During World War 2, three pilots of Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) stand in front of Billboard displaying their squadron symbol of a red devil with spear and cape. It also displays silhouettes of Japanese ships they had struck. View of the newly constructed airstrip at Ulithi, as an F6F aircraft takes off. It is followed, in turn, by a C-47 (R4D),a PBY, and another F6F. Aerial view of Ulithi and the new broad runway running across the atoll.
Views from dock in New York and from aboard ship as the SS Marine Flasher arrives in New York on May 20, 1946, after departing Bremerhaven Germany on May 11, 1946. Crowd of people gathered to greet passengers getting off the ship. Scenes show jubilant people and some reunions of family members or relatives. The passengers are largely displaced persons and refugees from World War 2. People disembark the ship. A woman with her child stands in front of a hatch. Three women aboard the ship pose. A woman kisses a man. People meet their relatives. People leave with their luggage. The luggage of the people with tags. Luggage tags with name (Ingeborg) Inge Rummeni of 824 North 38th St. Milwaukee Wisconsin on them. A woman and a child show concentration camp number tattoos on their arms from a Nazi German prison camp.
Allied troops in Italy during the Operation Shingle Italian campaign of World War II. Several LSTs (Landing Ship, Tanks), trucks and soldiers at Anzio. Army trucks backing into an LST. A 155mm gun is pushed into an LST by a M4 High Speed Tractor. Several soldiers beside the gunr. Columns of soldiers boarding the craft. The LST backing into the water. A Catholic chaplain with hands folded. The Chaplain with the soldiers during the consecration of the Mass. The stern of the LST. An LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) beside the LST. The task force is attacked by German dive bombers. Numerous bombs exploding in and around the ships. The LCI underway at sea. An LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) loaded with troops underway at sea. A few LSTs on the beach. Amphibious vehicles in the background. The landing craft on the beach. Dead Germans lying on a street. Columns of German prisoners marching on a path. View of the prisoners wearing trench coats and caps. In Cassino, Italy : British troops fire artillery during the Battle of Monte Cassino. Small mud houses in Cassino. Several explosions in the area.
A United Nations Security Council session held in Lake Success, New York during the Cold War. Representatives of different nations are seated. Britain's representative to the UN Alexander Cadogan and Soviet Union's representative on the United Nations Security Council Andrei Gromyko seated next to each other. A delegate speaks on the 1947 UN Partition Plan of Palestine which recommended 'the creation of a special international regime in the City of Jerusalem, constituting it as a corpus separatum under the administration of the United Nations.' He speaks about Jewish settlement in Jerusalem. Representatives of different nations seated.
Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii. Animated map depicts the location of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. The crater of Kilauea filled with molten lava. Roads being made on cooled lava. Men jump over lava crack. Vapors rise from lava. A lake of molten rock. Men standing at the edge of lava. The molten lava is constantly boiling, Molten rock glow at night. View of Kilauea volcano.
Boys of the Madison Square Boys Club seen boxing in New York City. Two boys in line at a weigh-in scale to be weighed before a match. Cheering boys and girls. Two boys in a boxing competition. They are cheered by girls and boys. A masseur massages a young boy after the bout.
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