President Charles de Gaulle of France is firm during the army revolt in Algeria. French Generals with the aid of the army and Foreign Legion seize the city. Insurrection flares and the civilians on the streets. Trams and trucks on the streets. Paratroops invade Paris. Airports are closed and put under heavy guard. Bomb damage seen. Charles de Gaulle assumes dictatorial power and appeals for unity.
The Prime Minister of France, Charles de Gaulle, tours Djibouti in Africa. Charles de Gaulle arrives at Djibouti on his tour of the newly formed French African Community. Dignitaries receive and greet him as he disembarks from a plane. He greets and addresses the civilians. He attends a parade.
Activities of the American Military Government (AMG) officials in Europe during World War II. Displaced persons and refugees on the streets with their belongings. They haul bags, luggage, carts, and trolleys loaded with belongings. Jeeps move on the streets. The refugees, including women, children and men walk past damaged buildings. They gather in a field and sit and chat. The American Military Government officials interview men. Officers at a desk in an office. An officer talks over a telephone. He gives instructions to a woman officer to prepare for newly arriving refugees. Military personnel help children to get down from trucks at DP Camp. The displaced persons point at pictures placed on boards for various languages. They walk up the stairs of a camp office. Three soldiers interview a Belgian woman and her child. The displaced persons shown include refugees from Belgium, Netherlands, France, Russia. They are assigned to quarters in camps.
Opening scene shows view from aircraft as general purpose bombs are dropped on German targets in World War 2. Camera in aircraft track the fall of the bombs until they explode on the ground. Scene shifts to aerial views of Martin B-26 Marauder aircraft of the 323rd Bomb Group, identifiable by their white tails. A formation of the B-26s. View of right main landing gear extending as a B-26 comes in to land at the Denain-Prouvy Airdrome, France (A-83).
Swearing in of John Fitzgerald Kennedy as 35th President of United States and his subsequent tour to various European nations, United States. Kennedy swearing in as President during a ceremony and a large crowd gathers. Crowd applauds as he takes oath. Other dignitaries stand near him. Kennedy shakes hands with the former Prime Minister Dwight D Eisenhower. Kennedy during his visit to France meets with President Charles de Gaulle. Kennedy during meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. President Kennedy disembarks from Air Force One plane in Britain greeted and escorted by British Chiefs of Military Staff.
German Kaiser Wilhelm II walks among German troops assembled for inspection in Berlin, Germany at outbreak of World War 1. The Kaiser and senior commanders review the troops on parade. The last contingent in the parade comprises civilian officials in top hats. French Prime Minister, Alexandre Ribot, is saluted by a military honor guard as he exits a building. He doffs his hat and turns in deference, as Raymond Poincaré, President of France exits behind him. They both enter a waiting car, followed by the French Minister of War, Jean Brun., who joins them. As they are being made comfortable in the car, French General Ferdinand Foch, exits the building (wearing a great coat) and is escorted by another General. In Russia, Emperor, Tsar nicholas ll, leads military commanders as they review a contingent of Russian guards in formation on the platform of a train station in Moscow. Camera pans across crowds filling the Palace Square, St. Petersburg, upon the declaration of war on 20, July, 1914. Base of the Alexander Column visible in center of crowd. Russian troops file into well established trenches. Huge explosions raise tons of earth amongst the trenches. Troops flee for safety. Many take cover in large shell craters. Several fall to machine gun fire, near barbed wire. A book is opened to a page entitled: "Military Program Proletarian Revolution" (in Russian). German troops are seen from above and behind sheltered in a trench with a desolate battlefield in front of them. Closeup of the troops. Next, Russian troops who died are seen in a water-filled trench. One is holding an M1891/Mosin–Nagant firle. Closeup of another soldier, covered in mud leaning against sandbags. Bodies of two soldiers at a pond of water in their trench. One is immersed, with face up, in the pond and the other is reaching down into it. What appear to be the bodies of soldiers entangled in barbed wire at edge of trench..
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