During U.S. Navy's Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica. A tracked vehicle moves on snow in front of Observation Hill. (This area would become Mcmurdo Station.) A Military Air Transport Service (MATS) C-124C Aircraft taxis down sea-ice runway and turns around to takeoff . It makes makes a long takeoff roll and breaks ground with slow rate of climb, churning up a fog of snow in the process. . Small weasel with small trailer with fire extinguisher on it. Navy R5D Aircraft in the background taxiing for take off. R5D taxis. Yellow fuel truck is seen. R5D makes a jet assisted takeoff. Flame is seen from the JATO bottles under the aircraft during takeoff roll and much trailing smoke, as the aircraft breaks ground with a high rate of climb.
Officer and soldiers examine barbed wire torn apart by Vietcong who infiltrated Long Binh ammunition dump. M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier on guard. Destroyed and burned out ammunition pad shows burned out 105mm howitzer shells. Wrecked ambulance with flat tires. Blood stains in ambulance. Back view of jeep with open doors. (Vietnam War period).
Scenes of Vietnamese people as they flee Hue during communist siege of the city in 1968 Tet offensive during the Vietnam War. Refugees with belongings run as city is bombed. Houses burned. Woman cries after crossing remains of a destroyed bridge over river. Scenes changes to one year later: Long line of Vietnamese on way to newly discovered mass grave on March 25, 1969. Vietnamese civilians dig and on March 27, 1969 they begin to uncover bodies in the sand which show signs of torture. Locals try to identify dead. Second mass grave uncovered. Dead bodies and body parts. Third mass burial uncovered. Men at local authorities meeting. Assembly point for hundreds of coffins. Incense burning. Mourners at coffin. Coffin opened and woman looks at remains. Flowers and incense burning on coffins. Buddhist ceremonies shows coffins prepared for procession. Women grieve. Shrine at cemetery.
Civilians with their belongings flee from plague and famine affected areas in Soviet Russia not long after end of World War I. Horse-drawn wagons pass on road. Refugees wait for evacuation boats near the Volga River. Famine victims in rural Kasan, Soviet Russia. Victims and children die due to starvation in their mothers' arms. An old age lady starves with a boy leaning against pole. Men, women and children together outside tents. Hungry children crowd around a soldier giving out morsels of bread. American Relief Administration supplies being unloaded from train at railroad station. An armed military guard stands nearby. People queued up for food. Steaming hot soup or stew is being served to citizens. Children receiving food in the soup line and eating . Malnourished children examined and assisted by relief experts Dr Vernon Lyman Kellogg and Elmer Burland.
The interior of building shows dignitaries in Paris Peace Conference of 1919. United States President Wilson, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George are seated at a long table. President Woodrow Wilson, Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando, Prime Minister Clemenceau, and Prime Minister David Lloyd George step outdoors. The four leaders pose outside the building.
Many native peoples in a field, Uganda, Africa.A bull tied with rope around its neck. Natives pull on rope around bull's feet, causing it to fall down with feet and legs tied in opposite directions.Natives look at bull.Native women and children sit in field, as the women weave baskets.One woman smokes a very long pipe. A European man in pith helmet takes photograph of several native men
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