American Jitterbug dancers seen at a contest in 1938. View of feet in shoes, as wearers tap their feet and beat time to music. View of drummer using wire brush on drum. Stadium of people cheer for a dancing cinematographer who is using a motion picture camera to film the event. In contrast, Nazi troops seen parading by torchlight. Nazi flags everywhere and Nazi party ceremonies, overseen by Adolf Hitler, in Germany. Nazis burning books. "Attention Jews" with skull and crossbones painted on stores and business establishments. Nazi Storm Troopers intimidating Jewish businesses and advocating boycott. Glimpse of Heinrich Himmler, in foreground, and Hermann Goering, in center of group of Nazi officials. Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers attacking Poland in 1939. German artillerymen firing heavy guns. A German railroad gun firing. German paratroopers jumping from Ju-52 trimotor transport aircraft. In contrast, patrons are seen descending in parachutes on the Parachute Jump ride at Coney Island Steeplechase Park, in Brooklyn, New York. Life Savers company sponsorship sign seen atop the parachute jump tower. People eating hot dogs, and firing guns at the shooting gallery on Coney Island's boardwalk. Germans march Polish prisoners of war. German troops entering Denmark and Norway. German troops passing a road sign for Chemin des Dames in Picardy, Northern France. Bomb exploding at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. American forces engaged in war against japan in the Pacific and against the Axis powers in Europe. U.S. soldiers throwing hand grenades. American wounded being carried on litters. People cheering liberating Allied forces in a European town. British soldiers on a vehicle displaying cartoon of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Soviet forces advancing in snow. U.S. steel and war plants in operation. Men and women working in American defense plants and war materiel factories, using drills, lathes, and power tools in the spirit of "Rosie the riveter." C.I.O. Poster to promote voting, during the war. Closeup of Sidney Hillman, President of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Spectators line sidewalks to get glimpse of President Franklin D.Roosevelt (FDR) in a motorcade. Silhouette of two soldiers helping wounded comrade. FDR's funeral cortege. U.S. troops taking a break, in a war zone. American school children run into a field. An atomic bomb explosion.
Bay of Pigs invasion to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba, by armed Cuban exiles. A man Roberto De La Pez recalls his experiences during a battle between Cuaban Army and exile guerrillas. Firing and explosion in jungle. Soldiers of Cuban Army move cautiously in jungle.
Vietnamese awards to United States Servicemen on the United States Ship America (CVA-66). Lieutenant General Nguyan Van VY and party de-bark from U.S. Air Force plane C-2A on flight deck of USS America. U.S. officers salute the Vietnamese officers. Two United States Marines follow the official party. A hot suit man sits on tractor. The C-2A plane taxi on deck with wings folded directed by a crewman. UH-2B helicopter flies on side of the ship.
A map shows the United States, British and Soviet occupied zones in Germany after World War II. American and French police checks papers and belongings of Germans entering their zone. They chase and capture a gun runner car and remove a weapon from the back seat. Scene in a building depicts young Nazi die hard followers in a "werewolf gang" meeting in secret to plot how to continue Nazi Germany. German civilians gathered exchanging items in black market activity. U.S. occupation soldiers sell cigarettes in black market to German civilians. German police raid a black market exchange area and arrest many German citizens, rounding them up and loading them onto a truck. A captured German woman cyring. German de-nazification trials at a court in session. At a news conference, U.S. Army General Lucius D. Clay speaks about measures to build democratic processes in Germany, starting with local elections. A leader speaks at a political party meeting. German civilians vote at first free elections after World War II. A German man acts with servility before a U.S. officer and looks vindictively in direction of officer after leaving his room. Narrator describes German people post-war as egotistical people.
Soldiers of United States 720th military police battalion in a patrol boat at De Long Pier in Vung Tau in Vietnam. United States flag and a banner reading military police seen atop the patrol boat. A soldier cleans a .50 cal machine gun as an officer looks on. Soldier steers the boat. The boat patrols the shoreline. Military police officers stop a sampan sailing through the sea. A sampan is a flat bottomed wooden boat. A rope is hooked on the edge of the sampan and a Vietnamese and an American officer gets on to the sampan for patrolling. They talk to two local women on board the sampan and take notes. An officer of United States looks on from the patrolling boat. The two officers search the sampan thoroughly. (Vietnam War period).
Allied nations participate in the Inter-Allied Games at the Pershing Stadium in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris, France. Arab men performing a sword dance. Spectators watch the sword dance. Men on decorated camels. Camels moving along the track for the camel race. People watching the camel race. Flags on poles in the background.
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