Activities of Parisians in Paris, France. Close up view of two French girls in the city talking. They share cigarettes and smoke as they talk.
Activities of Parisians in Paris, France. French men and women get into a U.S. Army vehicle. French men waving from military trucks. People in a horse drawn carriage. French people crowd together in moving wagons. People ride on a horse drawn vehicle. People ride on wagon.
Boxer George Carpentier meets U.S. soldiers in Paris, France. Us soldiers stand beside a jeep. George Carpentier greets and talks to U.S. soldiers. He smiles.
Two British War Brides of United States Servicemen on board the SS Argentina after World War II. Woman doting on her baby. Three women sit together as their infant children sit on their laps. Woman smiles as she and her infant daughter look at the camera. Two smiling women holding their children, the woman on the left with an infant and on the right, a female toddler. The women and their children have dinner together onboard. Toddler in a play pen playing with a doll. A mother comforts her crying child on the playpen. A child with wavy hair uses a potty for potty training. The SS Argentina. British women disembark the SS Argentina. Women being interviewed by an immigration officer. The other British women lined up behind. British women reunite with their US servicemen husbands and mothers-in-law in the American Red Cross Auditorium.
An American serviceman and his British wife look at their crying daughter on the right reuniting after World War II. Husbands and wives with their babies posing happily together. A British woman, part of the War Brides who arrived on the SS Argentina to reunite with their American servicemen husbands, is in a podium with her American serviceman husband, who is holding their baby. The British woman speaks about some societal disapproval of foreign marriages like hers and said, “Love is love, all over the world”. Reflecting the postwar ethos, the American serviceman adds, “This is a beginning of a new life for me”.
Opening slate “U.S. Moves Chinese Troops”. In Shanghai, American Navy Personnel spray insecticide, probably DDT, on Nationalist Chinese soldiers using hand pumps after World War II, probably as a delousing measure. The DDT insecticide powder is sprayed into the uniforms and heads of the soldiers. The 26,000 Nationalist Chinese soldiers, part of the United States-trained Nationalist Sixth Army, are mostly bald. Chinese soldier carries supplies in his shoulder and a puppy left arm. 26,000 Chinese Nationalist soldiers, carrying equipment, are led to ships heading to Manchuria to deter Soviet invasion.
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