Mile Run at Compton, California. Audience watching the competition. Six runners stand on start line, including Jim Beatty, Dyrol Burleson, Jim Grelle, Cary Weisiger, and Bob Seaman. Starting gun is fired. Morgan Growth sets the pace. The runners take off running. New Zealand's Peter Snell wins the race. People clap for him. Snell stands and poses on tracks. Pole vaulter and world record holder Brian Sternberg breaks his old record in pole vaulting.
New Zealand Minister Walter Nash disembarks from an aircraft. He is greeted by the United States officials and other British envoys at the airport in Washington DC. The officials shake hands.
Allied troops participate in a victory parade in Rangoon, Burma towards the end of World War II. The troops of the United States, British forces of Australia, New Zealand and China are gathered on a grassy field. They stand in formation and parade on the field. An artillery gun is fired in honor. Dignitaries review the parade.
Mop up operation by British Allied forces in Florence, Italy, during World War 2. South African and New Zealand troops advance on tanks. Soldier looks through binoculars. Views of city of Florence including Florence Cathedral (Duomo). View of Ponte Vecchio bridge in the city, the only one spared by the German forces who destroyed all other bridges over the Arno River at Florence. Soldier fires from the hidden area. Explosions in the city. Soldiers patrol on streets of Florence. Civilians on streets, including some partisan civilian soldiers aiding in the elimination of German sniper positions.
Arrival of an Allied troop transport ship at a port in France during World War I. British troops disembark along with carriage supplies and mobilize on docks with horses and troops. Troops from New Zealand board trains headed for the war front.
Opening few seconds show American General John J. Pershing viewing a grave marker at a fresh cemetery in France during World War I. Next scene shows Australian troops dig trenches in France during World War 1. Australian troops at a destroyed railroad yard. Group of French men and women and children civilians pose for the camera,while British troops stand in background. Close up of an old French woman. The elderly French woman is talking and appears to be expressing thanks to the Allied troops. Troops on foot pass by a wrecked French town with buildings reduced to piles of rubble from shelling. British troops and supplies on horse carts pass by the streets of the demolished town. British lancer cavalry regiment passes by on horseback, with lances raised. New Zealand soldiers march on railroad tracks to board a train.
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