Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division and the 502nd Infantry Regiment (502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment) arrive at an airfield for troop carriers in World War II. The troops happily wave with their helmets at the camera as they carry supplies. Some of the paratroopers’ faces are darkened. The paratroopers crowd to hear orders of the day. Some of the paratroopers’ helmets are seen with the distinctive heart shaped symbol of the 502nd Infantry Regiment. Paratroopers put on their life vests (Mae West) and chutes. The jump master gives out last minute instructions. Three paratroopers with blackened faces discuss plans. Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton bids good luck to a paratrooper chaplain and a medical corps officer before the paratroopers board their Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Paratroopers climb aboard the transport plane. General Brereton presents a paratrooper with a rabbit’s foot as a good luck charm Nose of Douglas C-47 Skytrain “That's All, Brother” (N88874) before taking off for Normandy, France on D-Day.
Major-General Thomas Gordon Rennie, Commander of the British Third Division, inspects landing craft preparations on the Solent strait at Gosport, England. Soldiers, vehicles, and supplies crowd on landing craft deck. A tank parks on landing craft deck. LCTs, destroyers, and other vessels anchored a day before D-Day. Barrage balloons flying above the ships. A crewman signals using flag semaphore above the deck. Camera moves to deck where soldiers are seen resting, playing card games, smoking, sleeping, beside vehicles as they wait for departure. A soldier reads a France guidebook. British soldiers reading books and eating and drinking. Some British troops sleep and chat under trucks.
A U.S. Navy Destroyer escorts landing craft infantry toward invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. More landing craft infantry are seen in the distance. A U.S. cargo ship, most likely an attack transport ship, is seen with the flotilla. A landing ship, dock (LSD) is shown sailing close by.
Clip begins showing four U.S. military personnel: A U.S. Army Brigadier General, a Navy officer, an Army soldier, and an Army officer. They are aboard a ship underway in the English Channel for the D-Day invasion of France in World War 2. The camera moves back and forth between the left two men and the right two men, before focusing on the left two men at the end. In the final moments of the clip, the Navy officer points to something off in the distance.
UN Forces and U.S. Marines fight North Korean and Chinese Communists and advance towards the Manchurian border, during the Korean War. A soldier on a hill top. Soldiers with antiaircraft guns on hills. Soldiers march through villages. The fleeing Reds set fire to their former stations. Huts on fire. Soldiers on a road. A soldier smokes while riding a bicycle. United States Navy P2 Neptune bombers fire rockets on over Red positions. Fire and smoke from the explosions. Communist Prisoners of War (POW) at a UN camp. The prisoners are screened and treated for diseases. Men wear surgical masks during the process. They are provided rations and food.
Counting of votes after the 82nd Congress Elections. Men and women calculate the results. An Election Commissioner impounds and rechecks the voting machines. Two men seen inspecting voting machines. New York Republican candidate W Kingsland Macy smokes a pipe. View of New York Democratic candidate Ernest Greenwood. Newspaper headlines about Governor Democrat G Williams' win against Harry Kelly. Williams shakes hands with a supporter. Exterior of the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. The 82nd Congress in session. View of senate chamber as narrator describes near even Democratic and Republican split in the Senate. Former Governor of New York Democrat Herbert Lehmen returns to the Senate. Closeup view of Lehman. View of the Congress House of Representatives in session. Additional exterior views of the Capitol dome and the Capitol building in Washington DC.
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