Scenes of destruction in Italy, during World War 2. Partially obscured by foliage, a ship is seen, anchored in cove on Italian shore of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Wrecked buildings at the shore. A destroyer (probably British) seen briefly offshore . An old woman. Refugees at side of road near a Bailey bridge over the Garigliano river. Sign reads: "Kimble Bridge." Woman with baby. Vehicles pass over the bridge. Civilians walk in streets. Horse-drawn cart passes. A young boy takes the hand of a little girl, as they walk through rubble strewn street and he guides her as they skirt around a skeleton in the rubble. Military tent set up with mosquito netting. ( Note: the area shown is likely in the vicinity of Monturno, near where the Garigliano river empties into the Tyrrhenian Sea. As part of the heavily defended German Gustav Line, this area suffered great destruction during World War 2.)
Camera positions in aircraft P-47. Camera installed behind pilot, under the wing, in the wing, and the wheel well. Pilot's hand at instrument panel. Actor James Stewart reads a passage from a book about the film'Thunderbolt' depicting U.S. Air Forces operations flying P-47 aircraft, during World War II. A ship in a harbor. Ruined buildings at Italian port town. Italian civilians pass on street. Ruined buildings in town. Horse-drawn carts pass along road. Men and women in rubble. Face of an old lady. Refugees on Kimble Bridge. Children in rubble-strewn street. Skeleton of dead bombing victim in rubble. Clouds settled over mountains. A river and waterfall as seen from aircraft. Aerials of town on banks of river. Ruins of Italian towns. Wrecked train. Map highlights Corsica, Mediterranean Sea and Sicily. Island of Corsica. A family with animals being watered at a fountain. Several people posing outside the "Bar Napoleon."Corsican people on street. A graveyard containing German war dead. Man climbs control tower at Alto Air Base in Corsica. Crew at work on airfield. Unfuzed bombs are casually rolled off a moving trailer onto the ground. Man refuels P-47. A soldier sleeps in tent. Men in tents and outside get ready for mission in morning. Airman looks into mirror. Airmen wear uniform and comb hair. Men wash faces and shave. Men brush teeth. Also shows morning activities of a Captain. Aerials of Alto Air Base. Men on look out tower. A Lieutenant smokes pipe. Airmen enter tent and get instructions from officer. Men around chart.
Crowd seated in assembly. Various North Vietnamese men and woman speak at the speaker's stand. Crowd in streets with banners and flags. Picture of various men in newspapers at demonstrations. Scenes from other countries, including one or more Spanish speaking countries in Latin America or South America (signs in Spanish) demonstrating against the United States for its involvement in Vietnam. Also scenes of Anti-war protest rallies against U.S. involvement in Vietnam from other countries including the the United Kingdom and some European countries. Vietnamese girls wave small flags during a rally. Men with banners on road. Various people speak on microphone. Various Vietnamese officials at mike speak to crowd in meetings. Men and women applaud. Anti-war demonstrators in various places in the world with banners. Clip features North Vietnamese propaganda.
American soldiers at a captured Vietcong tunnel complex in the jungles of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. They remove and extraordinarily large amount of war material and prepare to destroy some of it. Conditions are extremely hot and they perspire. Many of them remove their shirts to stay cooler as they engage in this heavy labor.
The signing of the Austrian Peace Treaty brings about the withdrawal of Soviet troops in Austria and the return of POW's from many years in Soviet prison camps, ten years after the end of World War 2. Shows repatriation of German Prisoners of War to Austria as the freed prisoners return in a railroad train. Families of prisoners wait for prisoners' arrival. Women hold hands of prisoners from train windows. A prisoner kisses his wife. A father hugs his son as the boy cries.
Audio only. 'This I Believe' Radio Network Program hosted by Edward R Murrow. Essay on an English mathematician Fred Hoyle. He has taught in Saint John's College of Cambridge University and conducted series of lectures on nature of universe in past. He speaks about visiting church when First World War ended and receiving a sermon telling him to pray to God in thankfulness that the right side had won. But he realized in school that Germans claim the same. Every nation has its own rules of behavior. If a particular action happens to fit in with the rules of society, people describe it as a right or a moral or a just action. Fred Hoyle adds that he personally doesn't believe that the present world can be run successfully on moral principals. He further speaks that people that outgrows its natural resources becomes both a nuisance and a danger because an over-swollen society sooner or later will try to grab the resources that belong to someone else, which of course must lead to trouble and possibly to war. He says that we are so with self-satisfaction at our righteousness that we are failing to appreciate the really important issues.
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