A newsreel titled 'Martial law lifted in Palestine' shows, armed crewmen inspect a wrecked train after a bomb blast and guards patrol the area in Jerusalem, Palestine. Jewish agency executives including American representatives gather at a hospital to meet with President David Ben-Gurion and discuss the creation of a Jewish state. American representatives include Ms. Rose Halprin and Dr. Abba Silver. Martial law being lifted as people move out on streets and British soldiers remove barbed wire that had been dividing Jerusalem. Crowd of men, women, and children greet and mingle after the wire is removed.
British and troop patrols converge on the road to Rome, in the beginning of this film. Soldiers of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division and 5th Canadian Armored Division are seen next, mopping up after breaching the Hitler Line, on 24 May 1944. They are seen leaving the area to advance further. Brief view of soldiers tending to a tank and marching past an abandoned anti-aircraft gun. Captured German prisoners march rearward along a road as a camouflaged (with foliage) Canadian M4 Sherman tank advances along a road. It carries many infantrymen riding along atop it. (Narrator states they are en route to Pontecarvo.) Allied artillery pounds the ruined streets of the city. Canadian troops are seen next,entering the destroyed town of Aquino. British Hawker fighter planes flying over water in trail formation, behind the camera plane. Allied patrol from the Anzio front engages a German strong point, using bazookas and small arms. Glimpse of burning German armored vehicle. Polish troops are seen entering the village of Piedimonte. They pull a German from his hideout in a trench. German prisoners marching under guard. Stretcher bearers carry wounded to an open field where they are being tended. Polish forces hold a ceremonial parade where British General Sir Harold Alexander decorates a Polish soldier. Brief closeup of General Alexander. June 4, 1944, American troops enter Rome. German Sturmpanzer (panzer) IV "Grizzly Bear" tank abandoned on the street. U.S. troops walking about in the city and in area of Piazza Venezia. Altar of the Fatherland in background. Local inhabitants cheering the Americans. Italians mob the local fascist controlled radio studio and force occupants to leave the building, abusing some as they depart. Views of happy crowds. Some showing newspapers announcing the arrival of the Allies.
Newsreel titled 'President Roosevelt approves liquor code as production booms' shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt conferring with Secretary of State Henry A. Wallace before approving liquor code in Warm Springs,Georgia near end of Prohibition. This occurred in advance of the formal ratification of the 21st amendment on December 5, 1933, repealing the 18th Amendment (Prohibition). Approval leads to a boom in the production of liquor. Scenes in a distillery and assembly line operation for Old Colony Dry Gin. Machines filling bottles with liquor. Women on assembly line packaging gin bottles. Lab technician beside laboratory instruments in distillery examines and tastes liquor and smiles. Large wooden barrels or casks being filled with beer or liquor, and then barrels rolled by men at production plant toward shipping areas.
An American soldier named Gene Kneebone from Grass Valley City, California being interviewed in Manila, Philippines. Kneebone recounts his experience as prisoner by Japanese forces in World War II during the interview. He states how he was beaten up at military police headquarters after two of his friends escaped from the Japanese prison camp.
Mrs. Gray along with her son Billy during an interview states how her husband was beaten to death by Japanese during World War II in Manila,Philippines.
An American couple, Mr and Mrs Donald Zimmerman, from Yorba Linda California, with orphans of World War II, Dennis and Garnet Morris (or Mars), who have been adopted by them in Manila,Philippines after their father was imprisoned by the Japanese and their mother died in a prison camp. The couple states that they plan to take the children to their grandparents in Seattle Washington.
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