A parade in New York City welcomes returning American olympic team and honors Jesse Owens for his outstanding performance during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The New York City Police band plays at the parade. A motorcade follows the band. Men in cars. Two men sit on top of a car. Elevated train crosses the street above the parade which ran from The Battery to Randalls Island.
March 6, 1945 A bulldozer drives toward an overturned tank truck as a jeep speeds past in front of it. The dozer slowly moves past the wrecked tank truck. A tracked vehicle (weasel) drives down a hill, pulling a trailer. Closeup of Japanese mortar shell with fins, laying in some straw. Closeup from rear, of U.S. marine firing a weapon (possibly a "grease gun") from a protected position. Another marine holding an M1 Garand rifle.
Front view closeup of U.S. Marine posing with a Browning M1917 30 cal light machine gun. He is positioned in a dug in emplacement. View from behind, of two marines at the gun. View from side of two marines manning another 30 cal machine gun, next to some ammunition cannisters. A front view of the marines and the machine gun. The marines smoke cigarettes. More closeups.
USS Oriskany in Korean waters. U.S. Navy Chance Vought F4U Corsair fighter bombers on the aircraft carrier. Freezing temperatures ice the deck of USS Oriskany. Airmen clear the iced deck with shovels. Ice covered deck gun. Planes in flight. The planes reach Korean shores and drop bombs. Machine gun and rocket fire over supply routes, railroads, coastal shipping, supply dumps, troop concentrations and transport columns. Clouds of black smoke due to the explosions. GIs arrive at the Do-BONG ORPHAN ASYLUM in Korea. Korean war orphans run to greet them. Soldiers distribute warm clothes to the children.
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. 4th of July at Point Barrow, Alaska. An Eskimo village. Natives climb up a rope ladder. They take their place on a raised platform with the United States flag flluttering atop. Esquimau man and woman. H. Liebes and Co., a whalebone and fur company in the village. A 104 years old Esquimau woman. An Esquimau man, 'Happy Joe' and another man display their face ornaments.
U.S. Army assault on Hill 875 South West of Dakto, South Vietnam. U.S. soldiers of the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment's 2nd and 4th Battalions move up trail through woods for the assault. Officer stops and talk to a soldier. Other soldiers join them. A soldier talks on radio. The troops pause until supporting strikes are made ahead of them before moving forward. They repeat this action several times until they reach the summit, now abandoned by the enemy, leaving only wreckage, a tangle of burnt bush and trees and a charred corpse. Soldiers carry a rolled litter. (Vietnam War period).
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