The United Nations Conference opens in San Francisco, California near the end of World War 2. Flags of the participating nations. U.S. President Truman speaks to the UN delegates from Washington DC. Cars outside the venue of the conference. Personage at the conference include South Arabian delegates, North African Prime Minister and Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, China's Foreign Minister TV Soong, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, U.S. Secretary of State Stettinius, Andrei Gromyko, Jan Masaryk, Lord Halifax, Molotov and delegates from India, Mexico, Lebanon, Greece, Chezoslovakia, Egypt and Netherlands. Photographers take pictures. Typists work at typewriters in Associated Press Headquarters room. Telephone operators at switchboards. China's Foreign Minister TV Soong, Soviet Russian Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden each address the conference.
Sister Helena, a Chinese nun of the Roman Catholic Order of St Anne from Hankow, China (Shashi, Hubei, China) expresses her relief at the World War II coming to an end in Manila, Philippines. Standing beside her is interpreter Sister Ursula Mary. She speaks about her gratitude to the American forces and their experience living under a concentration camp in Manila in her mother tongue.
U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell at his home in California, United States. General Stilwell relaxes at his home after his return from China- Burma Theater of World War II. He speaks to newsmen. He and his wife look at some pictures of their family. Past events show General Stilwell with troops in China-Burma Theater. Stilwell with his dog at a beach. He assumes the office of the Commander of the U.S. Army Ground Forces in Washington DC. General Stilwell at a desk.
A film based on getting U.S. supplies to China from Calcutta, India during World War II. An animated map highlights Calcutta in India, Santahar and Parbatipur in Bangladesh. A train loaded with U.S. jeeps and trucks. The trucks and a jeep driven onto flat railroad cars. A train moves on a track. U.S. troops board boats on the banks of the Brahamputra River and are ferried to Pandu. A barge loaded with railroad cars moves towards the ferry point of Pandu. An animated map connects Parbatipur with Dhubri, Pandu and Chabua. Chabua is ultimately connected to Kunming in China. U.S. troops sort and unload supplies at Chabua satellite field.
U.S. submarines at a harbor in the United States. A ship underway at sea off the coast of United States. Using signal lamp, Signalman aboard the ship is sending morse code blinker at night (though first dawn light of sunrise is visible). Low mountains in the background. Men aboard a boat underway. The sunrise view. (Unrelated: Clip ends with brief view of Kodak "china girl" for color timing. Lettering beside this "china girl" or "leader lady" indicates Kodak 79 ECO and she is wearing a 1960's psychedelic shirt or blouse)
P-51 planes of the U.S. Army Air Forces in a combat operations over Wanling, China, near the Burma border, during World War 2, as photographed from a B-25 Mitchell bomber. Close view of the B-25 bomber's right engine nacelle and empennage shadow on the runway, during takeoff roll. Some soldiers and parked aircraft in the background. The B-25 takes off. . P-51 aircraft seen in flight over Japanese occupied positions in hills. Aerial view of a meandering river. Smoke rises from ordnance dropped by P-51s.