Around time of partition of India into separate states of India and Pakistan. Independence ceremonies in Asia. Governor-General of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah along with other officials arrives in a car in Pakistan. People wave. The Pakistani flag flying atop a flag pole. A large crowd gathered on a street in India. Buildings along the street sides. Mounted Sikhs in parade. People stand holding banners. Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru gets off a car. He addresses people. The Indian flag flying atop a flag pole. Mounted Indian police drive back the crowd. A great crowd in front of a palace.
Greek troops gathered at a town in Macedonia during World War 1. Some are near a compound gate by a bulletin board. Several who wear white armbands, are also on bicycles,or horseback. One waves a homemade Greek flag. A considerable number stand behind them. All are in Army uniforms. The French tricolor flies from a large building behind them. Next, those with white armbands (and means of transportation) move forward from the group.Scene shifts to An officer standing in front of a building, with white armband soldiers around him. The makeshift Greek flag hangs from a porch behind them. Scene shifts to Greek officers in peaked caps, speaking with two in side caps (garrison caps) and field uniforms.
Soldiers standing at attention on a field as they are reviewed by British officers together with U.S. General Eisenhower (likely circa World War 2 era). Officers inspect the soldiers. Wide shot of ship passing in front of Fort St. Angelo, Malta. Some British sailors at a port. Operation Hurricane atomic bomb test done by Great Britain: Atomic bomb blast is shown, which occurred October 3, 1952. British family seated at a dinner table in a house talking during a meal. Paintings of merchant ships underway at sea. A statue. British King George VI presenting award to a British soldier. Brief shot of British soldiers running from a bunker or low trench doorway outward toward battle at El Alamein. British tanks advancing on sand terrain in North Africa in World War 2. Exterior view of homes of some British families. Shops and buildings along the sides of a street. British people walking on a street near shops and businesses. U.S. soldiers also seen among them. A U.S. Army soldier stops to shake hands and talk to two British civilian men. Traffic of cars and buses on street behind them. Wide shot of British parliament buildings, bridge, Big Ben clock tower.
A front line aid station of the U.S. Army Japanese-American 2nd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Belmont, France during World War II, while engaging to rescue the Lost Battalion in the Vosges Mountains. Medics treat wounded soldiers. One soldier is treated for a hand wound, and another for a shoulder wound.
Memorial services in Luxeuil, France during World War II. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Alexander M Patch of the Seventh Army and Major General John E Dahlquist of the 36th Infantry Division present at the ceremony. Civilians gather in a street. Buildings along the street sides. French troops and French veterans of World War I parade. Lieutenant General Patch and a French General in front of a plaque commemorating the American forces of the Lafayette Escadrille. An officer addresses the crowd. Major General Dahlquist ties a battle streamer on the 36th Infantry Division flag. Officers and soldiers salute.
Oceanographic Prediction Systems in the United States. An IBM computer with tape reels in motion. The tape deck with two reels in motion. A technician in front of a machine. A reel of black tape comes out of a hole of the machine and drops on the floor. Hands working on buttons and switches on the machine. Black tape comes out of the machine. Buttons on the console read: 'Selective Jumps, Stops, Register'. A weather machine draws out a weather map. A bar across lower bottom reads: 'Calcomp 565'. A weather map is being drawn by an automatic remote controlled instrument moving across two sliding bars.
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