The preparations for the D-Day invasion of France by Allied Forces, during World War II. Ships and war boats at British harbors and ports carrying ammunition and warfare materials are readied for invasion. Landing Craft Vehicles (LCV) and DUKW ready at the harbor for invading France.
Wrecked railroads, Coal mines, power plants and factories being rebuilt and rehabilitated in Germany after World War 2. Railroad trains moving on tracks in Germany soon after World War 2. German civilian workers repair rails and tracks destroyed by Allied bombers. German workers in a tire factory build railway and automobile tires, in Munich. Trucks manufactured at a truck factory drive out of the factory. People lined to see some of the items produced for export. British occupied Ruhr Valley. Wrecked Krupp factories in Ruhr Valley. A German steel smelting plant in operation, workers pour molten steel. Coal cars leave Ruhr Valley. Animated charts show production and export of coal during 1937 and 1946. German miners enter and leave mines. Miners eat and take half of their food out to German children.
First armored division, the 'Panzer' unit of the United States army display war maneuvers at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Twenty visiting South American Army heads and their mistresses saluted by a parade procession. They watch from stands the tanks and armored division during the military exercise. Soldiers on jeeps fire mortars and display other war equipment.
Nisei persons, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at the Manzanar War Relocation Center (internment camp) during World War II. Helmets for football game picked up by players. Children play football in a dusty ground as parents watch sitting on stands. Players during a baseball game, during a basketball game on court and an athlete practicing weightlifting at the relocation center. Children dive in a pond near relocation center during swimming classes. Girls in uniform walk out of a training center. Japanese-American children undergo fine arts training with scenes showing a student learning piano, another student painting, and sculpture. A man feeds scorpions in tank in a Science Fair exhibit. Sign outside a building a the camp reads, "Office of Reports. Free Press" where the camp newspaper is published. View of front cover of an issue of the Manzanar Free Press.
Basketball court at Standdown Center during the Vietnam War. War weary soldiers of 1st INF division of United states Army play basketball. A soldier makes a basket. He dribbles the ball against a sloping roofed building and makes another basket.
Prisoners of war at a Japanese camp remove weeds from a field during World War II. A man gathers water from a jug. Prisoners having their meals together. A Japanese official offers cigarette to Allied POWs. Prisoners smoke cigarettes.
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