United States Army 80th Infantry Division meets Russian troops in Liezen, Austria. Russian soldiers over bridge. Russian soldiers raise Russian flag next to the U.S. flag on bridge. Soldiers standing in attention. U.S. and Russian officers inspects formations of U.S. and Russian troops. Russian and U.S. Generals raise a toast to one another. (World War II period).
Burial service in Germany. U.S. soldiers standing in attention. German civilians attend memorial service for murdered slave laborers. Polish girls carrying prayer book. Members of United States 102nd Infantry Division, 548th AAA (Anti Aircraft Artillery), Battery D fire a volley over graves. A bugler plays bugle. Views of graves at cemetery. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers carry wounded patients (prisoners of war rescued by U.S. Rangers on Luzon) from air evacuation C-46 airplane, on stretchers, and transfer them to ambulances, at Tacloban Field, Leyte, Philippines during World War II. The ambulances are driven away. Ambulatory former prisoners disembark from a United States Army Air Force Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft. Interior of the C-46 air evacuation airplane shows wounded on bunk beds. The wounded are carried from the C-46 aircraft. The ambulances drive on the airstrip. Aircraft in the background.
United States 8th Cavalry and 5th Cavalry Regiment troops enter Manila, Philippine Islands during World War II. 8th Cavalry Regiment troops file past dead Japanese lying in a street. Major General Verne D. Mudge, commander, U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, and Regimental officers study a map at a street intersection.
Review of air raids in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. United States Army Air Forces Major General Curtis LeMay and General Thomas S. Power discuss the bombing mission on Kobe, Japan with other officers. Colonels Blanchard, Roberts, Warren and Muehleisen read maps and orders.
President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic Charles De Gaulle arrives in Washington DC. An aircraft taxis at the Washington Airport. Charles De Gaulle arrives and is greeted by United States Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes. Motorcars arrive at the White House. Honor guards standing at attention. De Gaulle meets U.S. President Harry S. Truman.