United States Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's 1926 arctic expedition. Cameraman sets up motion picture camera on tripod atop a floating ice floe. Expedition workers float the Fokker trimotor aircraft, named, "Josephine Ford," ashore. Only its nose engine and wing are installed. Later, after being fully assembled, the engines are started. Floyd Bennett and Richard Byrd, conversing, over the roar of the engines. Team members having a meal near the airplane.
While United States Navy Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's North Pole expedition prepares for its flight to the pole and back, the Dirigible, "Norge," positioning for the Amundsen-Ellsworth 1926 Transpolar Flight, is seen in flight over Kings Bay Spitsbergen. She passes over the Byrd Polar Expedition camp and proceeds to land and be moved into her protective hangar at her own expedition camp, nearby.
French and United States soldiers on the streets in Paris, France after the Liberation of Paris during World War II. Civilians gathered around a statue. They cheer and applaud. An army truck in the center of the crowd. A French soldier kisses a girl. Civilians and soldiers gather in front of a church with the flag of France in the foreground.
French General Charles De Gaulle marches on the streets in Paris, France after the Liberation of Paris during World War II . A huge crowd cheers as the procession moves ahead. People watch the procession from the balconies of their houses. French and United States soldiers drive past in army vehicles. The crowd waves at them. German snipers open fire from a building near by. People on the street run for shelter. They hide behind cars. French soldiers try to put the situation under control by directing the crowd.
Plans and preparations made by the Germans during World War II. United States troops arrive at a beachhead on landing crafts. A soldier with the American flag. Scottish troops play bagpipes. A map shows the Allied and the Axis territories. The French flag flutters on a pole. French troops marching with rifles in hand. They join hands with the Americans. The map shows the French, the British and the Americans on one side fighting against the Germans.
Animated map shows the Japan Sea. Military Police at the Omori Prisoner of War Camp after Japanese surrender in World War II. Views of Japanese war criminals in Omori Prisoner of War Camp. Among those seen are Hideki Tojo, Colonel Hashimoto, General Koki Hirota, General Kuroda, General Homma, and others. They are seen eating inside the prison. But Tojo is shunned by the others (because of his blundered suicide attempt) and eats alone. Hideki Tojo eating alone in prison cafeteria. United States soldiers hunt for valuable Japanese treasure in a Japanese barnyard. They find bricks of silver in an underground sealed room. Valuable metal worth millions of dollars are found from defeated Japanese. A pile of silver bricks.
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