Newsreel titled 'Complete Victory on Guam'. The United States Marine Corps (USMC) firing at Japanese soldiers at Point Chonito. Trees destroyed by firing of the soldiers. General Holland Smith of the USMC watches his men advance and capture their position. Dead Japanese soldiers at their hideouts. Destroyed posts and watch towers of the Japanese forces. The USMC soldiers salute the U.S. Flag raised after their victory. (World War II period).
Newsreel titled 'Britain Digs Deep to Flee Robot Bombs" (V2 flying bombs). British civilians evacuated to an underground 'Deep Shelter' in London, avoiding bombing over civil areas by the Nazi German Luftwaffe aircraft. Civilian men, women and children in the underground bomb shelter. A mother feeds milk to her infant. People can be seen cooking, socializing, and asleep in the shelter. (World War II period).
Newsreel titled 'US Haven from War'. Civilians greet, as a train carrying 982 European Jewish refugees arrives at Fort Ontario, in Oswego, New York. Men, women and children wave their hands, from inside the train. Old man drinks milk handed him by a woman. War Relocation Authority assist a descending woman and patient on stretcher out of the train. Refugee children at the refugee camp after escaping Europe in World War II.
Documentary titled 'One Millionth Security Check'. A woman representative of The Social Security Board at a house in Parma, Ohio. She gives the check to Mrs. Mary Thompson, the widow house mistress. Mrs. Thompson shown holding a number of Social Security checks. Two children of Mrs. Thompson, a girl and a boy playing with a wagon in garden outside the house.
Newsreel titled 'Favorite Wins Trot Classic'. Civilians wearing hats move in to witness The Corn Tassel Derby harness horse racing in Goshen, New York. Horse race starts with participants giving tough competition to each other. Various trotting carts on dusty tracks during successive laps of the race. Yankee Maid wins the race and spectators rise from their chairs to cheer the winner.
Civilians including men, women and children killed by Nazi soldiers in Stavelot, Belgium during World War II. Caskets with the dead bodies. Lumps of dead bodies at a place of shelter blown by Nazis (the civilians had taken refuge in basements and the Nazi soldiers had thrown grenades into the basements). Frozen dead bodies of women and small children. A woman weeps. Common grave for burial of all victims. Man brings stiffened dead body of a small child. A man checks names of the dead and priest says last prayers before burial.
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