Waves crashing on a rocky shore. View of Plymouth Rock, with "1620" engraved on it. Coastline with hills and sea. A forest and primitive house of sticks. A church with watch tower. Reenactment of early immigrants felling trees and busy in a 17th Century settlement in Massachusetts. View upward of tall tree. Column on a building in Virginia; portico and clock on a building in Rhode Island;and a church in Carolina.The minuteman statue in Battle Green, Lexington,Massachusetts. Image of colonist James Otis. Statue of Thomas Jefferson. Image of Thomas Paine. Statue of Patrick Henry. Reenactment of British Red Coats charging up a hill during the American revolution. John Trumbull's painting, the "Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776" in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington,DC. A copy of the document. Reenactment of General Washington's troops and snowy encampment at Valley Forge, in 1777. The colonial troops marching in the snow.Painting of George Washington praying in a glen. Painting by John Trumbull of Lord Cornwallis surrendering to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, October 17, 1781. The Constitution of the United States in the National Archives, Washington, DC. Liberty bell swinging. Early American flag with 13 stars and 13 stripes. Animated map showing the original 13 States. Reenactment of early settlers, in wagon trains, pushing Westward from the original colonies. New States being added to the animated map, until all 48 continental American States are filled in. An American flag displaying 48 States.
Scenes of American life, with narrator describing values of American people. American people gather outside a church. Signs outside many different places of worship in the United States. Americans voting in an election; patronizing a food market and a drug store; bathtub gin being made during prohibition; countless of bottles of liquor; Congress repealing prohibition; stock market ticker tape machine falling to floor; Derrick moving bucket of concrete for construction; outlines of future highways; modern apartment buildings; people emerging from subway station; pedestrians filling city streets; Americans worshiping inside various churches; An American town; Cars on a crowded road; a crowded beach. Sequence closes with, newer, brief images of fallen soldiers in Pacific theater of World War II.
U.S. tanks and soldiers in Livorno, Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The soldiers and the tanks advance. The soldiers walk past a sign which reads 'PISA'. The soldiers and the tanks move along a street. Italian civilians cheer as the troops advance. Soviet partisans carry an American flag and march along the street. A unit of Japanese-American U.S. Army soldiers from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team rest and lean against a wall. Wrecked buildings in the city. Close-up views of the faces of three Japanese-American U.S. Army soldiers of the 442nd regiment as they look at a bulletin board with warning notices written in German and Italian, and then walk away. A Japanese-American soldier looks at a road sign on which an arrow points to Rome and Pisa and has an extra sign added for Los Angeles. He smiles and laughs at the sign.
Ruins in the city of Livorno, Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II. Aerial views of damaged harbor of Livorno after Allied bombings. Ruins in Livorno. A view of sunken ships. A damaged pier. Soldiers walk over to a parapet. Ruins in the city. Three soldiers walking along a road carry a full size mannequin dummy of a person.
African American Fighter Group of USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) in Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II. African American pilots of 332nd Fighter Group (Tuskegee Airmen) being briefed at a map by a USAAF officer in the background. Pilots listen to the officer. USAAF General Benjamin Davis with a pointer at the map. Crewmen attach a wing tank to a USAAF P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft parked on an airfield. The crewmen check the aircraft and load a wing gun. The pilots come out of the briefing room. They sit under the wing of the P-51. P-51s lined up with propellers turning. A P-51 taxis. P-51s take off.
U.S. Piper Cub Liaison aircraft in Italy during World War II. Piper Cubs land on a dock. LST ( Landing Ship Tank ) boats and supplies on the dock. Piper Cubs lined up at the dock. A Piper Cub being hoisted by a crane. Another being hoisted on the airstrip of an LST. The aircraft taxi and take off from the airstrip of the LST. The aircraft in flight. Transport ships in water.
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