North Korean propaganda film shows scenes at the end of World War 2, as Soviet liberating Army arriviving at Pyongyang railroad station in North Korea and being welcomed by the Koreans. Locomotive train pulling into train station with passenger railroad cars. North Korean people cheer Russian Army soldiers and tanks as they pass by them. Russian tanks and soldiers parade through the streets of Pyongyang. North Korean leader Kim II Sung addresses a mass meeting. North Koreans operate farm equipment, harvest and pack rice. People celebrate a good harvest as they dance and play traditional musical instruments. A Korean river and a concrete bridge over it.
Exercise Cirrus, an air exercise for the Allied air forces in Central Europe, that ran concurrently , part of the time, with Exercise Jupiter, a three-day, French-directed war game involving Allied forces in Europe (principally Germany). A band and honor guard are seen prepared for the arrival of senior air commanders at Wiesbaden Air Force Base, West Germany, involved in Exercise Cirrus. Glimpse of C-47 aircraft lined up on the field. A United States Air Force C-54 transport aircraft taxis into the airfield ramp with engines one and four shut down. A North American T-6 Texan training aircraft is seen in the background. The C-54 circles to where a greeting committee of Allied Air Force officers is standing. Closeup of the aircraft door being opened and a rolling stairs being placed at the doorway. Inside of door displays insignia of States Air Forces Europe (USAFE). Exiting the aircraft is Lieutenant General Lauris Norstad, commander in chief, of USAFE, with headquarters at Wiesbaden, Germany. (On April 2, 1951 he assumed additional duty as commanding general of the Allied Air Forces in Central Europe under the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers in Europe.) He is accompanied by General Bjarne Øen, Chief of the Norwegian Air Force. As they descend the stairs, they are greeted by a group of officers including: Major General Truman H Landan, Deputy Commanding Officer, USAFE ( United states Air force in Europe ), Lieutenant General Robert W Harper, Commander, U.S. Air Force Air Training Command, Colonel Rich, chief of Staff 12th Air Force and Colonel Roberts, Commanding Officer Wiesbaden Air Force Base. After mingling and conversing, Generals Norstad and Oen and their escorts exchange salutes with the color guard. A car arrives and Norstad and Oen step into it and and drive away.
Graphic: "This film is restricted". Group of industrial smoke stacks emitting smoke and pollution. Aerial view of Hoover Dam. Large power lines coming from Hoover Dam. View of George Washington Bridge in New York City with traffic. Aerial view of early highway interchange. Aerial view of Manhattan, New York City and New York City skyline. Aerial view of smoggy city with railroad switching yard in foreground. Early highway crowded with car traffic. People wading in water at the beach. People looking out from high vantage point. 1939 World's Fair Trylon and Perisphere. Interior view Grand Central Station or early Penn Station railroad train station. Porters and travelers walking in train station. View of Egyptian ruins and pyramids. Ruins from 300 BC. Moving timeline graphic depicts dates of modern advances in geometry, arabic numerals, physics, and industrial revolution with electricity, chemistry, railroads, telegraph, and automobiles. Factory with smoke stacks, pollution, and view of a large grain elevator. Foundry with sparks flying. Line of turbine generators. General Electric company building with GE logo on top. Dr. Irving Langmuir works in a lab at the plant demonstrating creation of thin films of oil in a pan. View of Noble Prize won by him for his research about the basic structure and behavior of molecules. View of non-reflective glass demonstrated on General Electric meter. Scientist with beakers and test tubes. Scientists in laboratory and looking through microscopes.
'Navy and the fourth Liberty Loan' Navy band plays and marches in Washington DC, United States. Navy Band from the Great Lakes Training Staation seen outside Union Station train station after arrival. Lieutenant John Philip Sousa with two other officers. Drum Major MF Tennant instructs the band. Men and women enter the newly built Navy Building. Exterior views of new building for Department of the Navy. Cars parked outside the building. United States Secretary of Navy, Josephus Daniel and Rear Admiral Thomas Jefferson Cowie address a gathering regarding Liberty Loan drive outside the State Navy and War building.
U.S. Coast Guard sailors lined up to board a railroad train in United States, bound for a flood ravaged area. Boats loaded on flat railroad cars and the train moves away to flooded area providing relief to the victims. A large stadium seen in the background. Supply boxes piled up, men load boxes of relief supplies onto a U.S. Coast Guard airplane. Aircraft takes off to provide supplies to flood victims.
Opening scenes are in Marietta, Ohio: Houses submerged in water, people along a railroad track. Men carry a boat, people in boats taken to safer place from the flooded city of Marietta, Ohio. People board a railroad train as they flee from the flooded city. Stretchers carrying injured victims are loaded into train. Scene changes to Cincinnati Ohio, with many parts of the city submerged under flood water. Water flows under the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge, also called the Ohio River Bridge (and later the Roebling Suspension Bridge) at very high level. Houses submerged in water. Aerial view of the city with water all around. Men load their belongings onto a truck. People rescued and carried away in boats to safer places. Police help rescue a woman and a baby. 750,000 people rendered homeless. Houses and industrial buildings submerged in water up to roof lines. Men in boats move through city streets. A boat passes by a stop light at same level due to extreme high flood waters. View of the submerged doorway of the Queen City Hospital in Cincinnati. Vehicles are used to pull cars and trucks out of flood waters.
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