Americans celebrate United States 200th Anniversary in New York City, United States. International gathering of tall ships (sailing vessels).View of USCGC Eagle (WIX-37) and other tall ships under full sail. View of tall buildings and skyscrapers of Manhattan, including World Trade Center Twin Towers. Tall ships enter New York harbor with Statue of Liberty in the background. Sailors aboard the ships. Fleet of ships from different countries pass by. Huge crowd gathered in lower Manhattan to watch the celebration. An African American child piggybacks on his father’s back. “When the ships come out soon, it’s going to be a beautiful thing to see” the boy says to his father. Men sing songs and people eat fruit and snacks. A woman eating watermelon watches the performance. Men and women in traditional costumes perform European folk dances. A Turkish dancer twirls in her red, white, and blue dress. Americans give their opinions about this auspicious day.
Covered bodies of dead Marines on litter at Peleliu Island, Palau. United States Marine Corps body disposal Unit, fingerprints and buries dead Marines.
French motorized cavalry unit with tanks and motorcycles in formation, in Morocco. The commanding officer, a French Colonel, orders the unit to mount up and move out. Tank crews and motorcyclists take up their operating positions. Column of tanks and motorcycles moves beside what appear to be ancient ruins.
147th Aviation Company at Vung Tau airfield in Vietnam. A CH-47 Chinook helicopter parked outside hangar. Its rotor blades turn. A truck goes. Sign over door reads "Maint Officer" (Maintenance Officer). United States soldiers enter unit dining hall and go through serving line. Soldiers are seen eating and conversing at tables. A chair cover reads: '"147th Aslt Spt Hel Co , Hillclimbers." Vietnamese girl fills a glass and walks away with it. (Vietnam War period).
United States soldiers work on the bridgehead area in Guam Island, United States. They dig 105 mm emplacement. They place 105mm howitzer in position. Troops leave slit trenches and advances uphill. Soldiers and M-4 tanks move inland. (World War II period).
Animated charts of United Nations Organization as determined by delegates of 50 countries working at the UN Conference on International Organization held in the spring of 1945 in San Francisco. Delegates from different countries attend meeting, can also be seen in conversation. Delegates and officials in San Francisco art gallery, observing Norman Rockwell's four freedom paintings. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation administration (UNRRA) supplies being loaded aboard a ship in San Francisco.
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