A boxing match in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. World Light Heavyweight champion John H. Lewis fights with another boxer in a boxing ring. Spectators seated in the stands. He drinks water after the first round. American Boxer John H. Lewis. 'Tony' Galenio from Orange, New Jersey seated on a barrel. The match between John H. Lewis and Tony resumes. Tony lifts up the barrel and shows his confidence.
Top Democratic luminaries at a $100-a-plate fundraising dinner of the Democratic Party in Washington DC. Democratic politicians at dinner tables with their wives at the venue. View of former United States President Harry S. Truman. The dinner is also attended by four front running Presidential hopefuls. View of Senator John F. Kennedy. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn; Governor Robert Meyner of New Jersey; Democratic party Chairman Paul Butler talking to Senator Hubert Humphrey; Senator Lyndon Johnson with Jacqueline Kennedy seen on his right at a table; Senator Stuart Symington seen at a dais.
A film titled 'Atlantic review # 2' shows NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization ) students in a radar class in Netherlands. A man marks path of an airplane on a large plotting board. Students of various countries at NATO aerodynamics school. Plane model placed in test chamber. Mock combat exercises take place as NATO servicemen operate radar and other equipment in control room. Students at Track and Beacon school in Holland as they learn about tactical air navigation. Radar blimp flies off from Lakehurst, New Jersey. Radar men work on controls to check radar screens.
Steamers on the frozen River Neva deliver food supplies sent by foreign relief organization to Petrograd, Russia during period of Russian Revolution and World War I. Soviet Russian children stand next to ship 'Marcus' from Newark, New Jersey, USA. Men unload food supplies. American relief administrator Colonel Haskall looks at a map. Food sacks being transported along snowy streets by horse drawn sled and sleigh. Civilians walk in snow covered streets, bundled in warm winter clothing. People gathered together in the cold eat hot food in the streets of Russia.
Summary of World War II events and formation of the United Nations Organization. Soviet troops on Eastern Front of Europe fire artillery on German positions in 1944. Russian troops advance. German soldiers come out of buildings and surrender. Allied Forces land in France on D-Day. Allied troops and tanks fight Germans on streets in towns and villages of France. U.S. Army tanks fire at German positions. Various groups of German prisoners of war march along roads and are herded into prison camps operated by American and British forces. In 1945, the Allied leaders meet at Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula to discuss Allied military strategy in the final months of WWII. Leaders included British PM Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The meeting of U.S. and Soviet Russian troops at the Elbe River. German Nazi Swastika symbol blown up in explosion atop Zeppelinfeld Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. Aerial view of Berlin in ruins, as seen from low-flying aircraft flying directly over the Unter den Linden boulevard and the Brandenburg Gate. Wrecked and bombed German buildings seen everywhere. German officials signing surrender instrument at Rheims. U.S. President Harry S Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Potsdam Conference. U.S. Marines battling on beaches of Pacific Islands. Iconic shot of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima. Aerial view of bombed and ruined city of Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese surrender to MacArthur aboard the battleship USS Missouri. General MacArthur speaks aboard Missouri. Victory celebrations all across the world, with some scenes from earlier V-E Day (Victory in Europe) day in May 1945, including crowds celebrating in Paris, France, and some scenes on V-J Day (Victory over Japan day) in August 1945. Crowds on streets celebrate. Happy crowds jam streets. Delegates of Nations, among them Andrei Gromyko and Vyascheslav Molotov meet in San Francisco and create a United Nations organization. Truman arrives at signing of UN charter. Various delegates sign charter. U.S. troops disembark troop carrier ships at U.S. ports and are discharged after completing military service in World War 2. Group of U.S. Army soldiers exits a church (the Chapel at Fort Dix, New Jersey), waving their discharge papers in hand.
USS Hancock in a carrier task force in the Pacific during World War 2. In opening scene camera tracks a Fletcher class destroyer moving at hight speed past the USS Hancock (CV-19). Scene shifts to the Hancock flight deck, where F6F aircraft are taking off. Camera pans across the water and shows the battleship, USS New Jersey (BB-52) and several destroyers underway. Back on the flight deck, an F6F is taxiing with folded wings, escorted by several aircraft handlers. They park the aircraft.
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