Czech civilians pose with some U.S. soldiers of the 16th Armored Division, in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, at end of World War 2, in Europe. They are standing on top and in front of an abandoned German tank. They completely cover the tank, and wave enthusiastically for the camera. Scene shifts to the rear of an M24 Chaffee light tank, with some civilians gathered around it, as it prepares to move out, behind an M3A1 halftrack pulling an M10 ammunition trailer. Views of other halftracks loaded with U.S. troops and equipment. Several American infantrymen gathered at a fence, one pointing out sniper location, while another takes aim with his rifle. American soldier in a 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 (aka, 105 mm Self Propelled Gun, Priest, by the British Army). He is firing its M2 .50 caliber air-cooled machine gun in its raised cupola. Brief glimpse of a Czech soldier aiming his rifle behind a tracked vehicle.
Led by U.S. soldiers in a jeep, a group of civilians with hands on their heads (German civilians being expelled from Czechoslovia or possibly also Czechs accused of collaboration with Germany) are marched under guard by Czech partisans,along a wide cobblestone street in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. View from above in building across the street, as American soldiers escort high-ranking German officers from their headquarters, into a waiting halftrack. Several Czech civilians taken prisoner by a Czech woman carrying a pistol. view from a building on Klatovska street, of American flag flying next door, and American troops in a line of halftracks on the street below. view up the street towards Masaryk square, shows Czech flag flying above the American flag on next-door building. Twin Spires of the neo-romanesque church of St.John Nepomuk on Chodske square in distance.
A U.S. Army jeep rolls slowly in front of a group of civilians with their hands raised in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, at the end of World War 2, in Europe. They are guarded by Czech partisans and Czech citizens. (The civilians are likely German civilians during expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovia at the end of the war. They may also include Czech civilians accused of collaboration with the Germans.) Two U.S. soldiers walk on sidewalk with a Czech policeman. The soldiers stand in front of a group of civilians on the sidewalk, looking upward. An elderly Czech civilian man with a rifle looks upward from edge of a building. A German officer is seen in window of a building. A white cloth (as flag of surrender) hangs from adjacent window. Armed U.S. soldiers escort high-ranking German officers, from their local headquarters, to a vehicle, as local citizens watch. U.S. soldiers and Czech partisans in a backyard, look for snipers in building nearby. German military prisoners, guarded by Czech partisans, stand with hands raised on a sidewalk. The partisans search German soldiers as they come out of a building. Some civilian women are held with the German soldiers.
Allied Generals meet in Ludwigslust, Germany at end of World War 2, in Europe. Formations of British and U.S. troops pass in review. Russian, U.S. and British Generals review the troops. U.S. Army Major General James M. Gavin, Commanding General ( CG ) of the 82nd Airborne Division, U.S. Major General Matthew B. Ridgway CG 82nd ABN, Lieutenant General Miles Dempsey Commanding General British 2nd Army and Soviet Colonel-General Ivan Tikhonovich Grishin, Commanding General 49th Soviet Army, at the reviewing stand.
A film titled: 'Flood weather' on the working of weather bureau in the United States. Snow covered area. Mountains in the foreground. The weather bureau gathers information about the weather and gives early warnings to people. A map locates different areas. A member of the weather bureau working to collect the information. He reads and records the information with the help of gauges. A man working with the help of cable and transmitter. The information is recorded for the purpose of providing the same, as and when required. The exterior of a building. A ship underway at sea. Smoke from the stacks of the ship. A map locates different areas.
The working of weather bureau in the United States. View of the harbor and skyline in Saint Louis, Missouri. Buildings in the background. Ships underway at the Mississippi river. Some ships docked at the harbor. Smoke from the stacks of an excursion steamer ship. Scene changes to a steamship on the Ohio River at harbor of Louisville, Kentucky. Change of scene again to skyline of Cincinnati Ohio.
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