A newsreel titled 'US-Russia back UN plan for Holy Land' shows European Jewish refugees on board a former American vessel as they reach Haifa Palestine after traveling from a Black Sea port. Writing on ship says "Haganah Ship - Jewish State". Passengers hold up a dead infant for those on the docks to see, a victim of the overcrowded ship conditions. British forces patrol the docks before passenger disembark. Fatigued refugees, including families with small children, disembark from the ship as the injured and sick are carried away on stretchers. Passengers are sprayed with delousing agent powder to control spread of disease. Other passengers seen embarking a ship from dock for transport to Cypress detention camps, rather than facing deportation to Europe. Scene change to United Nations meeting at Lake Success New York. United States delegate, Herschel Johnson, addresses a meeting of General Assembly's Special Committee on Palestine, expressing support for proposed partition of Palestine.
United States CG-4A, a cargo military glider being assembled by repair squadron of 81st Air Depot group in Brisbane, Australia. Men assemble CG-4A glider. Old type tie rods are being removed. Clevis pin from old type tie rods is being removed. Comparison of new tie rod clevis pins with old ones.
United States CG-4A,a cargo military glider being assembled by repair squadron of 81st Air Depot group in Brisbane, Australia. Men install two new tie rod cables on tail of the CG-4A glider. They tighten the horizontal tension bar. Completely assembled aircraft is seen. Brackets under the tail of an assembled glider are seen. Brackets are also seen on fuselage under the tail.
Viking crew members stand and talk to each other at a base in Soc Trang, Vietnam as a Viking sign board is seen. They walk and enter into a building to the left. UH-1B helicopters in revetment area. A UH-1B is seen in flight over the runway. Another UH-1B ready for flight as 'color me' and 'bad news' are written on it. Flight crew makes pre-flight checks. Rocket tubes loaded with rockets are seen. Crew members inside the helicopter wearing helmet and a lip mike are seen. Helicopter takes off.
General Dwight D Eisenhower, General Spaatz and Air Marshal Mallory discuss the plan for invading Normandy, France during World War II. Supplies are massed in England for the invasion. United States bombers fly and bombard coastal defenses in France. Allied troops land and bring the supplies ashore. German prisoners lined up. General Montgomery visits Normandy. People in England receive news about the invasion through newspapers.
American military trucks and tanks traverse New Road through village of Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. An African American soldier drives one of the trucks. An overhead crane pulls a 2-1/2 ton cargo truck,two wheeled trailer aboard a ship. Trucks and two M1 tanks drive through, turning in front of the Abbey Printing Works. Several townsfolk stand in front of V.F. Pike & Co.Ltd. shop and watch tanks driving past. U.S. soldiers ride in an open stake trucks pulling field artillery. View from vehicle moving along village street past army trucks and entering a courtyard, between stone pillars. A U.S. Military policeman directing truck traffic in center of town. View from truck driving over rails and into port where large ship is being loaded by cranes.
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