in the gondola of the airship. A ship underway at sea.
Men work in a fertilizer factory in Europe. The men dig out raw manure for production process. They are loaded in trailers and carried to the factory. The processing of fertilizers in the factory. Men work on machines and equipment. Men spray fertilizer in a field.
Re-deployment of U.S. soldiers in Le Havre, France during World War II. A ship at a pier. Soldiers of 35th Division walk up a gangway. They board the ship. The soldiers carry barrack bags. A band plays. Major General Franklin Rose presents a plaque to Corporal Alvan N. Corgers. A Red Cross girl kisses the Cpl before he boards the transport. A rope from the transport is let down to a tug boat. The tug boat tows the transport away from the pier.
Celebration of VJ Day (victory over Japan day) in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia at the end of World War II. Czech girls in native dresses dance in front of a reviewing stand. American, Russian and Czech troops parade through the streets. A Liaison plane drops pamphlets. U.S. Army Major General Ernest Nason Harmon speaks from the reviewing stand. American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Laurence A. Steinhardt, Russian Colonel General Zhadou and other dignitaries in the background.
Czech civilians pose with some U.S. soldiers of the 16th Armored Division, in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, at end of World War 2, in Europe. They are standing on top and in front of an abandoned German tank. They completely cover the tank, and wave enthusiastically for the camera. Scene shifts to the rear of an M24 Chaffee light tank, with some civilians gathered around it, as it prepares to move out, behind an M3A1 halftrack pulling an M10 ammunition trailer. Views of other halftracks loaded with U.S. troops and equipment. Several American infantrymen gathered at a fence, one pointing out sniper location, while another takes aim with his rifle. American soldier in a 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 (aka, 105 mm Self Propelled Gun, Priest, by the British Army). He is firing its M2 .50 caliber air-cooled machine gun in its raised cupola. Brief glimpse of a Czech soldier aiming his rifle behind a tracked vehicle.
Led by U.S. soldiers in a jeep, a group of Czech civilians with hands on their heads, march under guard by Czech partisans,along a wide cobblestone street in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. View from above in building across the street, as American soldiers escort high-ranking German officers from their headquarters, into a waiting halftrack. Several Czech civilians taken prisoner by a Czech woman carrying a pistol. view from a building on Klatovska street, of American flag flying next door, and American troops in a line of halftracks on the street below. view up the street towards Masaryk square, shows Czech flag flying above the American flag on next-door building. Twin Spires of the neo-romanesque church of St.John Nepomuk on Chodske square in distance.
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