British car driver Campbell sets new world record. He drives his sport car named Bluebird at 246 miles an hour at Daytona Beach in Florida USA. Other cars escorting the Bluebird. Campbell congratulated.
British Members of Parliament (MP) visit sites of German atrocities including Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen after the end of World War II. The Members of Parliament at a concentration camp witness piles of dead bodies of German prisoners, a whipping block, the crematory ovens. The MPs also visit the Belsen camp of political prisoners. Starving and dead prisoners at the camp. Ground near the camp covered with dead bodies. A mass grave with piles of dead bodies. Dead bodies of prisoners burnt, shot, fired, and trapped in barbwires. Scenes of Chief Warden and commander Josef Kramer, Gestapo guards, and women guards of the Belsen camp arrested. Security guards of the camp arrested. Escaped prisoners of a Stalig near Leipzig guide the MPs towards more jails and dead bodies killed when trying to escape the burning building. Dead bodies of Germans in Leipzig who committed suicide by cyanide poisoning before being captured, including Deputy Mayor and Municipal Treasurer Dr. jur. Ernst Kurt Lisso, at his desk, his wife Renate Stephanie, in chair, and their daughter Regina Lisso, all in the Leipzig New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus Neues Rathaus Martin-Luther-Ring 4, 04109 Leipzig, Germany). Body of Volksarmee General, who also died by suicide.
U.S. Air Force runway strips and airfields at islands of Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II. A new runway strip at Carney airfield being constructed for U.S. Air Force fighter aircrafts nearby the sea shore of the island. Landing strip between dense forests with coastal trees. equipment and trees cut down for the runway. Another landing strip with few planes parked and houses near side the strip.
U.S. Air Force runway strips and air fields at islands of Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II. A new runway strip at Henderson airfield being constructed for U.S. Air Force fighter aircrafts nearby the sea shore of the island. An operator operates an earthmover and cleans the area for landing strip. U.S. airmen near earthmover watch the process.
Israeli Defense Forces soldiers (IDF) during battle in Palestine during the 1948-1949 Arab-Israeli War. Soldiers fire a mortar round from among wild bushes. They setup a wireless radio set. A soldier talks on radio. Soldiers and commanders observe the surrounding area near the sea shore, with binoculars. A news correspondent with the soldiers. Soldiers with their rifles, light cigarettes.
Berlin during Berlin Airlift operations. Streetcars in Berlin enter tunnel. Pedestrians walk on streets. Roads of Berlin darkened during night hours due to power cuts. A Berlin Airlift "Raisin Bomber" airplane flying low over the city at dusk. Headlamps of vehicles on streets during night. People going to work walk up the stairs of a subway in morning hours. Counter girl sells bread and other bakery goods to customers in a bakery shop. Canned goods emptied from a can and weighed in a shop. Citizens gathered around a news stand. A busy market of Berlin. The partially bomb damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, with a plan flying in the background.
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