Lucky Hofmaier walks on his hands in Germany as people look on. He is on his way from Rosenberg to Rome and aims to reach Rome in 38 days.
United Nations troops face the Spring offensive during the Korean War. UN combat team soldiers comprised of British, Belgian, Filipino, and American troops quickly break their camp in the Imjin River area. A soldier hastily finishes his meal. UN soldiers standing in a fox hole with rifles resting atop boxes and looking out at enemy lines. Mortars being fired by UN forces at the enemy Chinese forces. A UN Military trucks burns after being hit by an enemy shell. UN convoy of trucks and tanks on a retreat halts and is seen as it takes cover due to heavy firing from machine gun and mortar fire in the hills. UN convoy resumes the advance. British and Belgian battalion commanders discuss plans. Convoy rolls through Uijongbu. Tired and weary U.S. Army infantrymen advance and wade through a rice fields and streams after heavy battle the day before. In rainy conditions, soldiers hold rear guard position and U.S. Army 155mm howitzers being fired at the enemy in Uijongbu. UN military vehicles cross a bridge. Soldiers pour gasoline over a TNT (Trinitrotoluene) mined bridge. They set the gas on fire and run toward the camera position. Bridge explodes and smoke rises.
English pilot Amy Johnson returns after setting a record time of a two-way flight from London to Cape Town. An aircraft in flight. People on top of a building. Aircraft piloted by Amy Johnson, an ace aviator, lands and taxis along in London Croydon Airport (Airport House, Purley Way, Croydon, CR0 0XZ). People gathered around the plane. Johnson gets off the plane and receives a warm welcome after a two-way flight from London to Cape Town in 4 days and 16 hours. Amy being presented flowers. A man clicks a picture. Amy Johnson waves to the crowd.
American Troop Carrier crews gather for a briefing on August 14, 1944, the day before the Operation Dragoon invasion of Southern France, in World War 2. The captions then refer to their return to the United Kingdom later that month, and to the United States in October 1944. The air crews are seen assembled outdoors at an airfield in Italy. The weather is hot and some of them are shirtless. Some airmen are seen wearing Khaki shorts or singlets. Views of the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan, New York City skyline, taken when some aircrew members returned to the United States in October 1944.
Quadruplets start their schooling in Beaumont, Texas. Perricone quadruplet boys in identical outfits and holding their packed lunch seen at doorsteps with their mother. The Perricone children, Anthony, Carl, Bernard, and Donald pose and smile. The children during a class at the school as they read their books. They play. Their school building in the background, inscribed "South Park School" over the doorway. A hand holds a clock. The quadruplets tucked in a bed together at the end of the day.
The USS Gamble, destroyer/mine layer, DD-123, DM-15 being prepared for scuttling off of Guam, in final days of World War 2. Her severely damaged hulk is seen tied up to a pier. An inspection party examines her. View from camera on the Gamble as she is towed out of Apra Harbor, Guam. View of tugboat ahead, pulling her. View from another boat, of the Gamble with a tug at her port side. Six men are seen riding on her superstructure. Camouflage paint and numerals "15" are still visible on her hull. The tug at her side pulls away. Continued views from nearby boat as the Gamble is towed seaward for scuttling. (Note:The USS Gamble was struck by two Japanese bombs off Iwo Jima on 18 February, 1945. After finally being assessed as damaged beyond repair, she was decommissioned, on June 1, 1945, and scuttled on July 16, 1945.)
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