New York Mayor visits coast Fair in San Francisco, California. Fiorella LaGuardia, attends the United States conference of Mayors at the Golden Gate Exposition grounds. He holds a rifle which he points at the camera, while seated on a horse carriage. He is taken for a ride in a horse-driven covered stagecoach by Mayor Rossi of San Francisco.
An incident at the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) in Korea. KATUSA (Korean Augmented To United States Army) soldier rests during patrol. Soldiers walk in bushes along creek bed. Soldiers walk along fence and cross narrow stream. They walk in swampy area. 7th Infantry Division soldier speaks over phone.
Missions by 463rd Air Division in support of humanitarian and combat operations in South East Asia. C-130 Hercules aircraft takes off from Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam. United States soldiers with rifles in their hands relax near the airstrip. Soldiers drive army jeeps on dirt road. C-130 aircraft lands and taxis with soldiers in the foreground. (Vietnam War period).
MAAG (Military Assistance and Advisory Group) Mission in Saigon, Vietnam. Vietnamese Honor Guards stand with rifles in their hands. Colonel Nuygen Khuong, Chief Signal Officer of Vietnam; Minister of Defense and Assistance Secretary of State, Mr Dung present during the ceremony. Colonel Nuygen reviews Honor Guard. Vietnamese flag hoisted on pole. Colonel Nuygen speaks over microphone.
MAAG (Military Assistance and Advisory Group) Mission in Saigon, Vietnam. Colonel Nuygen Khuong, Chief Signal Officer of Vietnam gives a speech reading from a paper in his hand. Vietnamese soldiers watch the ceremony. Dignitaries and United States officers in review stand. Lieutenant Colonel T Ross, Chief Signal Officer and two Signal Advisory Officers.
Film opens showing Adolf Hitler ascending stairs to the Bergfhof, accompanied by Marshal Hermann Goering, and followed by other high ranking Nazi officers. Inside, General staff officers begin briefing Hitler about plans for German expansion Eastward. Finger points to Austria on map. Next, on March 12, 1938, Border Guards are seen dismantling barriers at the border as German troops march into Austria. German aircraft fly overhead. Hitler stands in his open touring car as it drives into Vienna, where local people line the sidewalk, and welcome him with the Nazi salute. Maps depict the fall of Austria and illustrate the anticipated conquest of Czechoslovakia. Brief overlay image of Bismark as narrator quotes him about Bohemia being key to control of Europe. German troops advancing up steep mountainous terrain. German soldiers on horseback and wagons passing road sign pointing to cities of Karlovy Vary and Cheb, in the west Bohemia region of Czechoslovakia. Czech troops marching in formation with shouldered arms. View of Czech Avia B-534 warplanes at an airfield. Interior of a Czech Skoda works munitions factory. President of Czechoslovakia, Edvard Beneš, signing papers at his desk. French lancers marching in formation, on parade. (Narrator comments on French military alliances with Czechoslovakia and Great Britain.) View of warships in British fleet. Hitler outdoors, surrounded by German military officers, looking over large maps. Animated map highlights the "Sudetenlands" bordering Germany, including districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and parts of Silesia inside Czechoslovakia, where use of German language was common. Street scene from that area showing some youths in uniforms, marching. Hitler giving speech about bringing the German people together again. The uniformed youth marching at a camp. Sign erected on stone wall at the camp reads: "Die Faune ist mehr als der..."(the flag is more than ...) Youth in Naval garb march on a street with a Nazi flags. Spectators give Nazi salutes. Young men in Khaki uniforms march with Nazi symbols. Scenes shift to similar parades in Norway, Sweden,China,and the United States. Back in Czechoslovakia, Hitler reaches down from his podium to shake hands with parading youth. Images of Admiral Chester Nimitz, Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, Senator Robert Wagner, Wendell Wilkie, Henry J. Kaiser, and American military members, superimposed on American flags. Sudentenland Nazi supporters marching. Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein, Sudeten German politician, with a Nazi officer. More views of Sudeten Nazi supporters. Nazis in an office showing blackjacks. Hospitalized Czechs who suffered at hands of Nazi supporters in street fights. Hitler speaking before the Bundestag. Closeup of Joseph Goebbels.Foreign minister Maxine Lichtenhof speaking to League of Nations meeting announcing Russia's readiness to back action against Germany. Czech borders being closed. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain arriving by plane in Munich. Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Hermann Goering with Chamberlain, at the meeting to sign the Munich Agreement. View of protests by people in the streets of Czechoslovakia. French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier and Chamberlain, both being praised by countrymen upon their respective returns from Munich. (Chamberlain seen arriving just before giving famous "peace for our time" speech.)
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