United States troops learn customs and languages from Japanese girls in Tokyo, Japan. Buildings on a street. An American soldier strolls the Ginza shopping district with a Japanese girlfriend. The troops stand on the street. A Japanese woman walks past the troops on the street. American troops walk with two Japanese girls on the grounds of the Tokyo Imperial Palace (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda-ku 100-0001 Tokyo). Two soldiers with the girls pose as a man takes pictures. Soldiers with Japanese girls, wearing Western dresses, walk on a street. Vehicles drive on the street. Soldiers strolling in Hibiya Park (1-6 Hibiyakouen, Chiyoda-ku, Toukyou-To 100-0012). A girl in a garden teaches language to a soldier. A soldier seated on side of a road speaks to Japanese girls in sign language.
Soviet information about coping with incendiary bombs during World War 2. Views of Soviet city under bombing attack. Spotters on roofs. Antiaircraft guns firing and searchlights illuminating attacking German airplane. Incendiary bombs fall in several places. A man picks on up and throws it outside on the grounds where it burns without damaging the building. Others shown coping with incendiary bombs. One person throws it into a tub of water with bad result. Citizens are advised not to use water on incendiary bombs. Men shown using a special fire extinguishers on incendiary bombs.One man throws a bomb into a furnace and closes the door.
Alliance of Progress initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy to establish economic cooperation between North and South America. The exhibition of the program is inaugurated in Mexico City. A sign reads (translated) 'Exploration of Space'. A space craft on display. The visitors look at the spacecraft that is exhibited. A screen showing the launch of a missile of the NASA program. A group of men and women look at the screen. A man demonstrates the working of satellite. A group of boy and girl Mexican children view the display. In the United States, two boys wearing Boy Scout uniforms view a display of a satellite model spinning in space, and three adult stand behind them. The visitors entering the exhibition ground. A poster of Kennedy at the entrance.
German families living in pillboxes on the outskirts of Wittlich, Germany during World War II. A pillbox. Clothes hanged on fences . A flag. A woman working on a table inside the pillbox. A young girl stands holding a utensil. The woman picks up the table on her shoulder and climbs up the steps. She puts the table on the ground. Chairs kept outside the pillbox. A man with his daughter. The man stands with his three children. The pillbox in the background.
The Battle of Okinawa in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A group of U.S. Marines at a command post looks at a chart of a combat area. A Marine looking through a binocular. Another Marine stands holding the binocular and other stand behind him. U.S. Marines in a foxhole. A Marine in a partial foxhole with a mortar. The Marines in a trench look out over an open valley with binoculars. Smoke columns rise in a distance due to mortar fire. Marine communications squad lays telephone wires toward advance position. The Marines laying the wires. A group of Marines seated discuss and one of them puts on a mask. The Marine advance. A Marine carries mortar parts on his shoulders. A USMC (United States Marine Corps) sniper with a telescopic lens on a rifle shoots across the valley. The Mortar Squad firing. Phosphorous smoke shells hit the ground in the open valley and lay a smoke screen. A Marine speaks over a telephone and another smokes a cigar.
A training film shows half-tracks traveling on roads and over rough terrain. It also shows the assignment that half-tracks can perform well, such as guarding bivouac areas and bridges in the United States during World War II. The U.S. soldiers run and get into the half-track stationary on the field. A convoy of half-track rolls down on a dirt road. The convoy moves on a high way. The troops aboard the half truck rolls down the rough terrain. Insignia of the U.S. on the half-tracks. The half-tracks advance on the rough terrain. They move through mud and slush. The half-tracks drive on a road. They cross a bridge. A half-track stops. The troops look at the sky. Other moving in the background. The half-tracks advance. Another half-track stops and soldier fires anti aircraft (AA) gun mounted on half-track in air. The half-track advance. The half-tracks lined up and troops firing AA guns in the sky. The troops fire the guns. Several views explosions on the ground due to firing. An aircraft in flight. A gunners aims at the target. White circle shows the target. The troops fire AA gun mounted on M15 and M16 half-tracks. A view of the soldiers firing gun in the sky.
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