Units of the Italian fleet in Taranto harbor, Italy after the Italians surrender to the Allies during World War II. Italian cruisers and other ships in the harbor area. The bow of a ship underway. Men on the deck of the ship. The bridge of a ship underway.
U.S. Army Air Corps flying cadets and instructors proceeding to a line of Stearman (Boeing) Model 75 airplanes at a training base in the U.S. A change of scene shows U.S. Army Air Corps pilots of the 8th Pursuit Group at Langley Field, Virginia, proceeding to a line of Curtiss P-36 Hawk airplanes. They start engines and begin to taxi out on the ramp. Unit insignia of the 33rd, 35th and 36th Pursuit Squadrons,respectively, are painted on the fuselages of the aircraft. They perform a mass takeoff and later fly over the field in formation.
Amphibious invasion of Incheon, Korea by U.S. 1st Marine Division during the Korean War. A radar on the bridge of a U.S. ship. U.S. destroyer USS DeHaven (DD-727), Ships head for the beach of Incheon. The importance of securing a beachhead is explained. U.S. battleships fire at coastal targets. Smoke billows up from explosions. Landing crafts loaded with U.S. Mariens head for the beach. Amphibious vehicles loaded with troops are driven on the beach. The marines advance inland. Men of the North Korean People's Army surrender before U.S. Marines. U.S. Navy USS Mahoning County (Landing Ship, Tank-914) embarks units and equipment of 1st Marine Division on beaches.
The Potsdam Conference in Germany towards the end of World War II. U.S. President Harry Truman joins Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower in a review of American troops in Frankfurt am Main city along the Main River in Germany. Exterior of the Cecilienhof in Potsdam. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Clement Attlee and his Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin return to the Potsdam Conference. Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Attlee, Truman and others seated around a round table.
German Navy officers and sailors (including Walter Gerhold, who won the Knight's Cross for his one man mini-submarine [Neger] attack on the Polish Cruiser Dragon in July 1944) arrive by train and are greeted by affiliated Hitler youth in Berlin, during World War 2. Accompanied by a contingent of Navy-related Hitler youth boys, they board a bus and are waved at by a group of Hitler youth girls, as they depart. View inside the bus of a young Kriegsmarine (Navy) officer sitting with admiring Hitler youth in Navy-style uniforms. Next they are seen meeting the National German Youth Leader (Reichsjugendleiter) Artur Axmann, in uniform. One of the boys is then fitted out in flotation gear,helmet, and breathing apparatus of a Marder human torpedo operator. The boys gather around a Marder, one-man submarine. Closeup of some boys shows "11/184 Kiel,"on their hats, indicating the Youth unit to which they belong. The boy dressed in operators gear, now sits in the cockpit of the Marder submarine. A sailor shows him how to aim it. Those gathered around, tap on the plexiglass cockpit of the submarine. An experienced sailor tells the boys about using such a weapon against English ships and amuses them with personal stories.
Brief view of a memorial wreath from Adolf Hitler inscribed to "My fallen (dead) Comrades." German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, bare headed, carrying a top hat, walking with group of officials after wreath laying at the ceremony. President Paul von Hindenburg, at the same event, accompanied by soldiers, walks along a street, lined with troops and spectators. He holds his Field Marshal's baton, and salutes with it. Several caskets sit on floor of church, surrounded by flags of many military units and organizations. Wreaths on the caskets.
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