Boats pass ships in the James River harbor. Shoreline as seen from the boat. Ships in the harbor, including SS America (being reconverted at Newport News from wartime service as USS West Point). Bridge over the river.
View of the Forbidden Palace in Beijing (formerly known as Peking or Peiping), China. Modern buildings stand alongside historical structures in China. A modern Chinese building in Shanghai, China. Pedestrians walking in the Bund district of Shanghai. Streets of Shanghai at night. Neon signs light the streets. Chinese primary school and university students engage in various extracurricular activities. children come out of school building and doing organized game at the playground. Older children perform Calisthenics. Schoolchildren and teachers dancing outdoors. Chinese boys engage in rough play. Students, mostly girls, and tutors leave building at the University. Men walk into hills with spades to plant new trees.
View from a U.S. Riverine patrol boat underway with another in view. Armed crew members on the lookout. A gunner in position with single single M2HB 50 caliber machine gun in the stern. Another gunner at a double M2HB forward machine guns. American flag flying in the breeze. Rounds being fired making splashes in the water nearby. An explosion in the water. The patrol boat carrying the camera makes a 180-degree turn as does the companion boat. Gunners on the patrol boats commence firing toward the shore. Crewman on patrol boat reports to their operations center (aboard the USS Harnett County) informing them of enemy fire. View of sailors there receiving the message. Alarm sounds aboard the ship and members of Light Helicopter Attack Squadron 3 (HAL-3) scramble in response, racing to their Navy Seawolf UH-1B gunships parked on the ship's deck. They don combat gear and prepare for takeoff. Closeups of crew members at their stations in a helicopter and preparing their weapons. The helicopters take off. The patrol boats speed and maneuver as they continue to return fire at the scene of engagement. The helicopters in formation, proceed toward the area and then swoop low over delta terrain. View from helicopter as it passes a patrol boat below, and then as it attacks the shore area identified by the boats. Smoke rising from the target area. Helicopter firing rockets at the target. Pilots discuss location and armament of the Viet Cong elements on the ground. View from inside a chopper as it makes final run on the target. Sailor on patrol boat waves to helicopter as it passes low nearby. Two helicopters in formation as they head to a new target identified by South Vietnamese command center. Helicopter firing rocket at enemy position. Views from inside a helicopter during several strafing and rocket attacks. Bullets striking and rockets exploding. Strafing attack against a wooden boat that explodes when hit. A wrecked Seawolf UH-1B gunship sitting in waist-deep water after being hit by a sniper in a Vietnamese boat. Sailors removing weapons and other items from it. Wounded on litters being taken aboard the LST. One being helped across the deck. Tracer bullets fired during nighttime. Views of sunset.
U.S. warships maneuver during Fleet Problem XIX, in 1938. Among ships in the exercise were Colorado, New Mexico and Tennessee class battleships. A Tennessee class battleship at anchor and a Chicago class cruiser underway. Stern view of U.S. Lexington class aircraft carrier underway at sea. The Carriers USS Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3) underway in line of warships, with aircraft on their flight decks. A Mahan class destroyer passes in front of the USS Lexington.
A panorama of Paris Exposition of 1900,from Seine River. View of river bank from a boat. Passenger ferry boats docked at Exposition wharf, near the Celestial Globe. A floating concession stand called "Ricole"s" that advertises "Chocolat Menier." The boat passes under a steel bridge.People seen on the bridge. A three-masted 18th century-style sailing vessel is tied at pier. Several more floating concession stands. The boat passes by the Statue of a Second Empire Chasseur a pied as it passes under the Pont d'Alma. It passes under another bridge containing a sculpture of a rooster of other fowl, surrounded by two concentric wreaths. Finally, the boat passes under the new Alexander III bridge.
Bomb damaged and ruined buildings of Nazi Germany in 1945, including the Reichstag. Nazi Eagle symbol of Third Reich pulled down from building and crashes to the ground at end of World War 2. United States Army of occupation marches into city as German population lines sidewalks and watches them parade. Sign on a shop reads "Gaststatte Schosser." Many buildings in view are damaged or destroyed from bomb attacks during World War 2. American soldiers occupying German give candy to German children who at first hide from them. Nazi leaders including Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel, seen on trial in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. German people struggling to rebuild. women and children trying to gather wood from stumps of trees for fuel. A woman sawing a log. Women and children scraping food from inside trash cans and refuse bins, to stay alive during scarcity and shortages after the war. Americans providing food assistance and feeding German children in relief lines. Close up of a smiling boy as he receives food or drink. Soviet Russian Army soldiers occupying East Berlin and marching in formation. Russians removing an industrial lathe and other machinery and tools from Germany as the Soviet Union continues to strip Germany of resources after the war. A map of Germany and Berlin seen with divided regions as American, British, French and Soviet zones. Views of empty streets and heavily damaged buildings of Berlin after the end of the war. Children play amidst the desolation and destruction in East Berlin. View of Kammergericht, Headquarters of the Allied Control Council. Leaders seen meeting inside include American General Joseph T. McNarney, French General Marie Pierre Kœnig (Marie-Pierre Koenig), Soviet General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov,. British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery. View of Spandau Prison guarded by troops of occupying powers. Soviet and American troops drill and march on the grounds of Spandau Prison. An American soldier relieves a Soviet soldier at a watch post. Soviet blockade of West Berlin begins in June 1948. View of a man shutting down power in a power plant and lights going dark in Berlin. Blackout conditions in Berlin during the blockade. Germans plant vegetables in city to survive. Germans exchange goods in black market setting. A man plants vegetables in view of the Brandenburg Gate. The Berlin Airlift operations underway. U.S. Air Force C-54 aircraft flying low and arriving in Berlin, bringing supplies to West Berlin. C-97 landing. U.S. military forces unloading relief supplies and food from airlift aircraft. American C-47s and C-54s in the Berlin Airlift. Soap and milk being unloaded from airplanes. German children gather on a hill and watch low-flying American airlift planes as they approach to land at Tempelhof Aerodrome in Berlin. An Air Force airman throws a package out of the aircraft. It is a very small parachute with candy that drops from the American airplane to the waiting children. Children run to retrieve it and they share and eat the candy. Blockade is lifted in 1949 and rebuilding of West Berlin resumes. View of railroad tracks being re-linked, a locomotive running on tracks, and trains cross between East and West Berlin. Ships loading goods onto trains for Berlin. A coal processing factory running again in Germany. German workers producing industrial parts and goods again in production factories. West German construction workers rebuilding structures in West Germany. German people cast votes, establishing Federated German Republic (West Germany). Figures seen include U.S. General Alfred B. Gruenther with Konrad Adenauer, President of the new German Republic, together in Bonn, Germany. Soviet Russian troops marching on parade in East Germany. East German workers rioting in 1953, in protest of increased production quotas in Communist controlled East Germany. Soviet forces in armored vehicles patrol the streets and disperse the crowd. A large electronic billboard banner flashes West German messages and propaganda to those who can view it in East Berlin. Citizen refugees from East Germany arriving in a processing center in West Germany, carrying bags and luggage. East German refugees laying on the ground on blankets in a crowded immigration processing center of West Germany. A woman irons clothes in the immigration center, while a child plays with dolls.
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