Refugee children, displaced children, and war orphan boys and girls arrive in New York harbor, United States during World War II. The European refugee children aboard the passenger ship Serpa Pinto as they arrive in New York to begin a new life after fleeing war and persecution in Europe. Children, including many Jewish children, from much of war torn Europe, including Poland, Czechoslovakia, Spain and Germany disembark from the ocean liner operated under the auspices of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM). A group of children poses for camera. Red Cross provides food and fresh milk to refugee children. The children eat the food.
Seven brothers and their father in the U.S. Navy in the United States. A bus halts. A father (US Navy personnel) welcomes and greets his seven sons (all navy men) as they get off from the bus. The brothers and their father seated on a desk. The eighth brother swears to join the U.S. Navy. The brothers with their father pose near a big gun of a cruiser.
Training of U.S. Army Air Force gunners in the United States. United States aerial gunners do physical exercise. The gunners are blind folded. They disassemble and reassemble weapons. A gunner boards an airplane with a gun. The gun is equipped with a camera. Airplanes in flight showing aerial combat.
Exiled European royalty King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in North America during World War II. King Peter of Yugoslavia meets United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his cabinet at the White House in Washington DC, United States. The King and the President seated in chairs. American journalists and photographers in the foreground. King Peter and President Roosevelt talk to each other. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands visits her heir Princess Juliana at their home at Stornoway in Ottawa, Canada. Queen Wilhelmina meets her granddaughters, Beatrix and Irene. They are seated in chairs in a lawn. Princess Beatrix and Princess Irene play on a seesaw.
Assembly and transportation of tanks in the United States during World War II. A tank manufacturing plant. Tanks drives down a hilly terrain. Tanks roll off an assembly line. The tanks are assembled as parts are carried via an overhead crane. Equipment of steel, rubber, tin and aluminum to be used in assembly of the tanks. Men work on the tanks. The tanks are transported via trains and ships. Ships at sea. The tanks advance in a battle field.
Surrender of the German Army in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Flags of the Allies are unfurled at the Tempelhof airfield. Lined up cars at the airfield. An English airplane arrives with Royal Air Force Marshal Arthur William Tedder (Lord Tedder) and U.S. Army General Carl Andrew Spaatz. Lord Tedder and General Spaatz shake hands with Soviet officers including Soviet Marshal Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky. Field Marshal Keitel and staff arrive. A band plays as Soviet troops march. German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel enters a car and reads surrender papers. Lord Tedder and other officials get into cars. The cars are driven away from the airfield.
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