Men construct a wooden building at a beach and feed monkeys on St John in the Virgin Islands. World War 2 sign on building says, "We the People" and "Arm for Defense." Men carry baggage on their heads.
A group of Japanese researchers of Nippon Iga Sha inspect the damaged buildings and make note of vital statistics after atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan, soon after the end of World War 2. A map shows the location of Ai-Oi Bridge and Motoyasu Bridge. Damaged Ai-Oi Bridge with sidewalks blown apart. View of cap stones of Motoyasu Bridge jumped out of place in opposite direction as a result of explosion with blast wave centered at bridge. Wide sweeping camera pan view of destroyed, rubble covered area with low mountains behind.
During Nuremberg trial Nazi leader Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (sometimes spelled Höß or Hoess or Hess), the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, describes the final extermination of Jews at concentration camps in Germany. Scenes of inmates and slave laborers filing past prison wire in a prison yard, wearing prison uniforms. Young children prisoners filing past and some showing tattoos on their arms. Scenes of gas chambers, piles of dead bodies, piles of gold teeth extracted from bodies, scenes of emaciated atrocity victims barely alive, and dead bodies removed from concentration camps and buried in mass burial trenches by German citizens and POW soldiers after liberation of the camp in World War 2.
World War I scenes of U.S. Army airplanes in action at the front. A picture of U.S. Army Major Henry A. (Hap) Arnold and California Forester Kurt Dubois, who, together, started the fire patrol practice by United States Army aircraft in1919. Army flyers lined up on a field. Army Curtis JN-4 (Jenny) airplanes in flight as smoke rises from the forests below. Weighted messages with ribbons attached, being dropped by pilots while in flight to inform about a forest fire. Later on after the installation of radios a pilot sends a message on a radio set in case of a forest fire. In 1920s, Crawler tractors used to skid logs out of the forest. In 1925, tractor with a blade was developed and used to build forest roads. In 1932, a Bulldozer being used to create firebreaks during a Southern California fire. A fire plow in operation.
Invasion convoy headed toward the French coast for the invasion of Normandy France on D-Day in World War 2. Allied warships begin their bombardment. Many views of naval guns firing. Sailors signaling with blinker lights. Second wave of Allied infantry leaving transport ships, descending rope nets to board their landing craft. Troops loaded aboard LCI(L) 211. Allied fighter aircraft in flight. Gun camera views of Allied aircraft attacking German FLAK tower; a Heinkel HE-111 bomber; a steam locomotive pulling a train; and barge traffic on a canal.
Members of the Permanent Joint Board of Defense (PJBD), a U.S.-Canada Joint Defense Board, meeting in Victoria, British Columbia early during World War 2. Officials come out of a building. Officers review troops, together with the first chairman of the PJBD, New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Canadian honor guard lined up as La Guardia and Candian officers review them. Soldiers march.
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