Film opens showing two German women holding a basket of flowers, and scattering them on pavement in advance of a German military parade of Panzer III tanks, through a residential area of Berlin, Germany in World War 2. German civilian spectators line both sides of the road. Women throw flowers at the passing tanks, each of which has a German soldier standing in it dressed in a special uniform with a sash, and holding a flag. Brief closeup of older man and woman standing by a German soldier in uniform. Crowd occupies a town square and watch as the tanks pass them. Closeup of an old man watching the tanks. Camera pans to an open windows of a building where many very young children watch the parade. View from high vantage point showing long line of tanks and sidewalks filled with enthusiastic spectators. Closeup of the crowd rendering the Nazi salute. Adolf Hitler seen standing hatless, with arms crossed, in an open vehicle with two guards and a flag behind him. Another closeup of arms being raised in Nazi salute by everyone in the crowd. Abrupt change of scene to Berlin after its capture by Soviet forces late in World War 2 following the Battle of Berlin. View from high above of German civilians massed in a crowd where Soviet soldiers are distributing loaves of bread to German citiznes. Closeup of German civilians struggling to get some. A Soviet woman soldier taking bread from a truck for distribution. German civilians standing on a sidewalk next to a Soviet army truck. Closeup of a Soviet army woman soldier distributing blocks of food from the truck to civilians in food relief effort. Another Soviet woman officer stands overlooking the crowd. Closeup of German woman holding a soft straw shopping bag. Soup kitchen or soup line scene where a Soviet soldier is using a large, long handled ladle to put soup from a large pail into an old woman's pot. An old woman walking slowly along a street, where fires are burning
New York City motorcycle policemen gathered on a city street in readiness to escort Harry S. Truman upon his first official visit to the city as President. He is seen riding in an open car, accompanied by Secret Service agents and several U.S. Naval officers. New Yorkers line the sidewalks to catch a glimpse of the President. Workers, of the 32nd Street Western Cafeteria, line the sidewalk in front of their restaurant in the Chelsea neighborhood. The Presidential motorcade crossing the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn, and then turning into the gate of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Sailors lining the Navy Yard roadway presenting arms. Military personnel, yard workers and others fill the Navy yard. The President's flag hoisted on the USS Franklin D Roosevelt. Hundreds of Navy officers and sailors all in white hats, salute in unison. All sit to listen to President Truman's remarks. Scene shifts back to the streets of Manhattan, as policemen control spectators lining the sidewalks. Brief view from a car moving along the path of the motorcade.
Responsibilities and duties of U.S. military personnel towards United States Kadena Air Base and Japan. Okinawa-The Keystone of the Pacific. Two U.S. military enlisted technicians look through a microscope. A nurse talks to a technician. U.S. Airmen work in an airplane maintenance shop. A female U.S. military NCO works as a clerk. U.S. Airman works on a machine and spray paints a missile. U.S. Airman drives a truck in Air base. Pilot puts on mask in cockpit of his fighter plane. A U.S. transport airplane takes off from the air base. A U.S. fighter jet takes off from air base. View of sunset on Okinawa.
U.S. Battleships cruising in the Pacific. Close views of naval 16 inch gun barrels Navy personnel manning radio and teletype stations in a communications center. (They are shirtless, presumably due to heat.) They receive a message from General Bruckner, Commanding General, 10th Army, to Admiral Turner, Commander, Task Force 51,praising the active naval support for U.S. ground forces. Scenes of naval gunfire of all types. Japanese aircraft hit and burning. A U.S. naval 16 inch gun fires and produces a giant smoke ring.
Eastern Front battle of Soviet army as it repels the German Wehrmacht from a Soviet city, and captures German POW's. The German prisoners are marched into Soviet camps in winter snow covered landscape under guard of Russian Army soldiers. Aerial view of massive invasion force in English Channel on D-Day for the the Invasion of Normandy. View from landing craft of American infantry going ashore. Allied soldiers taking fire from German enemy during D-Day beach landings. Allied armies moving inland through France seen in combat with Germans in French villages and towns. Many German prisoners rounded-up and seen marching toward prison camps under British and U.S. Army guard.
Flag raising ceremony at Southern Tip of Okinawa in Mobuni Town. United States Marine Corps General Roy Stanley Geiger and Marine Corps Major General Pedro del Valle talk. (Del Valle was the first Hispanic to reach the rank of Lieutenant General). Major General Del Valle talks with other Marines. Other Marines in the background. Sign shows where the last organized stand was made by the Japanese Army on Okinawa. Two Marines in the background. General Stilwell talks to an officer. General Stilwell climbs up hill. Mountains in the background. Raising flag at spot where Japanese made last stand on Okinawa. Marine General Stillwell and Marines saluting as flag is raised on top of flag pole. Marines salute. Sign in the foreground. Flag on the flag pole. General Stilwell addresses a group of Marines at flag raising ceremony. General Stilwell and Marine Generals talk. General Geiger talks with General Del Valle and another General at ceremony. General Stilwell and Marine General talk. Group assembled around flag pole.
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