Canadian World War II (WW2) veterans enroll at McGill University (845 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G4, Canada) in Montreal, Canada. War veterans in their uniforms at the McGill university campus in Montreal, Canada. Veterans enter a building with a sign on it that reads "McGill Sir Arthur Currie Memorial Gymnasium." Men walk up the snow-covered stairs of a building on the university campus. A sign on a building reads ' McGill McDonald Engineering building' veterans in a classroom inside the building. A math professor writing on the blackboard. A woman professor demonstrates a model as students listen. A laboratory professor explains various dimensions of a model to students.
American officers at Manila Harbor in the Philippines towards the end of World War II. An officer inside a building as he looks out from a window towards the sea. He comes out and gets into a jeep with a sign on it that reads ' War Shipping Administration Regional Headquarter '. Another officer gets into the jeep and they drive away. They arrive at a swimming pool. Clothes to be dried are spread on the ground. The officers silhouetted in the foreground as they sit by the pool side. Other U.S. soldiers in the background as they are about to get into the pool.
Slate announces "Fall of France." in World War 2. Next, huge crowd of enthusiastic people is seen jamming the Piazza Venezia in Rome. Prime Minister Benito Mussolini ("II Duce," the Leader) of Italy is seen on the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia, overlooking the Piazza. View from behind him as he waves to the crowd. Closeup of Mussolini announcing that Italy will consider herself at war with Great Britain and France effective 11 June 1940. Another view of the crowd, from the Palace balcony. Scene shifts abruptly to fires burning in a town in France and scenes of death and destruction in France from invading Axis forces. French soldiers and police assist a French civilian lying on the ground near a path in a bucolic setting in France. Several Frenchmen on bicycles ride along the path, behind them. More scenes of fires and destruction. A civilian being carried on a stretcher, accompanied by a nurse in white. A French boy walks next to the stretcher bearers. A French woman holding a baby with look of anguish on her face. Closeup of young boy and girl children among French civilians fleeing bombing. The boy is asleep on a burlap sack, with a woman's arm over him. The girl simply looks wide-eyed at the camera. A French civilian woman and a child, lying together on a stretcher on the ground. Glimpse of a person's hand lying open on the ground.
A dramatization depicts war veterans appearing for NBC auditions in New York, United States after World War II. A sign on a building reads ' NBC studios'. George from the NBC ( National Broadcasting Corporation) addresses the returning veterans before the auditions. Soldiers audition themselves one by one. They sing and play musical instruments like mouth organs. Three of them get selected. The Vice President of the NBC appeals to the veterans to appear for the auditions and assures them of being taken care of if they get selected.
A moratorium in Washington DC to end the Vietnam War. Peace activists and pacifist demonstrators milling about on a street. People wave the Viet Cong flag and the North Vietnamese flag. A man wearing a helmet with a sign on it that reads 'Press'. People on a street as they demonstrate and protest against the Vietnam War. A car moves past a building. Military Police jeeps with MPs drive along a street. An electronic sign reads 'Time to save 12.40 Nov 14' . The Military Police jeeps drive past.
A moratorium in Washington DC to end the Vietnam War. A sign at a stall reads 'Dispersal'. Peace activists and pacifist demonstrators gathered on a street at night as they carry candles. Men and woman carry candles as they march to protest against the Vietnam War. People with placards around their necks march. They march with candles in their hands.
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