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United States Army 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team returns to Japan from Korea and is welcomed by City of Beppu, Oita
Clip opens with rapid changing scenes: American troops in trench in Korea. American tank on street in Germany. American Ski troops in Alaska. Amphibian assault training in Puerto Rico. Rotating Globe shows: U.S. Army on alert to defend against aggression. Sergeant Stuart introduces episdoe and states that U.S. Army has come to Japan to know their culture and make friends after war and occupation. U.S. Army troops of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team, are seen arriving by railroad train at a train stateion near their base near Beppu,Oita on the island of Kyushu, Japan. U.S. Army soldiers, including white and African American soldiers, exit train cars. They receive a warm welcome from Japanese population. Banner reads:" Welcome Pala Troop comin back from Korea, City of Beppu."[sic] Women holding flowers and families with small children waving American and Japanese flags, welcome them on the train station. A sign over the train station platform reads: "Welcome 187 Para Troop Coming Back From Korea, City of Beppu." The troops stand in formation on the platform while the unit's officers receive the flowers from the women. Japanese men in fraternal uniforms and the general population all join in the welcoming ceremonies. The troops march off the train station under another sign reading: Welcome Home 187 RCT." and march down the main street of Beppu under a swirl of paper confetti. Next scenes are from autumn of 1945, as U.S. soldiers march through streets of Japan during occupation following the end of World War 2. U.S. troops seen marching behind Japanese police to occupy Japan, in 1945, amidst the aftermath of suffering and destruction of the war. The local population standing at road sides and watching with worry and concern. Scenes of postwar destruction in Japan. Rubble of bombed buildings. Scene of simple wooden dwelling shacks and wreckage nearby. A Japanese boy with his baby brother on his back. The baby is crying. Next scene moves again to circa 1950 in streets of a Japanese city, possibly Tokyo, rebuilt and with busy scenes of traffic on streets and commerce. Large outdoor rally with a Communist speaker addressing large crowd of Japanese people who sit and listen. Scenes from a what the narrator describes as a Communist rally in Japan, against America, which turns violent. Protestors running in streets during demonstration, with signboards and police and fire fighters extinguish flames at scene of an overturned, burning car. Flashback again to 1945 or 1946 as U.S. Army soldiers use tractors and heavy equipment to clear and level an area of war rubble and debris during rebuilding efforts after World War 2. Japanese citizens look on, watching the machines at work.
United States soldiers and officers at a military cemetery in France for Memorial Day services in 1945.
American soldiers and officers at a military cemetery in Ste Mere Eglise, France. Flags on grave markers. Soldiers stand with flags in hand. Officers stand. They pay respect to the graves of the American soldiers killed in World War 2 in the invasion of France. They place wreath on a grave. Children watch the officers paying respect to the graves. Soldiers stand with flags. Soldiers band. They fire in the air. They march with the band.
United States Generals Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, George S. Patton and Manton Eddy, inspect Ohrdruf Concentration Camp with the 4th Armored Division and concentration camp survivors, German civilians forced to tour camp during WW2
Survivors show United States soldiers around Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, part of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp network in Thuringia, Germany, after its liberation during World War 2. A group of concentration camp survivors talk to a United States soldier. A concentration camp survivor talks, behind him a fellow survivor smokes a cigarette. United States Generals Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, George S. Patton and Manton Eddy, inspect Ohrdruf Concentration Camp with the 4th Armored Division and concentration camp survivors. Surviving inmates show the concentration camp whipping post to United States army and Generals Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and Eddy. A United States soldier takes pictures of the whipping post to collect war crime evidence. Generals Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and Eddy walk ahead of American soldiers in Ohrdruf Concentration Camp. A woodshed containing piles of lime-covered bodies. Close view of bodies, starved with some riddled with bullets. View of George Patton, disgusted from the pile of dead bodies, as he inspects the woodshed a few feet away. General Dwight Eisenhower speaks with General Manton Eddy (center) and another United States General. Former inmates demonstrate to the United States Army how the Nazis torture them using a rack. United States Army and generals find fresh corpses of prisoners, gunned by Nazis shortly before the United States Army captured Ohrdruf. Corpse lying face down, with anal area covered in blood. General Dwight Eisenhower and other generals inspect the crude woodland crematory made out of railway tracks by the Nazis to dispose dead prisoners. Charred bodies and skeletons of inmates are on grill. General Dwight Eisenhower and General Omar Bradley inspect the crematory. United States Army trucks arrive in Ohrdruf Concentration Camp with German civilians. German civilians, with some are prominent Nazi Party members, are led by the United States soldiers on a forced tour of the concentration camp. A German medical major, tasked to accompany the German civilians during tour, stands next to jeep with red cross flag. Colonel Hayden Sears speaks to German civilians and American soldiers. United States general speaks to German medical officer. German civilians are led to courtyard of the camp, where there are 30 fresh corpses of prisoners who were killed shortly before the camp’s liberation. United States soldiers lead a group of former slave labor bosses to join their tour. United States soldiers show the German civilians the woodshed containing piles of quicklime-covered bodies. German civilians enter the woodshed upon insistence of Colonel Hayden Sears. German civilians walk away, some covering their noses with handkerchief, from the woodshed. Nazi slave labor bosses enter the woodshed upon insistence by United States Army. German medical officer and slave labor bosses leave the woodshed. German civilians and slave labor bosses tour the camp with United States Army. A German slave labor boss denies his knowledge about the atrocities against the prisoners. German civilians are made to see the charred remains of prisoners in crude woodland crematory. A United States soldier reads to German civilians and officers a list of atrocities committed against prisoners in the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp. Charred remains of a prisoner. German civilians listen to United States soldier.
German surrender, UN founding, and Chiefs of Counsel meet before conducting Nuremberg and other trials after World War 2.
A film on preparations that are made for prosecution of axis war criminals following World War 2. Ratification of the surrender documents (from surrender two days earlier at Reims) held at Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, Berlin, on May 9, 1945. German officers Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine enter room and are seated. View of Keitel signing the surrender document. Scene change to Hall of the United Nations Conference, held in San Francisco from April 25 to June 26, 1945, with delegates from 50 Allied nations creating the United Nations. This was officially the United Nations Conference on International Organization (UNCIO). Leaders of various United Nations countries address delegates present in the War Memorial Opera House of San Francisco, including Edward Stettinius Jr of the United States. Next: A meeting of the military tribunal Chiefs of Counsel of many nations, including France, Russia, Great Britain and the United States, held in London, England, United Kingdom. They sign the International Military Tribunal Charter governing how the major war criminals from World War 2 would be tried.
Crowd celebrates Victory in Europe (VE Day) on Wall Street, in Manhattan, New York City, May 8, 1945
Women in a street in United States. United States miniature flag on poles. Showering of ticker tapes. Mass of women standing in a street as they cheer the end of World War 2 in Europe.
Atomic bomb scenes WWII; atomic testing at U.S. Army atomic experiment station 'Camp Desert Rock' in Nevada, United States
Episode of "The Big Picture", a U.S. Army series of news release programs. U.S. Army cameraman recording Nike missile launch. Atomic cannon fires shell creating atomic explosion and classic mushroom cloud.. Army troops spill out of Sikorsky YH-19 helicopters. U.S. Army infantry soldiers ascend hill firing their rifles. Atomic experiments at Camp Desert Rock in Nevada, United States. U.S. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen seated at a desk in his office. He speaks about a series of atomic experiments ("Desert Rock 6") held in barren lands of Nevada at Camp Desert Rock. Celebrating victory in Europe, during World War 2, American troops parade down the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, with the Arch of Triumph behind them. Happy Parisians watch the parade. War scenes in Japan: footage of explosion and mushroom cloud rising after atomic bomb blast over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Barren land on the ground in Hiroshima after the August 6, 1945 atomic blast there . B-29 bombers in flight. Atomic bomb test detonation. Atomic artillery gun M65, also called the Atomic Cannon or Atomic Annie, fires and creates nuclear explosion on distant target.Viking missile launch. U.S. soldiers on parade. Headquarters sign at U.S. Army atomic experiment station at Camp Desert Rock, Nevada, displaying 6-pointed star with "A" in center.. Several atomic test explosions. Soldiers on hillside witness a non-nuclear explosion. Buses carry troops along a road past a sign warning of radiation hazard. Army captain, instructor, briefing troops before the start of atomic maneuvers.. Maps of planned maneuvers. Engineer surveyors lay out ground zero target. View of the ground zero area which is the target area for testing. Signal men lay communication lines to receive and transmit teletype messages. Men operate machinery and dig trenches in which troops will take cover. Other men cover them with sand. [Note: According to the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, from February 18 to May 15, 1955, the United States conducted Operation Teapot, a nuclear test series at Yucca Flat and Frenchman Flat on the Nevada Test Site in the continental United States. During the test period 14 nuclear shots and 1 non-nuclear shot were detonated. Several thousand scientific, military (army, air force, navy, marines), and civilian contract personnel participated in the organization, planning, and execution of the test series. Military exercises undertaken during and following the shots took place under the name Desert Rock 6.]
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