The United Nations Conference opens in San Francisco, California near the end of World War 2. Flags of the participating nations. U.S. President Truman speaks to the UN delegates from Washington DC. Cars outside the venue of the conference. Personage at the conference include South Arabian delegates, North African Prime Minister and Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, China's Foreign Minister TV Soong, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, U.S. Secretary of State Stettinius, Andrei Gromyko, Jan Masaryk, Lord Halifax, Molotov and delegates from India, Mexico, Lebanon, Greece, Chezoslovakia, Egypt and Netherlands. Photographers take pictures. Typists work at typewriters in Associated Press Headquarters room. Telephone operators at switchboards. China's Foreign Minister TV Soong, Soviet Russian Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden each address the conference.
Italian partisans execute Mussolini. Body of Mussolini on a street of the village Giulino di Mezzegra in Italy. Italian soldiers near his body. Early pictures of Mussolini from 1938 to 1943. Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in 1943. Pictures of Mussolini some time before his death. (World War II period).
German atrocities during the World War II. General Eisenhower, General Patton and General Bradley inspect atrocity scenes in German prison camps. Dead bodies. The Generals and the civilians enter into a room. Dead bodies piled in a heap. Gravediggers dig graves and take out remains of the bodies. Red Cross Flag flies at a concentration camp. The U.S. Medical troops help the people rescued from the camp. They lay an emaciated man on a stretcher. The man joins his hands. Rows of emaciated dead. German civilians march towards the camp. They carry dead bodies on wooden planks. Dead bodies in a mass grave.
A South Vietnamese attack on a Red Vietcong stronghold leads to the capture of smuggled weapons south of Saigon, Vietnam. A helicopter lands near South Vietnamese soldiers. A cache of arms. Soldiers near boxes of ammunition. An International Control Commission inspects the captured smuggled weapons. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Marine Forces in action. The Marines on the streets of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. They get into the U.S. Marine Corps helicopters. The helicopters take off. U.S. Marine Forces in South Vietnam. The Marines patrol the area. A Vietnamese soldier. U.S. Marine trucks. A sign reads 'Da Nang'. Sacks of supplies. The Marines arrange equipment. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Forces guard West Indies Oil during the World War II. U.S. Military men load bombs on a U.S. Bomber plane. The bomber takes off and in flight over the Caribbean Sea. Pilots in the cockpit. A ship in water. Officers of the U.S. Military at the Aruba Oil Refinery in West Indies. Supplies and equipment of the U.S. Military.
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