Filipinos attend the proclamation of Philippine independence ceremony in Manila as the United States grants independence after World War 2. Smiling crowds of Filipinos in attendance. A Filipino boy watches the ceremony while holding a hotdog on a stick, a common snack brought under American influence in the Philippines. View of the Independence Grandstand (a temporary structure built in front of the Rizal Monument) in Manila with American flag and Philippine flags on tall flag poles. United States General of the Army Douglas MacArthur gives a speech during the Philippine Independence ceremony. “with this ceremony, a new nation is born. A nation conceived in the centuries-old struggles of people to attain the political liberty to embark upon its own national destiny.” Says General Douglas MacArthur. Filipino women with umbrellas watching MacArthur’s speech. Map of the Philippines. Filipinos smiling. View of Jones Bridge, on the riverbanks of the Pasig River, connecting to the Binondo Chinatown district in Manila. The Philippine National Bank (PNB) in Escolta Street, the historic financial district of Manila. Heacock’s Department Store, selling American appliances such as Remington, with various Manila billboards such as “ASIA LIFE”, “Elizade & Co Inc. Tanduay Distillery” and “Goodrich”. The old Legislative Building (now the National Museum of the Philippines). View of the Port of Manila. Men offloading crates of sugar and hemp to be exported to markets abroad, particularly in the United States. A ship sailing away from the Port of Manila. Factory smokestacks emitting smoke. Filipinos in steel and petroleum plants. Filipinos building a vehicle on an assembly plant. People at the Philippine Legislative Building entrance. Filipinos in panic, running for shelter, after air raid siren sounds. Evacuating people board a crowded bus. Japanese bombing of Manila. Japanese tanks with soldiers enter into Manila, prominently flying the Japanese flag. Japanese soldiers wade through water on a coast, climb a steep hill. Smoke in battlefield.
U.S. soldiers eat hot food for dinner and prepare for the night in Korea during the Korean War. Soldiers approach a tent on a hill. Sign reads 'Kitchen'. Prepared food is packed into Marmite cans to keep it hot. South Koreans carry these cans to the front lines. Men with the cans on their backs, climb up barb wire bordered pathways. They reach the front line and help unpack the food. Soldiers heat the food and serve it out in plates. White and African American soldiers in chow line. Mashed potato, fruit salad in plates. Soldiers fill mugs of coffee and juice. They sit and eat at dinner time. Hills with enemy positions. Soldiers sit nd wait for the night. A tank returns from no man's land at dusk. Soldiers prepare for the night. They raise roadblocks and barricades to seal off lines. Soldiers in position with their guns and artillery. A Turkish soldier patrols with his bayonet. Other UN soldiers including South Koreans ready with their rifles in trenches. Soldier smokes a cigarette. Soldiers run uphill and fire at night. Machine gun fire. Captain Carl Zimmerman talks about U.S. soldiers in various outposts the world over. He talks about the next episode of 'The Big Picture', a weekly U.S. Army television report.
Major Glen E Daniels of the Army Desert Training Centre in California. He stands in front of U.S. tanks and talks about movement of large units to combat zones by C-5 Galaxy aircraft of the U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command. Soldiers load Cobra helicopters into a C-5. MAC C-5 Galaxy aircraft Interior of a C-5 showing two rows of M113 armored personnel carriers stowed inside. The troops accompanying them are seen climbing stairs to an upper deck of the C-5 where they will travel. Quick closeup view of a C-5 headed toward the camera during landing. Paratroopers jumping from MAC C-141 and C-130 aircraft. First Sergeant William Lawrence Jr, of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, stands in front of a camouflaged C-130 aircraft and talks about his experience in 20 years of parachute jumping. He extols MAC's efficiency in transporting paratroopers and comments on resulting improvement of drop zone times.
Opening scene shows U.S. Army airborne troops in severe cold weather gear assembling on a snow covered ramp in front of a hangar at the U.S. Ernest Harmon Air Force Base, in Canada, during a military exercise known as "Wind Chill" in March, 1954. An officer takes charge of them and they march off in loose formations. Closeup of the officer marching alongside the troops. He wears an 11th Airborne Division patch on his left sleeve. A USAF C-47 aircraft is seen in the background. Later a C-124 aircraft is also seen in the background. View of a slate noting the exercise (Wind Chill),date: 17 March, and location: Harmon AFB. Scene shifts to the Harmon Air Force Base headquarters building, where a large half globe map of the Northern hemisphere is displayed with "6602nd Air Base Group" written boldly on its side. View of the Headquarters building with sign reading: "Ernest Harmon HEADQUARTERS Air Force Base."
Athletes get off to fast starts in the 32nd annual indoor games of the Millrose in New York. Athletes participate in sprints and jumping events. Runners run for win the race. Spectators watch participants. Glenn Cunningham wins Wanamaker "Mile".
Camera pans across scenes showing masses of Chinese. Narrator cites their large population as a war asset. Lt Gen. Daniel Sultan Commander of US Forces, India–Burma Theater (USFIBT) describes the Allied mission as simply "placing guns in the hands of men in order that they can kill our common enemy." He describes Japan's 1942 strategy of completely isolating China from outside help. Animated map shows Japanese forces attacking China from bases in Thailand and advancing north, driving British forces into India, and leaving Burma in Japanese hands.Glimpse of Japanese troops occupying Burma. Views of American troops evacuated to India. View of Chinese soldiers boarding U.S. Air Transport Command C-46 transport planes for flights from Kunming to Dinjan and Chabua, India. Closeup of some troops inside the cabin of a plane. Chinese soldiers await transport as a C-47 aircraft takes off in the background. Aerial view of two C-47 planes in formation. View from the air of high cloud covered mountains. Storm clouds over the mountains. Downward view from an aircraft flying over the Himalayan Mountains (called flying the "hump" by U.S. pilots). View of Chinese soldiers inside a transport plane. View out the window of a transport plane landing in India. A C-46 airplane taking off. A large formation of Chinese troops seen after more were brought from China to India, later in the war. American soldiers training troops of the Chinese 38th and 22nd Divisions. General Sultan speaks of the need to build up the U.S.Air Transport Command. Two C-47 airplanes on the ground. One named "The Joker." View of sky filled with B-24 Liberator bombers. Sky filled with C-47 transport planes. Chinese soldiers training in Kunming, climbing out of trench in live fire exercise with machine guns firing over their heads and explosive charges detonating near them. Air frame of a P-47 aircraft being loaded and several of Bell P-39 Airacobra aircraft being loaded aboard ship bound to strengthen the U.S. Army 10th and 14th Air Forces in Burma, in 1944. Covered P-47 aircraft without engines being towed by jeeps along a street in Burma. A large airfield with many U.S. fighter planes parked on its ramps. Engines being installed on P-39 aircraft. A flight line filled with P-40 aircraft displaying Chinese roundels. Some fly over a flight line of U.S. Army Air Forces P-39 aircraft. Glimpse of a fighter plane escorting a transport aircraft. A formation of B-24 Liberator bombers dropping bombs and exploding on Japanese ground targets. Workers are seen unloading large amounts of cargo from a B-24 bomber. Workers rolling a large bomb from the plane onto the tailgate of a truck.
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