Hindu Leader Mahatma Gandhi meets Muslim Leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah to remove differences between Hindus and Muslims in India. A building in view. Muslim Leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah greets Hindu Leader Mahatma Gandhi. People crowd in the background. Men take pictures. The leaders talk to each other. Dignitaries stand outside a building. Gandhiji holds a paper in his hands leaves. He speaks to a dignitary.
U.S. Army Air Forces Generals Ira Clarence Eaker and Nathan Farragut Twining visit Ploiesti or Ploesti oil fields in Romania during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces Generals Ira Clarence Eaker and Nathan Farragut Twining get off from an aircraft at an airfield. The Generals greeted by Romanian Army Air Force officers. General Eaker and General Twining, escorted by the Romanian officers, visit the Ploiesti oil storage tanks after being bombed by the U.S. Army Air Forces. The wreckage at the oil fields. The bombed tanks. The Generals talk. A view of the bombed Ploesti oil fields.
U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur's heralded return to the Philippines during World War II. A U.S. Task Force underway to attack the island of Leyte. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, seated between U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Theodore Stark "Ping" Wilkinson and Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, Commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet, aboard the Task Force Flagship, U.S. Cruiser, USS Nashville (CL-43) en route to Leyte. Animated map describes the Leyte campaign. General MacArthur standing on the Nashville, smoking his signature corn cob pipe. U.S. warships bombarding the Island. U.S. troops of the 24th Infantry Division and 1st Cavalry Division assault the beach from landing craft, as General MacArthur and his Chief of Starr, Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland, watch from the Nashville. After the beachhead is secured, General MacArthur and President Osmena, of the Philippines, shake hands. MacArthur wades ashore from a landing craft accompanied by President Omena and an entourage of high ranking officers. U.S. troops are seen wading ashore from LSTs. One is numbered 474. Scenes ashore. A water buffalo. Wrecked Japanese tanks. Filipino inhabitants emerging to begin clearing debris away from what is left of their homes. Damaged buildings in Tacloban, .the Provincial Capital of Leyte. Filipino inhabitants gathered under a tent, smiling. President Osmena speaking from the steps of the Provincial Capital building, with General MacArthur and his entourage standing behind.
101st Detachment of Karen troops in Chaungtha, Burma during World War II. Karen troops pull a cart on a pontoon bridge. The troops haul cart across the bridge. A Burmese native on an ox cart. He pulls away the oxen from the cart. The man takes the oxen across the bridge. Few of the U.S. soldiers with ox carts moving along a narrow muddy jungle road. T hey get off from the carts. The troops moving in carts.
101st Detachment of Karen troops in Chaungtha, Burma during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain in flight. The aircraft drops rations for Karen soldiers in a jungle. Several view of aircraft in flight dropping food supplies. Burmese workers being supervised by soldiers carry supplies from drop zones. The coolies carry food supplies using a wooden stick. A laborer tying supplies on a stick. They carry food supplies on the stick. The laborers collecting supplies at a particular place in the jungle.
U.S. troops at Ulithi Atoll in Caroline Island during World War II. U.S. Admiral William H. T. Blandy and staff walk along a beach through jungle area to location where flag raising ceremony is to be held. Admiral and his staff walking. A close up of Blandy with one of his staff. The U.S. troops on vehicles with equipment drive on a dirt road. Palm trees on the beach. Admiral Blandy and his staff walking through the jungle area. A damaged concrete wall in the foreground. The troops and Admiral walk past the damaged concrete wall. They arrive at the area where flag ceremony is to be held. Admiral Blandy salutes as the U.S. flag is raised. A close up of Admiral saluting. The staff and Admiral in a jeep leave the area.
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