Marseilles: View of the French port. British, French and American Naval officers examine German demolition of the port town. Officers survey unfinished U-Boat pens. Toulon: Destroyed German ships in the harbor. Bologne: German coastal guns in ruins. Destroyed artillery. Le Havre: Destroyed buildings and ruins in the town. Unfinished German U-Boat pens. Destroyed artillery. Brest: Destroyed buildings and ruins. German soldiers wave a white flag of surrender on September 18, 1944. U.S, Army Major General. W.M. Robertson , 2nd Infantry Division discusses the surrender with German Colonel E. Pietzonka of the 7th German Parachute Regiment. German soldiers assemble in the main square of the city during the surrender operation.
Dover, United Kingdom: The town of Dover in Kent. Men, women and children move to underground shelters. Women play cards and knit. German artillery fired. British soldiers amid ruins. Scene changes to Calais, France: Calais under the liberating Canadian soldiers. Man cleans a room. Destroyed bridges. Canadian soldiers evacuate French civilians across the Calais Canal. Men, women, children, and wounded civilians helped across the canal by soldiers. Wounded lifted into military ambulances. A woman holds her wounded child. Allied airplanes drop bombs over enemy territory. Explosion and smoke due to bombardment. British and Canadian Army soldiers examine German artillery and coastal guns. A white flag put up at a surrendered German post.
A German Ordinance Depot outside of Rennes in France. Damaged and destroyed interior of the Depot. Abandoned equipment on racks. Damaged equipment in the depot rooms.
Germans demolish memorial dedicated to Marshal Ferdinand Foch and the German surrender in 1918. The memorial with Ferdinand Foch's statue at the center. A soldiers stands near an engraved stone on the ground. German soldiers dig with shovels and pickaxes. The memorial and a building there are blown up. Smoke from the explosions.
UN air and ground forces advance in Korea. Black smoke from explosion on hills. UN planes in flight over Korean hills. Planes drop combs over enemy North Korean installations. Machine gun fire from an aircraft. An enemy MiG fighter aircraft is hit and downed by a UN plane. The hit plane goes out of control and descends to the ground.
Washington: Nine year old Johnny Ritch heads a youngster's collection drive for shoes for Korean refugees. Young Ritch collects discarded shoes from a lady at her doorstep. A pile of shoes beyond the steps. Ritch with the shoes at a Navy yard. The Navy Yard sailors help him sort and prepare the shoes fro shipment. A huge pile of the collected shoes. Businessman Howard Mclay presents Johnny Ritch with a bicycle for his efforts. Johnny stands with Mclay and his father Commander Ritch.
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