U.S. War Department information film "Overseas Mission" describes relief and rebuilding works in Germany and Japan by United States Army, after World War II. Battle between the Allied forces and the Nazi armies, soldiers and artillery fire during battle in German cities and towns. General Eisenhower signs accepting surrender of Germany. General MacArthur signs accepting surrender of Japan to mark the end of World War II. Soldiers carry casualties on litters. Treaty of Versailles after World War I. Newspaper lines read Nazi rearmament of Germany. Allied tanks and troops march in Germany. Marching Allied forces in Japan. Destroyed buildings and factories in cities of Japan and Germany. Nuremberg trials and arrests of Nazi generals. Allied forces dismantle German factories and industrial plants capable of making war materiel. A U.S. Army officer pushes handle to detonate explosives destroying a German factory. Nazi flags, German ammunitions and German factories are destroyed. Nazi troops and civilians saluting Hitler. Allied army engineers make roads and bridges, medics checking patients to prevent epidemics. Borders guarded, Nazi Germans tried. Prisoners of Nazi and Japanese released, dispensary checkup their health. Japanese prisoners released, board a bus. Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Re-establishment of press, churches, courts and schools. Japanese children at school. Election in the occupied countries to run democratic government. Map showing opposite positions of occupied countries. Rations for occupation forces and civilians transported in trucks. Officers hiring labor to carry out relief works.
German newspapers and weekly magazines in Germany. New York Times Newspaper article headline : "24 Churchmen Face Trials in Germany." Another paper reads: " Nazi to Stage Mass Trial of Religious Foes." and another reads: "Nazis Assail Pope - Order Nuns to Trial". Pictures of leaders of the historic political eras in German history, from Frederick the Great to Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
The role of USAF bombers, submarines and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) in maintaining world peace especially in the Mediterranean, Vietnam and Berlin during the Cold War. View of formation of United States Air Force Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft flying overhead in a blue sky. View from low flying aircraft of a U.S. Navy Polaris submarine cruising in ocean waters. A USAF Intercontinental Ballistic Missile being raised slowly upward from a silo into a launch-ready position. View from ground of large number of American paratrooper soldiers dropping from sky and landing on a field, including wide views and close-up views of parachutes and paratroopers landing. A U.S. Army paratrooper organizes his parachute and equipment immediately after landing. Aerial view of U.S. Navy warships cruising in the Mediterranean Sea. View from inside a U.S. Army helicopter in flight in Vietnam. Soldiers observe terrain out open door. Sign "You are leaving the American Sector" seen at Checkpoint Charlie of the Berlin Wall separating West Berlin and East Berlin. American and Soviet soldiers seen on each side of the checkpoint. An American tank parked at the checkpoint. (Vietnam War period).
Hungarian rebels shoot behind a building between Károlyi and Cukor street (Budapest, Károlyi utca 9, 1053 Hungary) in Inner City, Budapest. Two men running away from the crossfire in Városliget (Budapest City Park in Hungarian). Soldier climbs down from tank in park. In a devastated street, a tank rolls in, with Soviet soldiers sitting on top. Abandoned Soviet tanks in Andrassy Avenue. Budapest City Park in flames. Tanks roll in Budapest, with many cheering Hungarians standing on top of tanks. A Roman Catholic priest, wearing black robes and biretta, blesses and offers prayer to victims of battle. Woman, wearing a headscarf, cries. The kneeling crowd stand up and clap for the freedom fighters. View of the Soviet War Memorial at the Tiergarten in the British sector of West Berlin. West Germans demonstrating behind the Brandenburg Gate ( Brandenburger Tor ) Demonstration in West Berlin. Demonstrators holding flags and a sign saying “Ungarns freiheit ist ermordet worden. Was wird aus unseren Freiheit?“ (“Hungary’s freedom has been murdered. What will become of our freedom?” in German). West Berlin police walk past demonstrators. West Berlin police fire water cannon and retaliate at demonstrators. French demonstrators in Paris walk in a somber funeral procession for the Victims of the Hungarian Revolution. French demonstrators rallying against oppressors of Hungary as menace to the liberty of France. Rioting French students vandalize and put to flames the Parti Communisie France (French Communist Party headquarters in Paris. French students run out of the burning French Communist Party headquarters. Firefighters spray at the building to contain the fire. The remnants of the French Communist Party headquarters after the flames were put out. Hungarian rebels in Budapest. Hungarian Communist books and leaflets, such as Szabad Nep and Lenin) being burned. Communist flags being burned.
German troops board a Junkers JU-52 transport aircraft during World War II. Interior of transport plane showing German troops seated and singing in flight. A bomb being loaded on Junkers JU-87 Stuka dive bomber. Luftwaffe pilot getting into Stuka dive bomber. The Junkers JU-87 diver bomber taxies on the tarmac. Soldiers singing is heard in the background. Large group of Stuka aircraft taking off from an airfield. Stuka dive bombers in flight. Trees and rolling hills are seen on the ground. View of a bomb crater. German troops standing on side of crater. Wreckage of bridge and a railway station in Germany. Railroad station and surrounding areas showing extensive damage. Street showing windows blown from buildings in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. View of the Städtische Volksschule (State Volksschule) in Freiburg im Breisgau. Collapsed roof of the Volksschule. Wreckage of buildings. Sign reads “Säuglingsheim St. Hedwisgshaus Kinderkrankenabteilung Pflegerinnenschule” (“Infant Clinic St. Hedwigshaus Children's infirmary Nursing school” in English). Windows and interiors blasted at the St. Hedwigshaus Infant Clinic. Children’s toys on top of a table. Sign reads “Hilda-schule”. Bullet holes found on the exterior of a school in Freiburg im Breisgau. Apparently, there are children in school.
A Heinkel He-111, the primary Luftwaffe medium bomber, parked on a grass field in Germany during World War II. A Military Police officer stands guard under the aircraft's left propeller. Tail assembly showing Nazi Swastika. Marking on plane shows aircraft number 'He111/5490' . Several parked USAAF Douglas C-47 Skytrains or Dakotas unloading supplies. C-47s landing and taking off.
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