Film from 1965 shows scenes that span from early 1940s through mid 1960s. Film opens showing armed conflict in Laos and South America. Soldiers firing rifles in jungle areas. Armed men running across a field and in a town in Cyprus. Heavy armor engaged in conflict and buildings burning in undisclosed location. Riots in Congo with a crowd of men beating another man. Armed Republic of South Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) moving through jungle in Vietnam War. A Viet Cong fighter shot as ARVN troops attack a hut. People fleeing in streets of Cuba as government soldiers engage armed revolutionaries under Castro. A civilian woman suffering a seizure as Red Cross workers attempt to carry her. Burned body of dead tank crew soldier atop a tank. Medical corps persons moving wounded on a stretcher. Various views of ARVN with captured Viet Cong in Vietnam. Narrator discussion about Geneva Conventions and Counterinsurgency. View of the Palace of Nations building in Geneva Switzerland. Scene shifts to inside, in 1949, where delegates of 59 nations are gathered to develop new rules expanding the original 1929 Geneva Conventions, in order to better protect prisoners of war, wounded prisoners, noncombatants and others caught up such internal conflicts. View from ground of German paratroopers during World War 2, jumping from Junkers Ju-52 trimotor transport planes. Closeup of German soldiers leaping from a plane and descending in parachutes. Japanese soldiers surrendering to Americans on a Pacific Island in World War 2. Several scenes of massacre victims lying on the ground, victims of Nazi German brutality in Europe during World War II. Survivors of a Nazi concentration camp near the time of its liberation in 1945. A U.S. Army medical corpsmen help one to a stretcher. Executed prisoners of war. Courtroom of the Nuremberg trials. Seen in the front row of Nazi leaders are: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, and Julius Streicher. Seated behind them are: Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, and Konstantin von Neurath. Scene shifts to the postwar trial of Japanese Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma, in the Philippines. Prisoners with hands bound, in an unidentified Asian conflict, being herded into an open truck. Views of the document constituting the 3rd Geneva Convention of 1949, addressing treatment of prisoners and of parts directed to "conflicts not of an international character." Views of a traumatized civilian driver wounded and a female passenger killed in in his car (appears to be in Cuba or Latin America). Armed gunmen have the man leave the car. A man lays the body of the woman beside the car. Scene shifts to a group of surrendered Vietcong fighters with their weapons stacked. Wounded combatants being carried on stretchers. American survivors of a Japanese prison camp receiving a good meal after being rescued - this is possibly in the Philippines in 1945. Many of the American prisoners are gaunt and emaciated and malnourished. Narrator recites list of activities prohibited by Geneva conventions, as images show these activities: A ditch filled with victims of massacre. Hostages being taken in an internal conflict in an African country. Prisoners being beaten by non-uniformed civilians in and humiliated in public. A recently liberated prison with a former prisoner in striped uniform beating a man as a group is marched away (likely a World War 2 concentration camp with a liberated prisoner beating a former Nazi guard). Death sentences being rendered without due process. A court in Cuba. A boy pointing at a lineup of prisoners. A prisoner shot.
A convoy of ship underway in the Atlantic Ocean. Fox Movie News cameraman with camera. A convoy of ship. Three stack British Cunard ocean liner in the background. Single stack destroyer underway. Four stack destroyer underway. Two stack destroyer underway. Small American freighter underway. A U.S. flag painted on side of freighter. Ship take a sharp turn towards the port.
Republic of Korea Navy sailors aboard a battleship number 61 in Korea. Various interior views of ship, bridge, engine room, and Korean sailors at work during Korean War era. Scene of radar giving information of another ship approaching. Sailors come out of a compartment and climb stairs to get to battle stations. A sailor looks through a targeting device on one of the ship's guns. Sailors load Korean naval guns. Firing from naval guns. Signal light being flashed. A sailor steers the ship. A gauge shows direction of sail. A sailor changes speed to full. The crankshaft of the ship in operation. Close-up view of steam driven crankshaft up and down motion. Sailor detects problem with a steam fitting and delivers part in need of repair to another sailor. That sailor is suffering sea sickness symptoms. He puts on a welding mask and attempts to weld the needed repair on a valve but collapses as he is seasick. View of ceiling lightbulb and moving ship. The ship at sea in calm seas. Ship doctor washes hands and examines the sailor. Sailor is determined to be unfit for service on ship and assigned a new post upon docking. The sailor walks through a passageway and leans on the rail. The ship at a harbor. Sailors anchor the ship. The sailor says goodbye to his friends aboard ship before leaving. The sailor carries baggage and leaves the ship. Other sailors wave to him from the ship. The reassigned sailor walks on the dock.
New security controls to fight terrorism in Saigon, Vietnam. Special boats patrol in the Mekong river delta. Men in boats. Steel covered boats in river. Houses along the shore line. People walk on street. Military Policemen at a street. Military Policemen check people entering a building. A wire mesh on tree in the foreground. A road with fenced area on one side.
Yachts being given final cleaning and checks before the America's cup race, in Newport, Rhode island. In opening scene, the racing yacht, Intrepid, is seen up on blocks, and surrounded by scaffolding, in a boatyard. "Intrepid New York" is inscribed on her stern. Several men stand nearby. Next, the Australian entry, "Dame Pattie," is also seen out of water, as her crew hoses down and cleans her hull. Change of scene shows others of her crew washing her sails with a hose and long-handles brushes, in a pool, at Vernon Court, which is serving as their headquarters during the event.
A ceremony for New Savings Bond program of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in Richland, Washington. Soldiers march in a parade. People stand on a road side and clap. Miss Richland in a car at the parade. She waves to people and children wave back. Native American Indians dressed in regalia ride in cars during the parade. Officials show a flag that reads 'US Treasury, Richland'. People watch as officials raise the flag. Aircraft fly in formation. The flag on a flagpole. Trees in the background.
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