View of PA speakers on ship during World War II with announcement, "now hear this...the objective of this task force is the Palau Islands." United States 81st "Wildcat" Infantry Division troops on ship deck listen intently to announcement of final orders regarding their attack of Angaur Island. United States 81st Infantry Division officers study map of Angaur Island. Finger points to Red Beach on map of Angaur island, where the 322nd regiment will attack, then points to Blue Beach where the 321st regiment will attack. Admiral William H. P. Blandy and General Paul J. Mueller (misidentified by narrator as "gen. Miller") discuss battle plan. Soldiers listen to further instruction. Soldier sharpens trench knife. Soldier test fires flamethrower over side of ship.
A Ghanaian student walking to her university in the United States. Sign reads “Chapel Hill site of the University of North Carolina which first opened its doors in January 1795”. The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus grounds (Bell Tower, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, United States). The Ghanaian student joins with a group of white female American students on their way to class. A book (Theatres and Auditoriums) on table. A professor conducts his lecture. Cigarette smoke in classroom as student watches lecture. The African student opens and writes on her notebook. A Japanese student listens to the professor. The professor points to a diagram on the board using a ruler. American students walking on campus. Ghanaian student walks to the university scene and costume shop. Sign reads “The Playmakers Scene Shop and Costume Shop”. The Ghanaian student looks at costume sketches with other costume design students. A professor assists the students during their practicum. The professor and a student insert pins on a mannequin. Ghanaian student talks to a girl wearing glasses. The professor helps the Ghanaian student with sewing costumes. Sign reads “Department of Dramatic Art”. A woman enters the door of the department. Theater Arts students in costume rehearse for a play. Students working with sounds during a television production course. Ghanaian student with headphones during her practicum. An actor dancing on stage. Ghanaian student directs a live presentation of a school play while her professor acts as a cameraman using large video camera on tripod. “On The Air” sign turns on. Theater Arts students acting in a Shakespearian play. Ghanaian student acts with a female professor in a modern play in front of other students.
Native children surround an outrigger during the evacuation of Bikini Atoll in Operation Crossroads (U.S. nuclear weapon testing program). Two children watch men tie an outrigger. Men pushing outrigger on shallow water towards a United States LST. Men carrying bamboo poles into an LST. Bikini Atoll natives sit around on outrigger on board an LST. Some of the natives are seen talking and smiling. United States sailors are also seen on deck. View of Bikini Atoll port and coast before evacuation of natives.
A United States Army soldier walk past a gate in Cologne, Germany during World War II. Destroyed streetcar parked near the road. A Jeep with soldiers passes by. Tanks, trucks, and soldiers move along the street. Destroyed vehicles and houses on both sides of the road. The convoy of tanks pass through a roadblock. Sign reads “Köln” (Cologne). Trucks driving on cobblestone road. Sign at building reads “König Brauerei” (König Brewery). United States troops observe piles of debris and march along cobblestone roads. Two American soldiers resting, one of the soldiers lying on his side.
U.S. Army Major General Maurice T. Rose awards the officers and men of the Third Armored Division in Cologne, Germany during World War II. The award ceremony takes palace in a former German athletic stadium (likely Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne). Major General Rose pins medal on a soldier and inspects troops. Military band plays music in the background. Major General Rose awards medals and shake hands with medics. Soldiers with United States flags. The general addresses troops of the Third Armored Division. Troops listen to Major General Rose at the stadium. Major General Rose boards a United States Army staff car. The staff car drives away. Third Armored Division troops holding flags and marching at the stadium.
German civilians watch the arrival of United States Army 4th Division Jeeps and vehicles in Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany during World War II. Civilians tearing down roadblock. German civilian men and boys form in a line and pass rocks from roadblock down the line (like a bucket brigade), piling them at side of the road. German boy smiles. One German man smokes a pipe. U.S. Army Jeeps and an M4 tractor towing 155mm gun past the roadblock and through the village streets. German civilians clearing the road for United States Army.
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