"strictly G.I." title card. Women line up at post office to send mail. Poster advertising “V-Mail”, the primary method of correspondence with soldiers stationed abroad during World War Two. Poster reads "Reach Your Boy Overseas." Man at teller window gives woman a standardized V-Mail envelope. Hands sorting through pile of blank V mail forms. Hands of a woman writing a letter from Betty Smith to CPL. Larry Ross on V-Mail using fountain pen. Hand with pencil addressing V-Mail. Woman's hands folding V-Mail envelope.
Chinese University students stage a demonstration calling for the early withdrawal of Russian forces from Manchuria in front of the Consulate-General of the Soviet Union after World War II. The students gather outside the Soviet consulate in Hongkou District, Shanghai (20 Huangpu Rd, Hongkou District, Shanghai, China). Nationalist Chinese flags wave during student demonstration outside Soviet consulate. Student leaders shouting, addressing the crowd. Students march during demonstration from Soviet Consulate-General toward Garden Bridge. Students march during demonstration in Shanghai.
A steam locomotive train arrives at a train station in Arak, Iran during World War II. Iranian and Indian Sikh soldiers meet and shake hands in train station. United States soldiers disembark to go into the mess area at the station and greet each other on the train platform. American soldier pulls out a cigarette and puts it in his mouth.
United States soldiers march from a train station platform in Arak, Iran to a mess area behind the station during World War II. Military jeeps are parked near the train station, including one marked as "26th Field Hospital." Other United States soldiers wait and talk to each other on busy train platform.
Passengers load furniture, rugs, baggage on train in Arak, Iran during World War II. Iranian soldiers and locals walk nearby. Iranian teenaged girls in hijab talking with a teenage boy. View of train passengers, Iranian locals, soldiers and Russian civilians, peering from windows as the train begins to move away.
A train travels through mountainous desert in Iran during World War II. Steam train passes through a desert plain near Rahgerd Station.
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