Towing of Royal Navy Phoenix units (Mulberry Harbor) across English Channel for D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. British Corvette underway. Phoenix unit being towed by tugboat. LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry) pass in the background.
United Nation Forces monitor the Gaza Strip and the Sharm el Sheikh area during the Suez Crisis.United Nation Emergency Force (UNEF) officers with Egyptian and Israeli officers in the Gaza Strip and the Sharm el Sheikh areas. A jeep with the Israeli flag arrives. Troops loaded on a vehicle. Smiling UNEF soldiers with an Egyptian soldier. A tank. Egyptian forces reoccupy the Gaza strip and raise their flag.
The Secretary General of the United Nations visits Israel. The second Secretary General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld deplanes at Lod Airport (present day Ben Gurion Airport) in Israel and is greeted by local officials. Hammarskjöld's car is escorted by motorcycle outriders. He enters a building with officials. Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion seated in a conference room with officials. Among those present at the table, in addition to Dag Hammarskjöld, are Golda Meir, David Ben-Gurion, and Ralph Bunche.
A military film report on the capture of Myitkyina airfield in Myitkyina, Burma by U.S. Army 5307th Composite Unit nicknamed Merrill's Marauders during World War II. A trooper sets up a sign which reads 'Los Angeles City Limits'. U.S. Army Air Force airplanes taxi and land on a muddy airstrip. U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell deplanes and congratulates Commander of 5307th Composite Unit General Frank Merrill. A letter on a bulletin board thanking U.S. OSS (Officer of Strategic Services) Detachment 101 for providing services during the capture of Myitkyina airfield.
Operations of United Nations troops in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. Army Major General, William K. Harrison, Jr, and U.S. Navy Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, arrive at Panmunjom for initial peace talks with North Korean military officials. They walk past several tents and enter one. North Korean Officers walk across a field, with other structures and tents visible in background. In complete, unrelated change of scene, a contingent of the Philippine Expeditionary force is welcomed by Maj Gen Robert H Soule, Commanding General, 3rd Division and Philippine Colonel Dionisio Ojeda, who both exchange salutes with the troops on September 5, 1951. Various views of the Philippine troops being reviewed by General Soule, and in several formations. Closeup of a Philippine Captain at the front of some troops. General Soule and Colonel Ojeda standing in front of a tent, accompanied by other Philippine officers and a military photographer. Infantrymen of the 3rd Division firing rifles and M1919 Browning .30 caliber medium machine guns from cover in brush. Allied troops walk along the sides of a road. (Narrator says "A brief lull came to an end with Operation Cleanup.") A Patton tank loaded with infantrymen getting a lift uphill. Another moving downhill. Views of American tanks firing rounds in hilly terrain. An American soldier using a periscopic artillery range finder. Aircraft making bombing runs over the ridgeline. Next, United Nations forces are seen establishing defensive positions along the so-called Jamestown line. Tanks and infantry are deployed and seen in hardened bunker positions.
Medical units of U.S. military units in Iwo Jima, Japan during the Battle of Iwo Jima, World War II. Wheels of jeeps and other vehicles as seen moving over a dirt road. The vehicles are used as sealed ambulances. Several vehicles parked in the background. Several marines standing and walking near the parked trucks, jeeps and other vehicles in the far background. The marines carry an injured man on a stretcher near a parked field ambulance. One of the marines holds a glucose bottle. Several large tents in the far background. The wounded marine is carried into an operating room.
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