A documentary depicts combat activities of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division during World War II. 'APO Tokyo' written on a tank. U.S. troops on tanks and jeeps enter Tokyo soon after end of World War 2. The jeeps and U.S. military vehicles driven on a war torn street of Tokyo. A sign board reads '1st Cavalry Division, First in Tokyo'. Two soldiers stand in front of the board and shake hands. The troops carry guns and flags of the Cavalry Division parade. Insignia of the 1st Cavalry Division.
Question marks on screen. Reconstruction of the buildings and denazification in Berlin, Germany after World War II. A factory in Germany. A farmer leads a horse to plow a field. Men at a farm cultivate crops. The wreckage of the IG Farben plant. Men speaking to Hermann Göring. The trial of Norwegian leader and Nazi collaborator Vidkun Quisling. The rail goes on for the criminal. People burn Nazi books and pamphlets in a bonfire. A man burns a pamphlet with a photo of Adolf Hitler. The people stand around the burning books. German civilians read a poster on a wall. General Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Marshal Georgy Zhukov of the Soviet Union, and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery of the United Kingdom sign a joint agreement. The three of them stand together. The United States Capitol building. Chongqing National Government building in No. 232 Renmin Road, Chongqing (Chungking), China. The Big Ben in London, United Kingdom. Aerial view of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. General Francisco Franco saluting to marching soldiers in Spain. The delegates including United States President Harry S. Truman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin, and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated around a table during the Potsdam Conference in 1945. They discuss the problems. A close up view of Truman looking into some documents. Stalin smokes a cigarette. The delegates discuss problems. The funeral ceremony of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The soldiers fire guns. President Harry S. Truman attends the ceremony. Churchill salutes from a moving vehicle. Women voting in the United States. Truman gets off an aircraft. Delegates in the Potsdam conference. Newspaper headlines read Russian declares war on the Empire of Japan in 1945. The first atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima, Japan. The newspaper headlines about the war. Truman, Stalin and delegates at the Potsdam Conference. Soldiers advancing in the battlefield. A flag of the United States and people celebrate the victory. Newspaper headlines feature the surrender of Japan.
Japanese troops surrender to British forces in Singapore at the end of World War II. A view of the England naval base in Singapore. The Japanese troops at the base. A Japanese guard with a bayonet. Japanese troops putting barricade away. A view of the city. The British troops disembark a ship. The troops with guns on their shoulders walk on the port. Singaporean civilians greet British troops on trucks. Starved British prisoners cheering from behind a fence. A prisoner smokes. The prisoners light each other’s cigarettes. The Singapore prisoners at the Japanese prison camp. Several views of the prisoners showing emaciation under Japanese captivity. Emaciated British prisoners of war only wearing white fundoshi or Japanese undergarments. British General Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives for a meeting. Japanese delegation lead by General Seishiro Itagaki enters a hall for the meeting. The Japanese delegates and British officials in a hall for the meeting. Mountbatten investigates the surrender document. Itakaki signs the surrender document. People seated during the meeting. The British troops stand in formation in the background. The British flag is raised. (World War II period).
German prisoners aboard USS Wakefield in the Atlantic Ocean during World War 2. A Coast Guard enlisted man in foul-weather gear and a white hat shows two POWs ( Prisoners of War ) how to make an eye splice at the end of a rope. Young German prisoner of war works on his eye splice technique as the Coast Guard sailor teaches him. Several POWs , some older and some younger, look as a Coast Guard man shows them how to splice rope. Several prisoners leaning against the railing of the ship. German officers including army, navy, and Luftwaffe officers walk on the deck.
Hippies demonstrate against the Vietnam War on the north sidewalk of the White House in Washington DC. Long haired hippies and their things on Pennsylvania Avenue along a sidewalk in front of the White House. Anti-war demonstrators pass out leaflets to pedestrians. A sign on a poster: ' Vigil for Peace'. The White House in the background. A hippie plays a guitar. Two other young men sing along. A sign on pamphlets reads 'Protest The Escalation, March To The Capitol, Sat. May 13. Demonstrators play guitars and pass out leaflets to the pedestrians. A sign "In the name of God stop the war". Some protestors sleep on the sidewalk and smoke.
Arrival of rescued Allied prisoners of war at Tacloban Airstrip, Leyte, Philippines in World War II. USAAF Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft parked at airstrip. Ambulances backed up to C-46s. C-46s loaded with wounded soldiers (prisoners of war) rescued by U.S. rangers on Luzon. Men carry wounded soldiers on stretcher and transfer them into ambulances. Ambulances drive on airstrip, aircraft in the background.
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