1st Engineer Assault Company at Po Valley, Italy. United States M4 Sherman tank and army trucks used for construction of a bridge at Po Valley. Tanks carry equipment. Sherman Crab Flail Tank (equipped with loose chains as mine beating apparatus) moves along road. Trucks loaded with logs drive on a dirt road. British Churchill tank carries a steel tread way bridge section. United States infantrymen advance on a highway.
The 1939 World's Fair at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in New York. The President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, inaugurates the opening ceremony. British King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England welcomed by crowds as they visit the World's Fair. Lighted water fountains and people emerging from a tunnel through a water fall. A woman acrobat rides a zip line down into the crowd gathered at the World's Fair. Theme of the ceremony with statue of Trylon, Perisphere and Helicline. Closing of the World's Fair in the fall of 1940 includes a parade and fireworks.
Civilians walk on a street in Berlin, Germany soon after the end of World War 2 in Europe. American, British and Russian flags flutter on poles in Germany. Civilian men, women and children walk on the streets. German women dressed in hats and formal clothing walk on a street. A woman sits with a dachshund dog beside her. A bomb damaged building with rubble and debris in background from the war bombing.
Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov and British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery review troops in Germany. German troops stand at attention. Georgy Zhukov and Marshal Montgomery review the troops. A photographer takes pictures. Marshal Montgomery awards a medal to Georgy Zhukov. (World War II period)
General Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, makes his first inspection of Allied forces in West Germany. General Dwight D Eisenhower waves, seated inside an army jeep. He inspects the British Army of the Rhine. He observes amphibious maneuvers of French forces and Allied infantry, artillery and tank units. General Eisenhower inspects a U.S. F-84E jet fighter, accompanied by his Air Deputy, General Lauris Norstad. A large formation of F-84 jet aircraft flies overhead.
A guide, dressed in tropical khakis, escorts a clergyman near Victoria Falls. Two Missionaries in clerical collars, with a woman and two boys, view Victoria Falls in the British Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Africa.Several views of the principal and ancillary rivers and falls.
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