American soldiers of 442nd Infantry 34th Division recover from wounds and seated outside a hospital tent in Italy. (Members of the 442nd Regiment were mostly Americans of Japanese ancestry.) A man enters the scene and hands them newspapers to read. The convalescents talk, smile and read newspapers. They read the 'Pacific Citizen'. Soldiers read 'Yank' magazine.
Dead bodies of civilians lying in a pool of blood in the streets of Saigon. 199th Light Infantry Brigade soldier speaks over radio. Civilians in the background. Soldier climbs a building. Soldiers seated on a M-42 self-propelled antiaircraft gun as it moves through the streets. One soldier holds a puppy in his arms. A few others follow the tank on foot. A soldier carries a block of ice on his shoulders.
Goodyear managers observe a model of the globe. George Hinshaw shows Mr. Paul Litchfield, Chairman and CEO of Goodyear, the route taken by a team of Goodyear managers returning from Sweden to the United States. Management from Sweden come to Akron Ohio as the Goodyear rubber plant in Sweden was shutdown due to a wartime shortage of rubber. Various managers from the closed Goodyear operation in Sweden walk down the gangplank from their ship at dock, including Twisty Monk, Bob Wilson, Lee Young, and others. Press interviews Bob Wilson. Mrs. Walter Condon, wife of the Goodyear Australia Superintendent arrives at Akron Airport to visit her ill mother. View of United Airlines DC-3 taxiing to a halt, and Mrs. Condon emerging from the plane.
German General Erwin Rommel inspects German bunkers and fortifications in North Africa. The General talks to a soldier and walks away. The German Army soldiers stand with their military tanks near their bunkers. General Rommel in a tank, having conversation with another officer. (Scenes are from 1941, but narrator is noting that Rommel has died, indicating that this is news form 1944, but is showing scenes from several years prior.)
City of Berlin, Germany. Berlin city flag. Early morning view of Brandenburg Gate, tall buildings and historical monuments. Trucks wash streets. Men sweep streets and roads. Delivery trucks leaving a plant. Woman walks along streets with a dog and a man opens a shop. Man wearing apron ringing a hand bell as boy follows behind. Woman buys liquid in a pitcher from street vendor. Trains arrive at station. Commuters walk through U-Bahn underground railway station, climb up the stairs. View of sign "Untergrundbahn". Men work on heavy machinery in workshops. Men wheel animal meat down the street on a cart made of two large wagon wheels. People busy with their daily routine work.
Berlin, Germany. Views of automobile traffic in street, woman wraps fish and sells to other woman, men waking in busy market streets, two men with wooden beer barrels loaded on a horse cart pass by the street. A man working on beer barrels in a manufacturing unit. Glass beer bottles pass through filling machines. A nurse plays with children in a garden. Tall buildings and complexes with glass windows, tram passes over the railroad bridge while small boats pass underneath. Streetcars, trucks, cars on a busy street. View of a police officer directing traffic. Brief moments of audio from the scenes accompany a few of the images.
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