Formation of Israel in May 1948 and events leading up to it. October 1947: Jewish refugees from Europe aboard two ships arriving in Palestine, only to be turned away by British authorities and sent to internment in Cyprus. They get off from the ship Cyprus. A Jewish woman with her child at the dock. A sign reads 'United Nations Palestine Commission'. Delegates seated in a hall debating about the partition of Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs. Destroyed houses and buildings in Haifa after fighting between Israeli and Arab forces. Jewish troops holding guns walk on the ruins of building. The dead Jewish people on street. The troops stand in a group. Captured Arab prisoners in the Negev desert area, being directed by Israeli Defense Forces soldiers (IDF). The prisoners with their hands up enter a vehicle. Cars and people on a street with a traffic circle in Tel Aviv. Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben Gurion, enters a building on May 14, 1948, to be installed as leader of the new government. The Jewish soldiers stand holding guns. A flag of Israel flutters in the air on a flag pole. United Nations soldiers stand holding a white flag and join Israeli troops in recovering bodies of Israeli soldiers killed in ongoing skirmishes with Arab forces. The troops stand on a border. President of Israel Chaim Weizmann, a Jewish patriot, walks with officials. Soldiers stand on the side. The Israel delegates go to the United Nations and seek for Israel to be admitted to the United Nations. Delegates seated in hall. Middle Eastern Arab country representatives of the UN walk out of the hall in protest after Israeli receives the vote admitting it to the UN. The empty seats of the Arab countries. The new state of Israel is born. Flags are raised at the UN including the flag of Israel. People cheer and celebrate. From a July 2, 1964 newsreel of "Yesterday's Big Story".
1957 World Series game 1 baseball between New York Yankees and Milwaukee Braves at Yankee Stadium in New York. People crowd outside the stadium. The spectators enter the stadium to watch the game. The fans seated in the stands. Yankees manager Casey Stengel and Braves manager Fred Haney pose. The spectators in the stand. Legion Junior League star Freddy Prox throws in the game ball to start the game. The baseball game underway. Warren Spahn of Braves pitching in the 5th inning as Jerry Coleman gets his second hit with a single. With two outs, Hank Bauer hits a double to center field past Hank Aaron, and Coleman scores the first run of the game. in the 6th Inning Yankees' Nelson Howard hits a single. Yogi Berra is walked by Spahn. Andy Carey then gets a single and Howard scores, making the score 2-0 Yankees leading. Next shows more fans cheering, then Jerry Coleman facing Braves pitcher Ernie Johnson. Johnson bunts and Yogi Berra scores from third. In the 7th inning, Wes Covington hits a double off of pitcher Whitey Ford. Covington later scores, but the Braves fall to the Yankees by a score of 3 to 1.
U.S. Naval fleet of warships anchored off Ulithi Atoll, Palau, Western Caroline Islands, during World War 2. Aircraft carriers are seen and many other types of warships. Closeup of a Pensacola, Salt Lake City ("Swayback Maru") class heavy cruiser, in camouflage paint, with Kingfisher scout plane on her stern. An escort aircraft carrier. A sling filled with supplies being unloaded on an aircraft carrier. A U.S. flag on the cargo ship in the background. Food supplies being unloaded from cargo nets. Sailors pick up the supplies and store them aboard the aircraft carrier. Cartons piled up inside the aircraft carrier. A sailor pulls a trolley loaded with food supplies. The interior of the carrier with stored food supplies.
Three crew members stand on deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier, anchored off Ulithi Atoll during World War 2. One holds an anemometer, with its buckets spinning. A TBF avenger aircraft on deck ready to be catapulted. It launches and is seen flying away above a variety of naval vessels at anchor. View from an aircraft flying fast and low, past Ulithi Atoll. A TBF avenger landing on the Ulithi airstrip. (Note: At TC 00:28 through 00:36, the Destroyer Tender, USS Prairie AD15, is seen with several destroyers tied to it. She rescued survivors from the sinking of the Oiler, USS Mississinewa, AO-59, by a Japanese Kaiten suicide submarine, on November 20, 1944.)
Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo attempts suicide in Japan. People walk outside a hospital. A sign board reads' U.S. 98th Evacuation Hospital'. Sergeant John Archinal donates blood to save Hideki Tojo. The doctors perform blood transfusion. A close view of Sergeant John Archinal. The gun from which Tojo shot himself. The troops look out from a window. The doctors treat Tojo in the hospital. A close up view of Tojo. Tojo on a bed in the 98th Field Evacuation Hospital. 1st Lt. Rebecca Schmidt, Hideki Tojo’s nurse, stands by his bedside. A view of the damaged buildings. U.S. Army troops in Tokyo look at the damaged Imperial Diet building 1 Chome-7-1 Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan). Flashback scene shows Japanese Emperor Hirohito visiting the damaged city before the surrender in World War II. The emperor looks at a chart on a table. Subordinates and Japanese officials stand in the background. U.S. soldiers read a sign which reads "No Trespassing - The Emperors palace" outside the Imperial Palace. Japanese boys bowing in front of the Imperial Palace. Dismayed Japanese people read news bulletins. A woman distributes a one page newspaper on the street in Tokyo. People crowd outside a movie theater. Japanese people buy movie tickets from a box office booth. A Japanese elderly man walking. Japanese people wait for a tram or trolley or streetcar. They get in the tram. American troops riding inside the tram or streetcar. Admiral William “Bull” Halsey rides a white horse. Admiral Halsey stands beside the horse and smokes. He sits on horseback and rides the horse, having promised that he would ride a horse through the streets of Tokyo after the Japanese defeat in World War 2.
A documentary 'The Years of Decision' reviews the beginning of the Marshall Plan in response to recovery needs of the European people following World War 2. Busy streets and sidewalks filled with pedestrians in London as people walk in the city. Double decker buses and other vehicles driving past on a road in the background. People in France walking on streets of city, sitting in cafes, and buying food, produce, textiles and other items from market vendors with stalls and carts. Men and women buy things from shops. Scene changes to the Netherlands, with many men riding bicycles arriving or departing work at Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam (Heineken Brouwerij on Stadhouderskade). The Dutch words “Stoom Bierbrouwerij” (Steam Brewery) are seen on the building. A Dutch man in a textile factory works at a weaving machine. Scene changes to a coal mine area in the United Kingdom. British coal miners sitting in a train headed into a mine. A worker at the Fiat factory in Turin, Italy measures a small steel part used in manufacturing cars. Cattle on a farm walk near barns. A French farmer in France driving a tractor.
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