Activities of Allied troops during the invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. A swastika sign on an animated map shows German occupied area in France and as a target for Allied troops to invade. American, Canadian and British troops prepare for the invasion. French soldiers of democracy board boats and leave the shore of England. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and South African Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts wish luck to Allied troops boarding a landing craft. A map shows Allied landing on Normandy coast. Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers the news about the victory of Allies over Normandy which is broadcast to the French people. A radio operator and towers shown. French people listen to Eisenhower's speech. A man gives the news of Normandy invasion by Allied troops on a microphone. People applaud. Streets in London. People of London read newspapers stating 'Allied invaded in France'. Aircraft on the ground. Airborne paratroops board the aircraft. A general talks to the troops during the airborne operation. The aircraft in flight. Ships underway at sea. The navy and the air force blast Normandy shore positions.
Inauguration of Republic of the Philippines. Crowds at barricades. Child stands at a barbed wire fence. U.S. Color Guard carry a U.S. flag. Crowds at a ceremony. Filipino girls attired in native gowns at the ceremony.
Inauguration of Republic of the Philippines after the end of World War II. Crowds at barricades across the Rizal Monument in Luneta Park. U.S. Senator Millard E Tydings arrives at grandstand. General of the U.S. Army, Douglas MacArthur shakes hands with Robert Finnegan. Tydings and others in grandstand. President of Republic of Philippines Manuel Roxas shake hands with General Macarthur. Prelate makes invocations. Senator Tydings speaks. Crowds in stand. MacArthur makes a speech. U.S. ambassador Paul V. McNutt speaks. Crowds standing in rain. McNutt lowers U.S. flag from staff. MacArthur speaks to Hannegan and turns around and laughs. President Roxas speaks and takes an oath.
Inauguration of the Republic of the Philippines after the end of World War II. A man with a pet dog. Delegates at a field and pose for camera. Representatives of Brazil, Argentina, and Poland disembark from a U.S. plane. Unidentified U.S. Senators and delegates at Nichols Airfield in Manila. View of a civic parade.
Dr. Josef Tiso in jail in Slovakia. Kraiska Sud jail of Bratislava. A warden opens a door of a cell. Dr. Jozef Tiso, a Monsignor of the Catholic Church and ex-Prime Minister of Slovakia during World War 2, is in the cell. The name 'Josef Tiso' written on the door of the cell. He sits at a little desk in his cell and reads and writes his memories. He then takes a book. He leaves his cell with the warden and walk in the courtyard of the jail. The warden watches him.
The opening of a nonstop Prague-New York flight in Prague, Czechoslovakia. A Pan American World Airways (PAA) plane lands at Prague airport (Prague Ruzyně International Airport, Aviatická, 161 00 Praha 6, Czechia). U.S. flag and name 'Praha' in foreground. The plane taxis. The passengers disembark. A crowd applauds for them. Labels on the parcels carried by the plane. The crew disembarks from the plane. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) delegates shake hands with them. Farmers' employees loosen the ropes of a cargo of hatching eggs. The freight is unloaded from the plane. A truck carries boxes of eggs. German prisoners pass by the plane. The hatching eggs are placed into artificial hatches in a hatchery near Prague. Men and women carry the UNRRA' boxes full of eggs. Young chicks in the coops.