A transport ship carrying released German prisoners of war arrives at a Baltic Sea port during World War II. Crowds cheer the returning prisoners of war and throw flowers at them. Sailors perform the Nazi salute. Women and children waving bouquets of flowers. Prisoners of war crowd the deck of a ship with a Nazi flag. Nazi officials among the crowd welcoming the soldiers home from North Africa. Former prisoners of war disembark from ship one by one. They are holding bouquets given to them. Sign reads “Die heimat grüßt euch” (“Greetings from the homeland”). An Afrika Korps veteran soldier holding a bunch of flowers besides a smiling woman. Girls offering flowers to an Afrika Korps veteran smoking a pipe. Elderly women admire a young veteran. An Afrika Korps veteran cradling a kitten. A woman writes on a notebook at a table with paperwork processing the incoming soldiers. Stamps and wads of cash on the desk. A nurse and a German soldier together. The soldiers board a waiting railroad train. A woman gives a cup of beer to a soldier, through the train window. The soldier drinks it and smile. A soldier with a cast talking to his friend. Soldiers returning to Germany for rest. Railroad train cars filled with smiling, German soldiers who crowd at the windows and wave to family, friends, women and children crowding the train station platform to see them off. Crowds waving at the soldiers as the train leaves the train station.
A “Jiu-Jitsu Club” patch. The Jiu-Jitsu Club of Dresden demonstrate martial arts in front of Nazi officers and soldiers in Germany during World War II. Judokas teaching soldiers art of judo. Slow motion shots of hand-to-hand combat using judo techniques. Troops and Nazi German officers applauding. Judokas jump over four to eight German soldiers. Judokas engage in a Jiu-Jitsu match. A Judoka demonstrates with a charging soldier.
A line of children, led by their teacher, file out of a schoolhouse in Hawaii towards a small trench. The kids begin filing into the trench, stopping about halfway through. They crouch down, presumably into a sheltered position, before all standing up a few moments later and filing out of the other end of the trench. The teachers watch and guide them through this exercise.
A Grumman J2F Duck seaplane (amphibious biplane) is shown flying overhead in a diving run during World War 2. View of fighter airplanes flying from right to left in front of a large mountain. Closeup of U.S. Navy Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber aircraft making a low pass and dropping a Mk XIII torpedo during practice runs. Several views of Mark 13 aerial torpedoes being dropped from aircraft, as seen from a U.S. ship in the Pacific.
Three U.S. Army Air Force B-17 bomber aircraft flying in formation far overhead during World War 2. Camera focuses in on one Flying Fortress, before showing all three banking to the right. B-17 bomber aircraft landing at Hickam Field in Hawaii. Two B-17s with camouflage paint on fuselage taxi on the runway at Hickam Field.
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