Speed boat racing at New Smyrna Beach in Volusian Country, Florida. Different views of boats racing and spectators cheering. Walter Widegren of Glen Cove, New York wins the race. Trophy presented to the winner.
Bombing by Japanese forces in Shanghai as part of the so-called "January 28 Incident" or "Shanghai Incident." Chinese civilians rush on streets of the Bund during time of attacks by aircraft from Japan. A streetcar goes by and pedestrians quickly cross streets. Japanese Major Harada talks to Japanese pilots of 8th Japanese flying squadron at Japanese airfield. Japanese swift aircraft drops bombs on North Station and destroy ancient native Chapei section of Shanghai, China. Views of wrecked city, dead bodies on road. Civilians leaving in hand carts and trucks. Civilians crossing garden bridge. Chinese troops take up defensive positions behind sandbags in bombed area of city. Bagpipes announce arrival of Argyll and Sutherland Highland Regiments from the United Kingdom. United States Marines present and on patrol at American Concession, guarding the lives of nationals in Shanghai.
Atrocities against prisoners in Nazi camps at different places in and occupied by Nazi Germany during World War 2. Wounded and emaciated Americans are fed and given medical care by Yank Armies of Liberation in Grasleben, Germany. Masked grave diggers open graves in Hadamar, Germany. Around 35,000 political prisoners found buried. Soldiers question Nazi German Chief physician Adolf Wahlmann at Hadamar Killing Centre. General Eisenhower, General Patton and General Bradley inspect Camp Ohrdruf (a Nazi Camp) in Germany. Heaps of human bodies and lime pits filled with corpses can be seen. 21,000 prisoners stumble around with their broken skulls in Buchenwald Concentration Camp (a Nazi camp in Germany). Corpses lie everywhere with large tattooed numbers on their stomachs. Two crematory ovens that were used. Starved people loaded into ambulances for treatment. (World War II period).
First day of the San Francisco Conference of United Nations (United Nations Conference on International Organization). Representatives from 46 nations attended the conference, some can be seen entering the hall. Representatives seated inside the hall. Conference is officially opened by Secretary of States Edward Stettinius. President Harry S. Truman gives a speech.
The San Francisco Conference. U.S. Secretary of States Edward Stettinius addresses the other representatives of nations gathered for the United Nations Conference on International Organization. Foreign Commissioner Molotov of Russia addresses the gathering followed by T.V. Soong, Foreign Minister of China. Crowds on roads.
United States Army Major General Hardigg speaks about the need for saving waste fats and oils for recycling and reuse in the war effort during World War 2. Kitchen of Halloran Army Hospital is shown with Chefs preparing chicken and other foods, and saving fats. Homemakers and housewives shown straining fats through strainers to reserve and save fats. A housewife speaks to another woman. A girl presents a can of reserved fats to a store clerk who weighs it and gives the girl back a ration receipt.
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