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NATO officers observe firepower demonstrations by U.S. P-80 shooting star aircraft
Two U.S. Air Force F-80 shooting star jets fly overhead and then demonstrate bombing on a field in the Netherlands. NATO observers watch from a hillside next to a large windmill. Explosions are set off in the field, creating moderate-sized billowing mushroom clouds. NATO Infantrymen jump up from camouflaged positions and charge. General Alfred Greunther, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, walks with a NATO officer. He boards a helicopter and departs.
U.S. Military cooperation with Allies in NATO and SEATO.
View of the Eiffel Tower through water sprays from fountains. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials arriving for meeting. U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, is seen. NATO units seen in exercises. U.S. support of South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) illustrated by U.S. Army troops of the Far East Command, on parade watched by Asian children.
U.S. 7th Army tank-infantry team takes a break during NATO "Exercise Monte Carlo" in Germany
Members of a U.S. 7th Army tank-infantry team takes time out during NATO "Exercise Monte Carlo" to sample fresh baked local German bread. They surround a soldier who carves large slices from a loaf and distributes them to team members. The troops are seen chewing the bread. Another loaf being cut. Two tank crew members sit atop their tank while they eat bread. Infantrymen clamber aboard the tank.
NATO officers look over maps as they plan emergency flood relief efforts for the Netherlands
Military officers from NATO countries jointly consult maps as they plan emergency airlifts of supplies to Netherlands, which is suffering from disastrous floods.
Refugees fleeing Korean War; Stalin's death in 1953, Workers strugging in East Germany with more work and less pay
Communist-backed North Korea at war with South Korea. Views of U.S. Navy warships firing on North Korean targets, U.S. Army tanks moving through a city in Korea, and U.S. soldiers scrambling in a fire fight. A U.S. Army chaplain hugs a dying American soldier and pats his face. The chaplain closely prays over the dying soldier. A U.S. Army officer lifts a shocked Korean child into a truck. Young Korean children, possibly orphans, eating food at a table. Korean civilians including women and children fleeing the war. UN council in a meeting regarding the Korean War. Soldiers from multiple nations mobilizing for the effort in Korea. View of Kremlin in Soviet Union. Scene of Stalin dead, lying in state surrounded by flowers around his casket. Other Soviet political leaders look on. Citizens pass by site where Stalin is memorialized. East German leader Walter Ulbricht speaking at a podium. Laborers in East Germany struggling as they work longer hours for less pay. Workers construct buildings. East German construction workers sitting idle on the scaffolds of a building under construction as they begin their strike in June 1953, initiating the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.
The Soviet Army suppresses uprising of 1953 in East Berlin and other cities in East Germany
The Soviet Army suppresses uprisings in East Germany during worker strike and civilian protest of 1953. Demonstrators haul down a red flag atop the Brandenburg Gate in East Berlin. Crowds at Potsdamer Platz disperse as gunfire breaks out. A wounded demonstrator is assisted by comrades during the protest. Soviet tanks rumble through the streets. Martial law is declared and orders of the Military High Command are posted in East Berlin. Demonstrators throw rocks at Soviet tanks on the street. Soviet tanks and troops block demonstrators. A map shows East German cities with uprisings: Dresden, Magdeburg, Frankfurt, Schwerin, Leipzig, Rostock, Erfurt, Chemnitz, and others. A poster dated 18 June, 1953 announces the execution of Willy Goettling as a leader of the uprising. A newspaper announcement reports the condemnation of Alfred Diener, of the city of Jena, as a provocateur. Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of West Germany, presides over a public funeral for Germans who lost their lives in the Soviet suppression of East Berlin. Leaders of East Germany are seen and East German proceedings against alleged ringleaders of the uprisings. East German refugees fill a large open building. They carry belongings and sleep on the floor.
