A prison camp for Allied airmen at Dulag-Luft near Wetzlar, Germany. Views of German officers who ran the prison camp in World War II. Allied prisoners of war enter wooden building marked "staged Door Canteen". Liberated prisoners shake hands with some of the U.S. soldiers who were captured in the town. Many prisoners wearing bandages and on crutches. Plane fly over camp area. Prison camp, group of liberated prisoners wave and smile in front of signs indicating distances to London, New York and others.
Activities of U.S. forces in Korea during the Korean war. Several North Korean soldiers (prisoners of war) are walked up mountainous terrain under the guard of U.S. Marines. They are questioned and display documents. U.S. Marines moving single file up a mountain trail in full combat gear.
Between World War I and World War II, so-called barnstorming was popular. Here a wing-walker stands on wing of a Curtis "Jenny" JN4 biplane, preparing to transfer to another , in flight.
A flight of three U.S. Navy TBF Avenger aircraft from VT-15 on USS Essex are seen in formation flight in the Pacific theater during World War 2. (Note: sequence ends with extraneous narration and glimpse of bomb burst at night over German target in World War II, Europe.)
Allied invasion at Salerno, Italy, during 2nd World War. Scenes of U.S. Sherman tanks, military vehicles and troops, moving easily through Sicily. Animated map depicts allied invasion routes from Bizerte, North Africa, to two points on opposite sides of Italy mainland. Convoys emerge from smoke screens in bay of Salerno, Italy. Allied warship creating heavy black smoke screen. Decks of LSTs crammed with trooops and vehicles. Allied warships bombard Salerno coastline. Commandos, Rangers and Seabees, in first assault wave are targets of German guns and dive bombers. Pontoon boat dropped from LST, with 35 Seabees aboard, strikes a mine, and is destroyed, setting off conflagration on the LST. Other LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) discharging vehicles to the beach over floating causeways, under enemy fire. Destroyed U.S. Sherman tanks, vehicles and a U.S. P-40 aircraft , litter the beach. A Seabee uses semaphore flags to direct an LST to beach area. Seabees build shelters for war materiel and dressing stations where allied wounded are treated. Seabees continue to unload supplies to beachhead. Brief view of Lieutenant General Mark Clark, 5th Army commander, on the beachhead. Allied casualties being tended. Stretcher bearers carry wounded. Allied troops advancing on roads in Italy. Admiral Moreell, chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks, concludes narration of the Seabee documentary, from his office in Washington, DC
In New York, United Nations mediator, Folke Bernadotte returns to Zion for final settlement of Arab-Jewish War. People come out from a building at airport. Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator, and his wife Estelle Manville talk at the airport. UN mediator, Bernadotte, leaves in a plane for Rhodes to achieve a truce for Arab-Jewish War.
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