A U.S. Military Policeman (MP) directs traffic at the U.S. Army Communications Zone Europe Headquarters in France. Aerial views of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military force base. A map shows locations of NATO bases in France. An aircraft flies overhead. Officials communicate over the wireless and telephone in the Chateauroux Air Base control tower. U.S. military airplanes parked on an air strip. U.S. Air Force trucks. Narrator discusses impact on French economy and social issue related to departure of so many Americans from France. French men employed at the base walk as a group heading to or from work at the base. American soldiers with their French wives and families. Soldier with wife and son walking on street with Eglise Saint-Andre church in background. A soldier and his wife in a shopping center as a sales woman helps the couple look at silverware. Closeup view of a LP vinyl record playing on a phonograph record player turntable. An American soldier by the microphone at a Armed Forces Radio network military broadcasting installation. View of the DJ and the control room in the radio broadcasting studio. French people gathered on the streets to witness a marching band on parade from Chateauroux American High School in Châteauroux, France. Flag corps dancers and marching band members playing musical instruments are seen in the parade. View from ground looking upward as an American flag is lowered from a flagpole. View of a triangle folder American flag being held by a U.S. Army Military Police man, as he carries it away.
New Yorkers celebrate Easter Sunday in different churches across the city. A woman GI presents 'By Request' for the Army Navy Screen Magazine' in the United States. Soldiers from New York request a glimpse of Easter in New York City. A large crowd lines the sidewalk, Roman Catholic churchgoers enter the St. Patrick's Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). Civilians and women GIs among the crowd. Cars pass by on the road outside the St. John's Cathedral (1047 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025, United States). Episcopalian U.S. Army soldiers enter the cathedral. Women GIs pose on the cathedral steps. A Gi kisses a woman GI. People emerge from the cathedral. Mount Olivet Baptist Church: Good Friday and Holy Week Service banners at the cathedral entrance. African American families emerge from the Mount Olivet Baptist Church (201 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027, United States) in Harlem. An African American man with his two little girls. The Easter parade on 5th Avenue. Policemen keep vigil. Women in elaborate coats and hats. GIs and young boys in the parade. American industrialist Henry J Kaiser and his wife. Easter flowers on display. New York girls and children.
Views of Paris in the late 1930s, prior to World War II. The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile (Arch of Triumph). The Tuileries gardens (Jardins des Tuileries) with bed of tulips in full bloom in foreground. The Eiffel Tower (la tour Eiffel). The fountain of River Commerce and Navigation at the Place de la Concord, Paris, with the Madeleine church (L'église de la Madeleine) directly behind, the Hotel de Crillon,barely seen at left, and its twin building, the French Naval Ministry, opposite, on the Rue Royale. People strolling and shopping on the Boulevard Haussmann. Awning of Les Deux Magots café and patrons seated at tables outside, in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area of Paris. People relaxing in the Tuileries gardens, with Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and Musée du Louvre in background. An artist at work, seated at a bench in the foreground. The west facade of Notre Dame Cathedral. Parisians looking at posters, reading in parks, visiting bookstores. Sign directing visitors to the Congres des Ecrivains (Congress of Writers) held at Maison de la Mutualité conference center at 24 Rue Saint-Victor, 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.in June, 1935. Several writers seated at a table with others standing around. Closeup of three. Closeup of British writer, Aldous Huxley, wearing eyeglasses. Two writers conversing. Scene shifts to Paris at night. Car traffic on streets of Paris at night. Illuminated sign at Moulin Rouge cinema theatre, topped with illuminated arms of a windmill. Lighted sign of nightclub, Le Rat Mort, in Place Pigalle. Interior of a Paris nightclub with sophisticated clientele. French entertainer musician playing a guitar. An official posting an announcement called "Counseil de Revision," calling for conscription (military draft recruitment) of citizens for military service. Parisians preparing defenses in the city, in front of the Eiffel Tower. Man deep in a trench preparing a shelter. Men carrying sandbags up a ladder to protect a national monument. Copy of the New York Times newspaper annnouncing the German attack on Poland. Copy of New York Daily News announcing fall of Holland. The New York World-Telegram paper announcing capitulation of France. German Panzer II tanks and motorcycle troops entering Paris. German infantry marching through the Arch of Triumph, on the Champs-Élysées. A Frenchman wiping his eyes as he watches the occupying troops. Hermann Goering with other officers riding in an open car along a Paris street. Closeup of Arch of Triumph. Adolf Hitler, accopanied by staff, looking at the Eiffel Tower. Nazi flag flying from the tower. Closeup of Hitler looking around. The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Academic garb, at the University of Virginia commencement ceremony, in Memorial Gymnasium, on June 10, 1940. (FDR's son Franklin Jr. was among the graduates assembled, from the UVA Law School). Roosevelt expresses American sympathy and support for nations invaded by the Nazis. American street scene. Women preparing gifts intended for France. A poster showing a French soldier, entitled: "Le Paquet Au Front." American draftees in training at an army post in the U.S. Smoke billowing from American industrial facilities. Workers at an American shipyard. View of warships under construction at the yard. A Huge gun barrel being moved on special rail dollies, in a U.S. arms factory. U.S. Navy F4U Corsair Production Line during World War II. M3 Lee medium tanks being manufactured in U.S. factory. Closeup of finished one being transported via transverse crane. M4 Sherman tanks moving on flat rail cars. A speeding steam locomotive pulling freight cars. Martin PBM-5 Mariner in flight over an Atlantic convoy carrying war materiel to the United Kingdom. Sailor wearing headset, standing near depth charges at stern of a ship. British Naval Ensign flying from mast of a ship.
Scenes from two World War I Liberty Bond drives. First scenes are in Washington D.C.during World War I. United States Navy sailors march down the Pennsylvania Avenue. A naval band plays and men carrying American flags march down the Avenue. The United States Capitol in the background. Landmarks seen include: Post Office Building and Willard Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. A street car is seen and a sign advertising Kelly Springfield Tires is clearly seen from Pennsylvania Avenue. A newsboy carrying papers (newspaper boy, newsie). A truck with a banner on it to promote the sale of Fourth Liberty Loan. Sailors march and the naval band plays as they move past the Old Executive Office Building. John Phillip Sousa conducts a massive Navy brass band from the steps of the Capitol. Around 1:07 scene change to a Liberty Loan parade on 5th Avenue in New York City. A sign reads "Over the Top. The Fourth Liberty Loan Must be Made a Glorious Success. United Waist League of America." Sign on side of building for C.G. Gunther's Sons Fur Company (391 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan). U.S. Navy sailors among military groups parading on Fifth Avenue. A group of officials including United States Vice President Thomas Marshall and New York Governor Charles Whitman in coats and top hats are seen near the Altar of Liberty during the parade. With them is a U.S. Army chaplain in military uniform with a sign on him that reads "Lend !"
Views of the Berlin Wall under construction in 1961. West Berlin street scene, contrasted to scenes of East Berlin across the border, still showing unrepaired damage from World War II and otherwise lacking development. Views of East German border guards retrieving the body of Gunter Litfin from the River Spree, after his unsuccessful attempt to flee East Germany. A floral tribute to Ida Siekmann, on barbed wire at the border. View of forests in mists. Refugees with their belongings walking from East Germany over a bridge to West Berlin. View of Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. A C-54 transport airplane taking off. Buildings along the border of East and West Berlin with windows cemented shut along the Berlin Wall. Barbed wire at the border. Armed East German border guards across the border. Views of the Berlin wall border wall. Views of the moon, and stars. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,making a forceful point while speaking at a meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York, in October,1960. Seated beside him is Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister. U.S. President John F. Kennedy addressing the UN. U.S. Sailors helping Vietnam refugees from an open stake truck. U.S. soldiers attacking and firing machine guns in Korean War. Two U.S. warships at sea. A physician attending a patient. U.S. representative providing advice and assistance to foreign farmers. The Washington Monument, in Washington, DC. Statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Memorial. Statue of Thomas Jefferson.
A United States Navy documentary about U.S. 7th Fleet and 1st Marine Division in Korea during the Korean War. USS Missouri (BB-63) battleship underway in the Pacific Ocean. Guns mounted on the battleship. Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, 7th Fleet Commander, looks through binoculars. U.S. aircraft on the flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier. Pilots are briefed. Napalm bombs are attached to aircraft. Message "To whom it may concern" written on a bomb. The aircraft taxis on the flight deck and takes off. A Sikorsky H-5 Dragonfly patrol helicopter hovers in the sky in the background. It rescues a pilot who had to ditch his aircraft and hauls him upward to safety in the helicopter. Other aircraft in flight overhead. Aerial views of U.S. Navy A-1 Skyraider aircraft in flight, and views of pilots inside aircraft cockpits.
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