A Christmas parade in Hollywood, California. Well decorated floats move past large crowds in a street. A girl aboard a float. Hollywood stars ride past the crowd on horsebacks. Actors wave to the cheering crowds. A replica of the Statue of Liberty on a decorated float.
Scenes of Allied soldiers celebrating Victory over Japan at the end of World War 2. Most scenes show liberated Allied prisoners of war as they celebrate being freed from Japanese prison camps. Many of the former POW soldiers are emaciated, starved, and thin, and show signs of abuse. Smiling liberated prisoners gather at a dock beside a prison camp compound and cheer an approaching relief boat. Letters painted atop bombed out building include "US Army Come After Us" alerting allies to the presence of their prison camp. Freed prisoners in another camp pose together, smiling and cheering. Freed prisoners pass around a flask of booze and share drinks in celebration. Views of a prison complex and prison grounds, after liberation, with U.S. Army and other Allied soldiers eating food and washing. Many are emaciated. U.S. Army officer interviews a liberated prisoner and takes notes. Two freed prisoners hold up a bat that was used to beat prisoners, among various atrocities committed by Japanese guards. A soldier holds up his burned and battered hands. His right hand is possibly also missing the thumb. Interior view of a barren prison barracks is shown, with only thin blankets on floors. An Americna soldier stacks up boxes of Red Cross supplies that had been sent to the camps for the prisoners, but which were stolen by Japanese guards. Liberated prisoners stand beside the graves of several dead soldiers. Final scene shows three Japanese former prison guards bowing before two liberated prisoners as the freed soldiers exit the Ofuna prison camp, near Yokohama, Japan.
Girls scout mariners aboard a schooner Wm. J. Stanford in the Chesapeake Bay in the Atlantic Ocean. The girls board the schooner as they get underway in the Chesapeake Bay. The girls raise the sails of the schooner. They pull a rope. The schooner underway in the bay.
Pillboxes being bombed in Germany a month after the end of World War II, in Europe. U.S. Army Air Force aircraft drop demolition bombs and napalm incendiary bombs on hardened German hilltop fortifications. Explosions, fire, and smoke rise from the bombed areas.
German Hilltop fortifications and related ground targets being bombed by U.S. Army Air Forces P-47s a month after the end of World War 2 in Europe. A U.S. Army Air Force field grade officer and a sergeant on the ground, both wearing steel helmets. Another U.S. field grade officer, also wearing a steel helmet. Both officers wear Air Force pilot's wings. They communicate with P-47 aircraft via radio. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts drop demolition bombs on the hilltop fortifications. P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft drop napalm incendiary bomb on an installation below the hill. Smoke and fire rises.
United States Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War 2. Flame trees in bloom. Lake Susupe from Fina Susu Ridge, overlooking Aslito Road, back toward the landing beaches around Charan-Kanoa. Marines cook food over fire. Marines seated with sand bag mounds in the background. Japanese prisoners carry gear. A Marine comes out of a building as he smokes. Men board a DUKW (amphibious vehicle) as it moves away.
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