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U.S. African American troops man a radar station during a practice mission in Caribbean Islands during World War II.
U.S. African American troops in Caribbean Islands during a practice mission in World War II. Troops rush to practice alert. The troops man artillery batteries. Troops man a radar station and use aircraft detector and range finder. An artillery gun fired.
Brutalities against prisoners, officials gathered in 1949 in Palace of Nations for Third Geneva Convention; discussion of Geneva Conventions.
Film from 1965 shows scenes that span from early 1940s through mid 1960s. Film opens showing armed conflict in Laos and South America. Soldiers firing rifles in jungle areas. Armed men running across a field and in a town in Cyprus. Heavy armor engaged in conflict and buildings burning in undisclosed location. Riots in Congo with a crowd of men beating another man. Armed Republic of South Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) moving through jungle in Vietnam War. A Viet Cong fighter shot as ARVN troops attack a hut. People fleeing in streets of Cuba as government soldiers engage armed revolutionaries under Castro. A civilian woman suffering a seizure as Red Cross workers attempt to carry her. Burned body of dead tank crew soldier atop a tank. Medical corps persons moving wounded on a stretcher. Various views of ARVN with captured Viet Cong in Vietnam. Narrator discussion about Geneva Conventions and Counterinsurgency. View of the Palace of Nations building in Geneva Switzerland. Scene shifts to inside, in 1949, where delegates of 59 nations are gathered to develop new rules expanding the original 1929 Geneva Conventions, in order to better protect prisoners of war, wounded prisoners, noncombatants and others caught up such internal conflicts. View from ground of German paratroopers during World War 2, jumping from Junkers Ju-52 trimotor transport planes. Closeup of German soldiers leaping from a plane and descending in parachutes. Japanese soldiers surrendering to Americans on a Pacific Island in World War 2. Several scenes of massacre victims lying on the ground, victims of Nazi German brutality in Europe during World War II. Survivors of a Nazi concentration camp near the time of its liberation in 1945. A U.S. Army medical corpsmen help one to a stretcher. Executed prisoners of war. Courtroom of the Nuremberg trials. Seen in the front row of Nazi leaders are: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, and Julius Streicher. Seated behind them are: Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, and Konstantin von Neurath. Scene shifts to the postwar trial of Japanese Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma, in the Philippines. Prisoners with hands bound, in an unidentified Asian conflict, being herded into an open truck. Views of the document constituting the 3rd Geneva Convention of 1949, addressing treatment of prisoners and of parts directed to "conflicts not of an international character." Views of a traumatized civilian driver wounded and a female passenger killed in in his car (appears to be in Cuba or Latin America). Armed gunmen have the man leave the car. A man lays the body of the woman beside the car. Scene shifts to a group of surrendered Vietcong fighters with their weapons stacked. Wounded combatants being carried on stretchers. American survivors of a Japanese prison camp receiving a good meal after being rescued - this is possibly in the Philippines in 1945. Many of the American prisoners are gaunt and emaciated and malnourished. Narrator recites list of activities prohibited by Geneva conventions, as images show these activities: A ditch filled with victims of massacre. Hostages being taken in an internal conflict in an African country. Prisoners being beaten by non-uniformed civilians in and humiliated in public. A recently liberated prison with a former prisoner in striped uniform beating a man as a group is marched away (likely a World War 2 concentration camp with a liberated prisoner beating a former Nazi guard). Death sentences being rendered without due process. A court in Cuba. A boy pointing at a lineup of prisoners. A prisoner shot.
Passengers on Caribbean Cruiser Ship SS Atlantic aground at Port Everglades, Florida.
The Caribbean Cruiser Ship SS Atlantic, off Port Everglades, Florida. Ship stuck aground. Passengers on ship wave. People dance as music plays. Instrumentalists play music. People wear cane hats and enjoy their cruise ship vacation on the stuck ship, even as crews work to free the ship.
Many people die as storm sweeps Caribbean
Many people die as storm sweeps Caribbean. The wind lashes the trees on the Jamaican island. The storm sweeps in. Uprooted trees and damaged buildings are seen. Ships are also damaged. The walls of a hospital collapsed and killed several patients. Many killed in the storm. Wreckage seen.
U.S. planes patrol the Caribbean Sea and U.S. Military officers at Aruba Oil refinery in West Indies.
U.S. Forces guard West Indies Oil during the World War II. U.S. Military men load bombs on a U.S. Bomber plane. The bomber takes off and in flight over the Caribbean Sea. Pilots in the cockpit. A ship in water. Officers of the U.S. Military at the Aruba Oil Refinery in West Indies. Supplies and equipment of the U.S. Military.
Robert Ballard and crews prepare deep sea submersible,"Alvin", for an expedition to the Caribbean
The research vessel,"Knorr," at harbor in Woods Hole, Massachussets. Oceanographer Robert Duane Ballard and crews of "Knorr", and "Lulu" prepare for Caribbean expedition, by test diving the deep sea submersible, "Alvin" in local waters. Mr.Ballard discusses his techniques to study the evolution of the Earth's surface. Ballard leaves the Knorr, aboard a skiff, and proceeds to the mother ship,"Lulu", where the deep diving submersible, "Alvin" is kept. Crewmen make adjustments to the "Alvin" and lower it by winches and cables, through an opening in the "Lulu" deck. Ballard and his pilot enter the Alvin for an 8 hour operation check run. Rear view of Alvin bobbing in the open space within the Lulu. several smimming divers release lines from the Alvin. An operator aboard the Lulu clears the Alvin for a dive. The research vessel moves underwater. Underwater views of the Alvin. Interior views of the Alvin, showing instruments and meters. At 3000 meters depth, they are in complete darkness, and the pilot turns on lights. Ballard notes underwater features. A surge of sand and mud rises from the Alvin's propeller. He takes photographs of creatures and sea bottom. The Alvin surfaces after the dive and is met by swimmers who dive from the Lulu, and climb aboard to assist in the return and securing of the deepsea submersible in its berth aboard the mother vessel, "Lulu."
