Berlin, Germany at night. Views of International Congress Centre tower, night view of streets. Large poster at theatre advertising the film Die Herrin Von Atlantis (The Mistress of Atlantis) with Brigitte Helm (released in Berlin in September 1932). Many lit nighttime and neon signs and buildings including Cafe Am Zoo, Automat, Michels, Capitol theatre showing a film starring Elisabeth Berger and Rudolf Forster and directed by Paul Czinner (Possibly Dreaming Lips or Melo -- both released in 1932). Platz Hermann Tietz. Wintergarten theatre and show chorus line or chorus girl line women dancing inside. Fireworks show over water. German band playing brass instruments with some band members sitting on top of the shoulders of others. Beer taps filling beer steins. People drinking liquor, smoking and dancing in groups at various locations. Female bartender and show girl wearing hat "Haus Waterland" mixes drink while dancing side to side. Dancing girls in a line at the Haus Vaterland nightclub, with band Sid Kay's Fellows playing in the background (led by Sigmund Petruschka and Kurt Kaiser). A man and a chef share a sausage on a platter. Brief moments of on-location background sounds during some scenes.
Helicopters supporting activities of U.S. Army Combat Teams from Eighth Army in Korea. Soliders digging on a hillside as a rescue helicopter lands near them. Helicopter dropping off reinforcement soldiers. Helicopter picking up wounded soldiers. Four men bring wounded soldier towards the helicopter and then it takes off. Another helicopter carries ammunition and other supplies in a cargo net and drops them at a site. Soldiers unload the boxes and place them on the ground.
Smoke rises from a village in Tabu-Dong. 81 mm mortar crew and 3rd 8th Cavalry Regiment soldiers fire WP shells. Ammunition bearer getting load of mortar shells. Removing mortar shells from container. Bulldozer working on gun entrenchment for 105.
8th Cavalry Regiment in Chilgok, South Korea. Soldiers from the 8th Cavalry regiment sit and hide on the stream side. A M4 Sherman tank moves on the road and firing from one of its mounted machine guns. Soldiers move cautiously off the road as the tank moves on the road. A soldier without helmet walks over the rocks.
Soldiers of 105th CA (AA) Battalion being decorated in Sicily, Italy. About a dozen members of the Battalion march abreast, across a grass field, towards the officers. Brigadier General Clift Andrus, artillery Commander of the 1st Infantry Division, pins silver stars and other decorations on the soldiers. The 105th CA (AA) Battalion is seen drawn up in formation in the background. The 105th CA AA was a battalion, not a regiment. It was attached as a separate battalion to the First Infantry Division for the North Arican and Sicilian campaigns and then to the Thirty-sixth Infantry Division for the Italion campaign. My source is over 100 letters written home by my father during those campaigns.
American 5th division infantry in Gourock, Scotland. U.S. Army Infantry soldiers with barrack bags walk towards the waiting railroad trains at train station. View of men leaving the harbor and army vehicles in the background. Infantrymen walk toward the baggage cars. Enlisted men throw bags in the cars, while several soldiers get into the train. Women serve beverages to the people in the train. People look out of the train and wave as the train leaves the station.
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