From a film entitled "The City", about need and importance of town planning. A boy with a dog outside a farm house in New England, United States. Two men in a blacksmith shop. The blacksmith hammers a rounded piece of metal which appears to be for a wheel or to bind a barrel. Scene shifts to an industrial factory and then current day. Molten metal being poured in a plant. Smoke rises from stacks causing pollution. Views of a town in the shadow of a giant industrial factory with pollution and smoke pouring from the factory and laden over the town.
The state of Israel is formed. Refugee settlement tents in an area and people behind a barbed wire fence (possibly Jewish refugee camp in Cyprus where immigrants to Israel awaited political negotiations). A ship in a harbor. Jews board the ship. The Israeli flag hoisted aboard the ship. People get onto the ship. A man and a woman aboard the ship while it is underway towards Israel. Men load cargo onto a ship. Jews aboard a ship as they wave. Two men shake hands. Traffic on a street in a city in Israel. Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion arrives and enters a building. A flag of Israel on the top of a building. An Egyptian aircraft in flight over Tel Aviv. A damaged building after an air raid. Dead bodies of Israeli people in streets after a bombing. Soldiers find a cache of ammunition and hand grenades in crates. Also found is a Nazi German book with a swastika symbol. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers on the observation deck of a watch tower of what appears to be a liberated prison or detention area. Israeli soldiers in formation on a street.
The role of U.S. 86th Fighter Bomber Group during Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy in World War II. Aerial views of a town. Billows of smoke rise up after bombing by the 86th Fighter Bomber Group. Aerial views of a city. Bombs hit residential areas and highways and smoke rises. An aircraft strafes a highway and an explosion occurs.
Canadian troops in Sicily, Italy during World War 2. Canadian soldiers on foot and tank units (with M4A4s) advance. A soldier loaded onto a tank. Another soldier drinks water offered by locals. Mt. Etna's dead craters and lava streams. Three Canadian soldiers climb a mountain. Mountain top city of Taormina. An ambulance moves down a road. A view of hills.
Damage caused by Allied bombings in Palermo, Sicily, Italy during World War II. Wrecked ships and vessels in a harbor. A sentry stands on guard in the foreground. Damaged buildings near a water front. Men walk past them. A large undamaged dry dock and the city of Palermo in the background.
A film titled 'This is Guadalcanal' about Allied campaign against the Japanese in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. A map of Guadalcanal. An officer speaks about the role of U.S. Marines during the battle. He also speaks about the role of civilians that helped the Marines in winning the battle in Guadalcanal. The Marines embark onto a ship and it pulls away from a harbor in San Francisco. View of buildings of skyline of city of San Francisco as seen from moving ship. The Golden Gate Bridge in the background. A U.S. invasion fleet underway in the Pacific Ocean. Officers confer aboard a ship. A signal man at a blinker light. He exchanges a signal with another ship. Naval guns bombard the coast of Guadalcanal and smoke rises from the coast. The Marines come down a landing net and board landing crafts. The landing crafts head towards a beach. Waves break at a shore. The Marines land at a beach. Faces of Marines as the disembark from landing craft. Supplies being unloaded from the landing crafts. Supply crates and gasoline barrels stacked up on the beach. Barbed wire fences on the beach. The Marine in gun emplacements and fox holes.
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