The U.S.Navy submarine AL9 performing high speed maneuvers on the surface, during World War 1. What looks to be a camouflage paint scheme is where paint has been abraded away by the sea. Toward the end of the sequence, a Pennsylvania-class "Super Dreadnaught" battle ship is seen in the background. (Note: During World War I, Captain of the AL-9 was Captain Percy T. Wright, and the Executive Officer was Commander Terry Brewster Thompson, who later wrote about the exploits of the AL-9 in his book entitled "Take Her Down".)
A large number of passengers aboard the ocean liner SS Manhattan (later USS Wakefield) in the United States. Scene from January 10,1938 as the USS Manhattan returns from her Europe trip. A large number of passengers aboard the ship. U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany, William E. Dodd, is interviewed by media persons about his Europe trip. He declares that living in Europe at the time is discouraging and there is crisis in Europe as German Nazism and Fascism are gaining ground everywhere. In next shot, from 1939, the ship is underway and arriving at New York Harbor on September 30, 1939, carrying 1837 persons, its largest passenger count ever. The passengers include many Americans from overseas fleeing war-torn Europe early in World War 2. A sign on the ship: 'Manhattan United States Lines'. The passengers in mass numbers at a harbor. The Statue of Liberty in the background.
Activities of the U.S. Army Military Police during the Korean War. MPs are active in Operation Little Switch repatriation effort involving exchange of prisoners of war. A sign on an entrance gate: "Welcome, Gate To Freedom". Military Police (MPs) standing at the entrance gate to Freedom Village. The U.S. and UN flags and Korean flags fly from flag poles. Red Cross vehicles arrive. Wounded are carried on stretchers. Men walk with belongings. Korean prisoners board buses. Red Cross workers transfer the wounded. (Operation Little Switch was a first phase and was followed by Operation Big Switch in August 1953).
German prisoners of war march in Austria at the end of World War 2, in Europe. They march in loose formation in the roadway, over the Nibelungen Bridge (Nibelungenbrücke, 4020 Linz, Austria), in Linz. Several women bring up the rear of the formation. Some German civilians are seen, carrying belongings, going the opposite direction, on a sidewalk on the other side of the bridge. The Danube River is in the background. The formation of surrendering German soldiers turns at end of the bridge and proceeds through the town. A convoy of trucks in the background. American soldiers follow the formation and others are seen along their path. Civilians watch as they pass.
Tank battle at Soviet Union front during World War II. Map of battle front in Soviet Union. German German armored half-tracks and Pz.IV tanks move on a snow-covered field. German planes in formation, overhead. German Nashorn and Hummel SP guns in action. Troops move on an open field. A German soldier watches through binoculars. Soviet decoy tanks (fabric skin of tank over a frame object to disguise and make them appear like real tanks) and damaged Soviet tanks on the ground. Tanks fire artillery. Smoke in the background. Soviet prisoners of war being walked. German Panther and Tiger tanks advance on a field.
The troopship USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176) is seen being guided by tugboats as she makes her way to the pier, while carrying U.S. troops back home from Europe at end of World War 2. View of the upper deck jammed with soldiers, waving happily. A large banner is displayed showing Division patch of the Tenth Armored "Tiger" Division and the key places they operated in Germany as the first im General Patton's Third Army in Germany, during the war. More views of soldiers waving. Many stand in the ship's lifeboats. Troops carrying their gear in dufflebags as they disembark from the ship. Friends and relatives standing behind a fence waiting to greet the returning soldiers.
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