Boxing event at 1936 Berlin Olympics, Germany. Crowd cheers the boxers as they battle it out in the ring. The bantamweight match is between Ulderico Sergo of Italy and Jackie Wilson of the United States. Sergo wins the Gold medal defeating Wilson who takes the Silver medal. Italian commentator covers the match.
Peaceful scenes of pre-war England, showing a church with sheep grazing on its lawn, and a college building with ivy growing on the walls. In contrast, explosion and results of German bombing is shown, with buildings collapsing and ruined from the German blitz over England. A long line of Chinese soldiers marching along the Great Wall of china. Shadows of three Japanese bombers flying over Chinese landscape. On May 4, 1942, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek decorates American fliers who made the first attack on Tokyo in World War 2. Wearing a Chinese decoration around his neck, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who led that raid by U.S. B-25 bombers from the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, poses with Madame Chiang and others of his group. Scenes of Moscow, Soviet Russia, including a T-70 light tank moving rapidly along a city street. A Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber taking off in a snow storm. U.S. troops on a halftrack in North Africa. British artillerymen firing a 25 pounder in the desert. Glimpses of smoke rising from enemy strikes at cities in England, Russia, and China. Scenes of destruction from bombing. Brief street scenes of unharmed and intact towns and cities in the United States, including brief New York City scene of pedestrians and traffic in Times Square. Defense workers in America going to work at Ranger Aircraft Engines factory (later part of Fairchild Aircraft and Engine Corporation), and a star flag showing war service by worker families. Farmers in Western U.S. harvesting grain. Railroad trains and river barges carrying harvest from U.S. farms. Herds of cattle and sheep being raised for the war effort in Western U.S. Aerial view of orchards and farms in America. A mining bucket filled with iron ore. Barge carrying the ore. A steel mill in operation. Scrap iron being recycled. View from production floor of U.S. bomber aircraft being built in a defense plant. Countless freight cars in a railroad marshaling yard at a port, where a tug boat and a freighter are seen in the water. War materiel piled up at the port. A convoy of supply ships underway.
Film 'Sunset in the Pacific' shows United States Marine Corps photographers taking pictures and filming motion pictures in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Night view of a huge explosion. Two photographers shoot still pictures from behind a rock. Marines advance on beachhead. Combat cameraman with a 35 mm movie camera crawls over ground and into a trench. Flood waters flow through a valley, smashing into homes and shacks. Photographers shoot stills with speed graphic. Movie studio camera operator using 35mm motion picture film camera on platform or boom to capture motion picture film images of a American Legion Parade in New York City. Legionaries march with the American flag in hand. Two camera operators film couples dancing in a ballroom, on what appears to be a Hollywood movie set. Band plays in the background. Sailor watches as chief photographer explains working of 35mm movie camera.
A motion picture film explores the background of World War II. In the United States a view of a large hyrdoelectric dam with water gushing through its gates. Electrical towers of a power plant and a man throwing large switches to activate power. Newspaper headlines: 'Senator oppose the league of nation' and 'Senate passes tariff bill by 44 to 42 vote'. A crowd holds posters of Dewey, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and other leaders. Books of competing ideologies for sales in the United States, including those of democracy, socialism, fascism including Mein Kampf and books about Stalin. Voting time in Germany with Hitler as the only candidate and signs promoting Hitler. Germans casting voting ballots for Hitler. People burning books in Nazi Germany. A church in America or Britiain with close up views of a boys choir singing hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers." Children in America playing at a playground on a jungle gym and slide. A girl makes a drawing of natural scenes. American children smiling, playing, and running.
Viet Nam Air Force ( VNAF) C-47 Skytrains airlifting supplies from Tan Son Nhut Air Base to Rach Gia for flood relief in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A VNAF soldier talks to two U.S. Army officers in a jeep. One of them is Lieutenant Colonel Norris. Then the jeep drives away. VNAF flight officers in the background. A pilot boarding a VNAF C-47 aircraft. A Vietnamese airman giving signals to the pilot. The Vietnamese pilot in the cockpit. The engine starts and the C-47 taxis. C-47s lined up. VNAF C-47s taxi out. A VNAF C-47 is fueled, a door closes on the aircraft before it taxis out.
Americans watch Pioneer style covered wagons arriving from the West, at gathering in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to celebrate the United States 200th Anniversary. . parade during United States 200th Anniversary. Boy seated on grass in a park, watches A cattle-drawn Prairie Schooner wagon as it passes, carrying women in Pioneer attire. A man walking accompanies the wagon. Other similar wagons pass, pulled by horses decorated with festive harness. Girl seated on man's shoulder watches wagons as they pass in a wooded area. One has "Findley,Ohio" written on its side. Most display American flags. An elderly gentleman smoking a pipe, takes pictures with a movie camera. Men, women and children seated on wagons. A number of participants are riding on horseback. A man in Colonial dress is interviewed. People from different Nationalities watch the parade. One man (unseen) tells interviewer he is from India. An elderly man and woman ride past in a wagon decorated with a garland of flowers. A small child claps as she watches from shoulders of an elderly man. More wagons pass the camera. View from hillside, of crowd watching as wagons begin to assemble to make camp in field below. Closeups of wagons and spectators. Some persons speak to interviewer as they are photographed. Fiddlers and a guitar player are seen playing country music. Children participating in a sack race Spectators watch from a packed grandstand at the field. Closeups of children in a pie-eating contest and of country musicians playing as folks watching clap hands in rhythm.
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