Normal life of civilians resume after German surrender in some parts of France during World War II. Aerial view of flak in sky. Close-up view of two U.S. Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft in flight. (Narrator incorrectly states they are British Lancaster bomber aircraft.) View from bomb bay doors of bombs away shot as the B-25 bomber aircraft drop bombs on U-boat pens at Brest. Explosions and smoke rise. The aircraft drop bombs over ground installation over enemy area. Canadian soldier scenes: Troops advance through a burning coastal town in France. Buildings collapsing and gunfire in streets. Smoke rising. Ruins of destroyed French town are seen. Allied Army tanks advance and fire artillery. German prisoners of war from Wehrmacht 7th and 15th armies being marched under watch by Canadian forces. Among the German prisoners is a 13 year old Russian boy who was forced to work by the Nazis. German prisoners in a soup line and seen drinking from mugs. Some appear to be very young boy soldiers. U.S. Army soldiers in Le Mans: American soldiers are welcomed by civilians of France. Happy French civilians waving to U.S. forces including a happy young woman who runs forward and pats a U.S. Army tank with her hand. Men and women collaborationists who assisted the Germans are rounded up by French and marched away. U.S. Army soldiers seated at stools in a French bar drink as the bar maid pours more into their glasses. French civilians line up at shops and groceries to buy food and goods in Le Mans. Pictures of General De Gaulle for sale. American women in U.S. Army uniforms (possibly nurses or Womens Army Corps WAC members) look in shop windows at French fashions. Voting cards: U.S. Army troops read pamphlets that read "requirement of soldiers to vote" and "Soldiers Voting". The U.S. Army GI's receive and mail postcards to their homes requesting absentee voting ballots for the upcoming November 1944 election. The soldiers line up to secure their application cards for absentee ballots.
Lew Worsham wins the United States Open Championship in a playoff, St Louis, Missouri. Lewis Elmer "Lew" Worsham, Jr. and Sam Snead, American golf players play golf on golf course. Spectators watch the game and applaud. Lew Worsham wins from 2 and 1/2 foot putt on the 18th green. Lew Worsham receives trophy.
Middleground wins Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park (2150 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont, NY 11003, United States) in Elmont, New York. Thoroughbred racing horses arrive for Derby race. The race starts. Jockeys ride horses. Horses run on racing course. Spectators watch the race through binoculars. Middleground, American thoroughbred racehorse wins Belmont Stakes from Hill Prince.
Scenes of Cuban Air Force Base and headquarters, at Campo Columbia near Havana, Cuba, and aircraft acquired from the United States Air Force. Film opens with U.S. Air Force sergeant photographer holding a slate marked roll #1, LETO. He is dressed in starched khaki uniform. Other U.S. Airmen stand behind him. Scene shifts to a North American T-6 trainer airplane, Number 119, with skin removed from forward fuselage. A maintenance stand and tools are positioned in front of the aircraft. Hangar number 3 sits behind the T-6. The camera pans right showing two bubble-top P-47Ds parked on the ramp. The first displays number 458 (One of twenty-nine P-47s purchased from the USAF in the period, May, 1952 through June 1953). Work is being performed on the engine of the other. Camera panning right shows another T-6. Also seen is a Lockheed C-56 Lodestar (Lockheed Model 18) that was purchased in 1950 and numbered CU-EDU 2. It is parked in front of a low building with parapets and a flag flying atop it. A large multistory Headquarters building, topped with a control tower is seen in background. Closeup of another P-47 parked on edge of ramp, with its tail in the grass. Camera is moved back showing P-47s and T-6s on ramp in front of the headquarters building. Next, several U.S. Airmen are seen walking across the ramp towards the operations office on ground floor of the Headquarters building. More views of P-47s and T-6s plus a Consolidated PBY 0A-10 Catalina amphibious aircraft parked on the airfield. Several C-47 (DC-3) transport aircraft are seen at the end of the film.
Demonstrations at United States Embassy (24 Grosvenor Square, London W1A 1AE, United Kingdom) in Mayfair, London, England, protesting American involvement in the Vietnam War. The police are moving in on the crowd. Bare tree in the foreground, the crowd of anti-war and peace activist demonstrators in Grosvenor Square. Police carry off demonstrators to the buses to be taken away. Large banners are being carried by the demonstrators in Grosvenor Square. A bus pulling out with demonstrators to the Police Station. The police and photographers, police have the demonstrators in tow. The buses and police wagons. The police pushing in on the crowded demonstrators along with the Mounted Police. A large mob jammed in the square. Police are lining the sidewalk. A demonstrator being carried off by the police. Police along the sidewalk with officials. Street is littered with newspapers after the mob dispersed. Police are seen walking through the park. Police running with a stretcher. Police carry a man on the stretcher toward the ambulance at the curb. Man being carried around to the back of the ambulance, being put into ambulance and taken to the hospital.
African American women honors Ralph Johnson Bunche in Washington D.C., United States. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, seated to attend the program as a principal speaker. National Council of African American women honors Doctor Bunche for his services as mediator in Palestine. National Council members and audience applaud. African American women greets President Truman.
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