Draftees of the United States Army at an Army camp during World War 1. New recruits move towards an assembly ground near the military quarters. Draftees assemble as marching troops. The military leaders inspect the troops from a reviewing stand made of wooden tables.
Draftees of the United States Army at an Army camp during World War I. Cooks prepare food for the new recruits in training at an open mess area. Draftees move slowly carrying utensils for food. Cooks give meal to all the draftees, spooning out beans onto plates. Group of World War I soldiers of the United States Army carrying their rifles, march past a bridge. A boy in uniform walks beside them.
View of first atomic explosion (Trinity) on July 16, 1945, at New Mexico, United States. View of the battleship, USS Missouri, in Tokyo Bay, Japan, with entire ship's company on deck in dress whites, Japanese military high command and several formally dressed Japanese diplomats standing on the ship's deck. Brief closeup of General Douglas MacArthur. Japanese foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, bending to sign the instrument of surrender ending World War 2, on September 2, 1945. Supreme Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, seated, signing the document. Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright and British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival stand behind MacArthur. General Hsu Yung-chang signs for China. View of sailors observing the historic moment from every possible place aboard the ship. Large numbers of aircraft flying over the ship. Scene shifts in flashback to Manila, Philippines, where dead bodies of civilians litter the streets in silent witness of Japanese wartime atrocities. Some have hands tied behind their backs. Views of destitute Filipino mothers and children wandering through the rubble. A sign identifies the 98th Evacuation Hospital. Inside, a doctor and a nurse stand over the bed of Japanese Prime Minister, Hideki Tōjō, who attempted suicide by pistol, when apprehended, but was taken for treatment and is seen resting in his bed. View of Japanese Adrmiral Shigetarō Shimada, Minister of the Navy, behind bars in prison. Also seen in prison are Japanese general of the Japanese Imperial Army and Governor-General of the Philippines, Shigenori Kuroda;. General Masaharu Homma; and militarist Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto. Scene shifts to bodies of numerous victims of German death camps. American Army medics attend to some survivors rescued from the camps.
A VC-137 Stratoliner residential aircraft of the United States Air Force One parked at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland near Washington DC. Crewmen at the base. President of United States Richard Nixon arrives in a helicopter and walks towards the Air Force One plane. The new name of the plane 'Spirit of 76' written on its nose. Pilot of the plane looks from cockpit as President talks to an official and poses for a photo. President Nixon walks over loading ramp and climbs stairs of now the plane. He turns and waves to the crowd. Crowd of men, women and children watch the plane taking off.
British forces in Japan celebrating British Empire Day after conclusion of World War II. Marching troops of Commonwealth forces at British Empire Day ceremony in Tokyo. Marching troops and bands of Cameroon Highlanders, Indian Troops, Royal Air Force from England, troops from New Zealand, Australian troops. Commander in Chief Lieutenant General John Northcutt and other officers review the marching troops.
Training regarding relief and rebuilding works in Germany and Japan by United States Army, after World War II. Narrator discussing adoption of American inventions for use against America and allies. German U-boats operating under seawaters bring destruction to a ship. American Wright brothers with their invented airplane. London burning after blitz raids by German aircraft during World War 2. Atomic bomb explosion over Japanese city of Nagasaki and mushroom cloud seen from the air. Also view of Trinity blast in New Mexico - the first U.S. atomic test. The atomic cloud rises high and vast in the sky. Narrator warning against the perils of a third world war.
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