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Evacuation of Shanghai as Red Chinese advance. USS General W.H. Gordon. Palmiro Togliatti Italian Communist, East Germany

Refugees and foreigners fleeing unrest throng Shanghai as the Communist Chinese Army advances, challenging those loyal to Nationalist China. An Orthodox priest looks at an infant carried by a European woman. Many people are screened before boarding the USS General W.H. Gordon (AP-117) to evacuate. Two Roman Catholic nuns board the ship. The ship departs from Shanghai. Communists parade in Rome, Italy and assemble at event overseen by Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti. Crowds of communist Italians gathered at the Stadio dei Marmi (Viale dello Stadio dei Marmi, 00135 Roma RM, Italy). In East Germany a large poster showing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Speakers at rally of East German FDGB (Freier Deutscher Gewerkshaftsbund) which is the Free German Trade Union Federation. Rioting and destruction in East Berlin.

Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037967
Bob Hope and Irvin Berlin entertain "Operation Vittles" Berlin Airlift fliers at a hall in Berlin Germany.

(First half of clip has no sound). A long queue of fliers of Operation Vittles (Berlin Airlift) outside a performance hall building. Fliers sitting in an auditorium. The gathering includes General Lucius Clay and Army Secretary Kenneth Claiborne Royall. Actor Bob Hope and Irvin Berlin perform to entertain them. Berlin jokes that he has changed his last name to Jones because in Berlin anything with the name "Berlin" is cut up into sectors.

Date: 1949, January 3
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023835
The Berlin Airlift. Allied aircraft transport and unload cargos for the city at Tempelhof Airdrome in Berlin, Germany.

The Berlin Airlift to sustain the city of Berlin during a Soviet blockade in the Cold War, following World War 2. Sign on airport building reads: "U.S. Air Force Station, Tempelhof, European Air Transport Service." A C-47 aircraft is seen being offloaded. A C-47 tazis past the camera. Others are seen parked. Scene shifts to a truck pulled up next to a C-54 transport plane being unloaded. A C-54 aircraft inflight overhead. German workmen unloading a C-54 into a truck. Men inside the aircraft roll sacks of coal down a slide to the men in the truck. Glimpse from inside the aircraft of coal sacks being placed on the chute and sliding to the truck bed. Some loose coal is scattered near the bottom of the chute. View of offloading operations from another C-54 aircraft. In this case, the cargo includes boxes and canvas bags. A truck backed up right against a C-47 aircraft to unload it. View of the terminal building in background. U.S. airmen unloading cargo from the doorway of a C-47. View inside where workers form a chain to pass parcels toward the door for unloading. Interior of a C-54 aircraft where a large pallet of cargo is seen on the floor. Men remove netting from the pallet. Glimpse from the rear of a British 4-engine Handley Page bomber aircraft being unloaded. A truck backing up to a parked C-47 aircraft. Cargo of Cartons and tins. One box contains a label reading: " J. & A. Kraus. Leberwurst." Other cargo includes wooden boxes. Final scene is a truck backing up to a parked British Handley Page bomber.

Date: 1949, March
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032473
German people on street during post-World War II blockade of Berlin, Germany.

Film depicts the conditions which existed during post-World War II blockade of Berlin, the Berlin Airlift, and final lifting of blockade. U.S. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley stands before a map of Berlin as he speaks about Berlin blockade. Civilians pulling carts loaded with their belongings during the blockade. People crowding streets. Crowd gathered outside a store.

Date: 1949, June 17
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074133
Buildings being reconstructed in Hamburg after the end of World War II.

Reconstruction in Germany after the end of World War II. Steamers underway in the river. People milling about on the streets. A car pulls up outside a building. People window shop at a shoe store. Buildings being reconstructed through out the city. Huge steel frame structures in the city. A tug tows a ship.

Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675042627
U.S. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley speaks about Berlin blockade before a map after end of Berlin blockade.

A film titled 'Berlin Blockade Ends' depicts the conditions which existed during blockade, the Berlin Airlift operation, and final lifting of blockade in Berlin, Germany. Rooftops of Berlin. A damaged building. A plane flies high over damaged buildings. Pedestrians crowding streets. A group around newsstand. U.S. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley stands before a map of Berlin as he speaks about Berlin blockade. Interiors of Air Safety Center with French, British, and U.S. representatives working side by side. Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Crowd on a street. Two Soviet officers walk along a deserted railroad track. Deserted Charlottenburg railroad station.

Date: 1949, June 17
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074132