Clip opens with very brief image of buildings at Mauthausen concentration camp during World War 2. Next, scene changes to Lambach, Austria, on the banks of the River Traun, on a large open field in which German prisoners of war (POW) are seen camping and cooking food over open fires. They are German soldiers captured in the Austrian Alps by U.S. Army infantry soldiers of the 80th Division, 3rd U.S. Army, at the time the unconditional surrender was signed. The weather is warm and many are lightly dressed. Some men are lined up behind a truck carrying a tank of fresh water. A section of the camp has been cleared as a football (Soccer) pitch and men appear to be trying to organize a game. Scene shifts to a far end of the encampment, bounded by many trees. Everyone at the camp seems occupied in adjusting their tents and other matters related to their shelters. More views of men at the football pitch. Closeup of a man with stove and cooking gear under an unusual shelter. Closeup of a man eating soup as a group of young soldiers stand behind him. Closeup of three very young German soldiers, two of who are wearing German uniform caps. Closeup of an older man smoking a pipe. Another young man wearing a German soldier's cap.
German radar antennas at a military base near the end of WW2 in Europe. Various large and small radars. Smoke rising in distance beyond partially wrecked buildings from allied bombing in a German city.
Soldiers of 1st Infantry Division of the U.S. Army wearing a camouflaged tiger suit flop hat, move at jungles in Lai Khe, South Vietnam. The hat adopted by all Special Forces and Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) personnel of the 1st Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. Two soldiers wearing the hats move through bushes. They sit on the ground and check map and compass. Sign of 2nh Battalion, 34th Armor, 3rd Brigade and 1st Infantry division. (Vietnam War period).
World War 2 Japanese military officer reviews the allied war prisoners as they move away in jeeps. Allied prisoners of war carrying pick axe and bricks in a hand driven carts move to construction site. Prisoners place the bricks one upon another as officer surveys the construction site. Prisoners clear out weeds from the area. Officials look up at the map and discuss the plan . Construction of road starts with the signaling of the green flag. Prisoners construct a shed as officials keep an eye.
Bomb bay of United States Army Air Force B-29 aircraft opens. Interior view of aircraft shows bombardier in nose as he looks through bomb sight. Actual atomic bomb detonation over Nagasaki Japan as seen from B-29 aircraft on August 9, 1945. View of mushroom cloud rising rapidly from an atomic blast (a different blast; not Nagasaki or Hiroshima). Ground views of devastated city of Hiroshima following atomic bombing in World War 2.
British Embassy bombing in Rome, Italy by terrorists after World War 2. The British Embassy (Via XX Settembre 80/a, 00187 Rome, Italy) with a gaping entranceway and its residential section damaged. The internal façade of the Porta Pia, a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, can be seen in the background. A pile of rubble at the damaged area of the embassy. People with umbrellas flock to street to see the wreckage of the explosion. Italian carabinieri investigate the explosion. Rubble and damage inside the embassy. A young carabinieri searches for evidence in the rubble. A gaping hole from the damage of the British Embassy. The explosion was caused by eighty pounds trinitrotoluene (TNT) planted in two suitcases, injuring three people.
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