King Faisal II of Iraq aboard USS Oriskany in the United States. Sailors on the deck of aircraft carrier USS Oriskany. The King and his party members aboard the ship. The royal party aboard Oriskany. An admiral points out a U.S. Navy carrier based fighter aircraft F6F Hellcat to the King. The King with his party on the deck. The admiral escorts the party members.
A film titled 'Aqua Cheetah' shows water and land test of an Aqua Cheetah sea jeep at the Holabird Quartermaster Motor Base in Maryland, United States. A man drives a sea jeep in water. The man drives the sea jeep on a road. He operates the controls of the jeep. The man gets off from the jeep and opens the engine at the back of the jeep. A propeller on the jeep. The Aqua Cheetah moves on a dirt road. The man drives the sea jeep in the water and crosses a river easily. A building in the foreground. The jeep in water. The jeep comes back on land and moves on the road. A car parked in the foreground.
German civilians seen walking, from time to time, in Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin, during summer of 1945, after end of World War 2, in Europe. Behind them is the bombed out remains of the Französischer Dom (French Cathedral). The walls have collapsed in places and Statuary in niches have been severely damaged, including one seen headless. Camera pans up the side of the cathedral, to the base of the dome, and then to an iron fence with a makeshift sign (in beautiful script) reading "Französischer Dom." A man walks past the camera, wearing a back pack. Camera shows fallen brick and other rubble at steps, below the iron fence and sign. Glimpse of American military cameraman holding makeshift slate, with Camera equipment behind him.
In Berlin, at the end of World War 2, in Europe, a large group of ordinary people gather at a hill of debris where a building once stood. Men and Women use shovels to dig dirt from sidewalk and place it in buckets, that others pass up the hill, in a bucket brigade. Closeup of people filling the buckets at the base of the pile of debris. The bucket brigade consists mostly of women. They transfer the filled buckets up the hill and empty ones down via a separate group of volunteers. The buckets are emptied at the top of the heap. Some women transfer large fragments of concrete to one another. The entire project seems intended to clear more space in the sidewalks and streets. View from a high point reveals skeletons of tall buildings and other groups doing similar work to clear rubble from the city walks and roads.
At the end of World War 2, in Europe, citizens of Berlin (mostly women) cooperate in a bucket brigade to clear rubble from their walks and streets. Lacking any machinery, they use shovels to fill buckets and pass them up the hill of debris at the base of bombed out buildings. A train passes below damaged roadway where camera is located. Camera pans to the cleanup site, where dozens of people are occupied. Closup of a man using a mason's hammer to break concrete slabs so they can be moved by hand. Women inside the walls of a demolished building, where they empty the buckets and throw the concrete slabs.
British 8th Army tanks roll past wreckage of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Corps in Libya during World War II . Wrecked German tanks, German airplanes and guns litter the desert. British troops stand around a field gun. A wrecked truck in the background. A wrecked Nazi seaplane. British 8th Army troops on tanks roll past the wreckage. A burning German truck. The British troops in tanks and jeeps cross a flooded road. Supply bases are established on the route. Harbor at at Marsa Matruh Egypt littered with wrecked supply ships and German seaplanes. Nazi prisoners in trucks along a road towards a prison camp. Italian prisoners driving themselves to prison camps even though not under guard. Nazi prisoners in line entering a prisoner of war camp. A high ranked Nazi officer is searched. Some Nazi prisoners seated and a few stand.
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