A Battalion of Nationalist Chinese troops assembled in formation on a ramp at an airbase in Formosa (Taiwan). They wear summer conical hats. Their Commander, a Major, calls them to attention and addresses them. Next, a Sergeant is seen briefing a squad of camouflaged soldiers. A landing craft stops short of a beach and Nationalist Chinese troops jump out, wade ashore, and charge across the beach. From different view, the beach is seen to have barbed wire and other obstacles on it. Smoke rises from live fire carried out at side of beach. The troops dash between obstacles and surmount a berm. Next, soldiers are seen riding atop two camouflaged U.S. M2 half-tracks, crossing a bridge, at high speed. They are followed by two U.S. Stuart M3 light tanks and infantry running behind. An infantryman running along a furrow in a cultivated field. Two infantrymen run through a rice paddy where farmer is working. One gets exhausted and falls down in the paddy. Two soldiers firing a mortar. Another soldier demonstrates throwing a hand grenade, and ducks for cover as it explodes. Three soldiers firing an M1917 Browning water-cooled machine gun. Goosestepping Nationalist Chinese troops parade along a wide dirt road, past several buildings. They raise considerable dust as they march.
The cabin cruiser, "Big Wheel," seen returning to U.S. Naval Station Key West, with President Harry S. Truman, on board. Closeup of President Truman standing, along with others, on the boat, docked at a pier. The U.S. flag flying above it. Truman steps from the boat and smiles and laughs with others. View of two fish just caught on the trip. The President walks past the fish, followed by a large group of news reporters. A ship and petroleum storage tanks are seen at the Naval Station.
A U.S. Air Force C-54 transport aircraft seen parked at the Amsterdam airport, in Holland. A truck is parked nearby. Men unload 37 packing cases, containing the records of the Nuremberg trials, and place them aboard the truck. Closeup of one case shows it addressed to the International Court at the Hague, Netherlands. Next is a sequences showing a Nazi concentration camp and its infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei," sign over the gate; A sign reading: "Vorsicht Gas.Lebensgefahr. nicht öffnen." (Caution gas. Danger to life. Don't open.") ; Nazi German figures in the dock at the trial, including Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel, in front row, and Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, and Alfred Jodl, behind them. Closeup of Goering in dark glasses, and Hess. Glimpse of the courtroom. Scene shifts back to the airport, again, where the truck, loaded with the records proceeds under police escort. Street sign points 47 Km toward "Den Haag,"(The Hague). The truck and police escort passes through the gates of the Peace Palace in the Hague (home of the International Court of Justice).
Ships underway during Joint maneuvers of combined British and French Naval units in the Mediterranean Sea. British Vice-Admiral Lord Mountbatten and French Naval Chief, Vice-Admiral Robert Lambert, on the deck of the French Aircraft carrier "Arromanches (R95)." (This is the British HMS Colossus -R15, renamed while on loan to the French.) A British-made Seafire aircraft of French Aéronavale Flottille 12F, rises to the deck on an elevator. Next, with engines running, it takes off under direction of a French signal officer. Several more Aéronavale Flottille 12F Seafire aircraft take off in succession. Aerial view of Seafire aircraft in formation. Aerial view, looking down on the aircraft carrier. Planes in the formation of Seafire aircraft peel off one at a time and descend to landing pattern altitude. The first buzzes the Carrier and goes around. Three more are seen making landings on the carrier under guidance of French controller using paddles
U.S. President Harry S. Truman on USS Williamsburg in the Atlantic Ocean during his holidays. USS Williamsburg tied up to a buoy. USS Weiss underway. A Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel heads towards the buoy. Truman's guest take sun bath on the deck of USS Williamsburg. The President takes sun bath in a swimming trunk. Truman and Les Biffle on the deck take sun bath. The mast of the ship. The ship crosses a bridge and crosses the Chesapeake Canal. USS Williamsburg tied up to a pier at Quonset Point, Rhode Island. USS Weiss underway.
U.S. President Harry S. Truman on USS Williamsburg in Bermuda during his holidays. Truman wearing a cap stands on the bridge of USS Williamsburg. A view of Bermuda landscape. The President and the commanding officer of the ship on the navigation bridge. A naval air station in Bermuda. Men man a rail on a rescue tug. Bermuda in the background. A motor launch with canopies on it. A small boat underway. A floating dry dock in the background. Three U.S. Navy Martin PBM Mariner aircraft in flight.
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