United States Marine Corps in Hawaii. Invitation card of Shipi Dance and Buffet Supper on USS Tarawa (CV-40) at Pearl Harbor. Write up in English on USS Tarawa plaque. Women dance. Navy personnel in the background. Sign reads 'Enlisted Personnel Club -- Coast Guard -- Naval -- Marine Corp'. Officer seated with a badge of 'Board Of Governors' on his uniform. Service personnel and women dance in a ballroom.
United States Marine Air Group at Ewa Marine Corps Air Station, Hawaii. Sign reads 'Marine Air Group' at Ewa Marine Corps Air Station near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Aircraft taxis on an airfield. Marines get off the aircraft. Blinkers operate. Man talks into a radio. Sign reads 'Marine Transport Squadron 352'. Aircraft taxis on an airfield. Aircraft in flight. Aircraft passes over Johnston Island on its way to Guam. Aerial view of Guam Island.
Invasion of Germany by Allied forces during World War and unconditional surrender by Germany during World War 2. At TC: 00:19 thru 00: 21, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring, Commander of Axis forces in Italy, is seen outside a building in the mountains. Rear view of the war-damaged Reichtag building and View of the Brandenburg Gate as Soviet troops occupy during Battle of Berlin. General Dwight D. Eisenhower conferring with an unidentified General. Lieutenant Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley are with him. Soviet soldiers waving to Americans on opposite sides of the Elbe River. American soldiers paddling an inflated boat across the river. U.S. 69th Infantry division and Russian 58th Guard Division troops under Major General Rusakov embracing meet at the Elbe River in Torgau Germany on April 26, 1945. Several succeeding views of American and Soviet soldiers celebrating together. A group of American and Soviet soldiers posing for pictures atop a concrete foundation with a banner across it reading: "Our Greeting to the Heroes Army of United States of America." A battery of tanks firing their guns. Two British soldiers with one pointing in a direction. A Soviet IS-2 tank moving past a burning building. Destroyed street sign pointing at Hamburg. Local citizens waving white flags. Allied armor crossing a bridge over the Rhine River. British Marshal Bernard Montgomery and German General Eberhard Kinzel sign a document of surrender at Lüneburg Heath on 4 May 1945. Civilians moving about on streets of Berlin after Germany surrenders in World War 2. A British soldier posts an announcement from Allied occupying forces declaring the dissolution of the Nazi Party. Closeup of German citizens looking at the announcement. Local people standing amidst rubble near damaged buildings. A British Cromwell tank moving past the camera. Glimpse of a German family. Sherman tanks moving along a roadway. American Lieutenant Generals Leonard T. Gerow and William Simpson in Berlin. Trucks and tanks driving past fires. A long line of German prisoners of war marching beside a field under guard. German General Alfred Jodl and others leaving a car and entering General Eisenhower's Headquarters in Reims, France, May 7, 1945, where General Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff in the German High Command, signs a document of unconditional surrender. Admiral Von Friedeburg of the German Navy, and Major Wilhelm Oxenius of the German General Staff sit beside him.
U.S. 14th Air Force operations in China during World War 2. An animation shows broadening the scope of U.S. air combat operations in China. Chinese Air Force cadets training in the United States. Chinese cadets get into a plane. A Chinese cadet works on an engine. Chinese civilians build an airfield. An animation shows U.S. Army Air Force locations surrounding Japan.
Joint Board of Investigation at the Subic Bay in Luzon, Philippines regarding the collision of destroyer USS Frank E. Evans (DD-754) with Royal Australian Navy HMAS Melbourne (R-21). Australian and American officers on the board include RAN (Royal Australian Navy) Captain John Davidson, USN (United States Navy) Captain Stemhen L. Rusk, RAN Rear Admiral Hugh D. Stevenson, USN Rear Admiral Jerome J. King, Jr., USN Captain Clyde B Anderson, RAN Captain Kenneth W. Shands, USN Board Counsel JAGC (Judge Advocate General's Corps) Captain Horace B. Robertson and RANVR (Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve) Board Counsel Harold H. Glass. The members get seated. The investigation in progress. Cameramen record the event. The Board members seated and standing. USN Rear Admiral Jerome J. King is seated. The Board members talk. Officers have a small conference at the back of the room.
Covers TET observance program by VNAF (Viet Nam Air Force) 33rd Wing and U.S. Air Force Advisory Team No. 1 in Tan Tru village, Vietnam. Vietnamese villagers gather. Arrival of USAF (United States Air Force) and VNAF (Viet Nam Air Force) personnel. A VNAF officer speaks from a podium. Hamlet chiefs receive gift boxes. Vietnamese soldiers carry boxes away from the distribution point and people lined up for food. (Vietnam War period).
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