The May Day Parade at Red Square in Moscow, Russia. People gather to watch the parade. Floats pass in review. People look as athletes perform. Dignitaries wave from a balcony. People in the streets celebrate. They hold placards reading 'Peace'. Spires in the background.
Soviet aircraft and missiles in the Soviet Union. Officials review the May Day parade at the Red Square in Moscow. Various Soviet missiles including Ganel missile, SS-N-5 Serb missile, SA-5 Griffon missile and SS-5 Skean missile are displayed at the parade. Soviet troops loaded in trucks pass in review. A missile in a silo.
Allied nations participate in an athletic meet at the Pershing Stadium outside Paris. The closing day of contests. U.S. Army General John J Pershing at the platform. People gather in large numbers to witness the closing ceremony. Athletes lined up on the ground and arriving at the podium to receive the medals. The dusky Sol Butler of the United States, winner of the broad jump.
Celebration of 'Victory over Japan' (VJ) day in Honolulu. Crowd of service men and civilians gathered for the celebration. Navy band marches down a street. Formation of sailors march during the parade. United Nations flag fly from a building. United States flag fly from top of flag staff. Vehicles move on the street. Service men on vehicles as they pass on the street.
Celebration of 'Victory over Japan' (VJ) day in Honolulu, Hawaii. Crowd of service men and civilians gathered for the celebration. Marine holds a small child as the child waves. Small child in arms of a parent. Sailors celebrate with their girlfriends, waving American flags. Chinese Dragon paraded through the streets in celebration. Soldiers puts a lei on a WAC and kisses her while she holds a newspaper with headline, 'EXTRA! IT'S PEACE!' Car filled with sailors and a woman wearing a Hawaiian skirt and leis parades through the streets in front of the Max Cohn uniform store. Sailor kisses a Red Cross nurse. Marine kisses and waves. (World War II period).
Opening slate reads “New Americans Celebrate their Citizenship.” Huge Crowd is gathered in New York City’s Central Park, on “I am an American Day,” which also includes newly naturalized American citizens (although they are not featured, as such, in the film). New York Mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, presides and delivers a speech from a podium. New York clergymen are seated with one another on a front row seat where patriotic bunting is draped. Vice President Henry R. Wallace is also seen in that front row. Various views of U.S. military units parading along 5th Avenue in New York City. The units include huge columns of United States soldiers, including one large group of African American soldiers.
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