American servicemen are kept informed by newspapers and radio telecasts. In Guam, Mariana Islands : a serviceman seated at a table in a room listens to a radio and writes a letter to his wife. A radio disc jockey hosts a musical show and plays songs for listeners from a studio. In Korea : a soldier reads Stars and Stripes newspaper while getting a haircut. In South Vietnam: mechanics read a newspaper. Newspapermen work and write for the Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes newspaper. In Thailand : American servicemen watch a sports program at USO Club. A video taping technician works with recording devices at a television station. American soldiers watch a television show. A television engineer controls a program on air at the American Forces Korea Network. A man works on a typewriter.
U.S. President Richard Nixon visits Manila, Philippines. Malacanang Palace as seen from the Pasig River. Boats sailing on river. Interiors of Malcanang Palace shows Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos delivering a speech from a podium. He shakes hands with President Nixon. President Nixon speaks from the podium.
Nazi stormtroopers (SA or Sturmabteilung or brownshirts) parade in Germany. Nazi officers march giving Nazi salute to start the event. The Nazi stormtroopers parade past their leaders.The German soldiers carry flags based on the Imperial War Ensign (World War I) design which had been adopted following the National Socialist Machtergreifung, or “Seizure of Power”, on 30 January 1933. Nazi officers on sidelines give arm salutes, except for one who renders classic hand salute to forhead. He looks around at all the others and jokes about it.
Rudolf Hess, Deputy to German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, in an appeal to all the world's leaders in the struggle for Nazi ideals, delivers a speech in Koenigsberg, Germany, stessing the peaceful intentions of Germany.
Germany invades France, during World War II. German troops invade French town of Marquion, in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region. Horse-drawn carriages loaded with French refugee families and belongings move along a road. Street signs on road number 15 point toward Sauchy-Lestrée 2 km away, and Avrincourt, 12 km away. A chalk drawn arrow points toward Arras. French families evacuate using bicycles, baby carriages, and wagons. German troops arrive on motorcycles. Numerous German Pz.I, Pz.II, Pz.III and Pz.IV tanks pass through the village. Smoke rises from a burning building.
U.S. troops liberate Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany towards the end of World War II. Corpses lying in the camp. A club used by German soldiers to kill the inmates. Furnaces in crematorium to burn the human bodies to ashes. Liberated prisoners run toward a Nazi soldier to hit him.
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