A motorcade for General Dwight D. Eisenhower in New York City. Citizens of New York welcome the man who headed the armies and helped to win World War 2. General Eisenhower smiles, waves, and accepts the honor. People shower ticker tapes to welcome General Eisenhower. U.S. flags on buildings. Large crowd welcomes Eisenhower at ticker tape parade. He receives city's gold medal and honorary citizenship. He addresses a throng. Cameraman records the event. General Eisenhower in a parade from the battery to City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007). Soldiers hold the U.S. flag. Soldiers and Generals salute. Lieutenant Colonel Franklin T. Matthias salutes.
Royal Mail Ship Queen Mary at sea in New York. The Statue of Liberty. Airship of the U.S. navy in flight. 14,000 veterans on Queen Mary after the end of World War II. The British ocean liner RMS Queen Mary arrives in New York harbor with thousands of U.S. troops from Europe.
Motorists at a gas station as OPA (Office of Price Administration) lifts gas restrictions in United States just after the end of World War II. Sign reads "Gas rationing off, no stamps required." Man scrapes gas ration sticker letter "A" off of car window. A gas station employee fills the tank of motor car. Calco meter is shown registering gas sale. Motor cars enter a Mobil Oil gas station. Motorcars at Mobil Oil gas station. Employee fills the gas tank of a car. Station attendants raise car hood and check fluids.
Tachikawa Airfield in Japan after the end of World War II. Opening scene shows a U.S. Army Air Force flyer's A-3 equipment bag with logo of the 5th Air Force on it. A Japanese ambulance is seen, next, with Japanese attendants. Injured American soldiers are helped aboard the ambulance. One, with his arm heavily bandaged, waits to board. An Army Air Forces C-54 transport aircraft makes a long takeoff roll before climbing out from the airfield. Several views from an empty hangar of a C-54 taxiing past on the airfield ramp. In background C-54 aircraft are seen taxiing in various parts of the airfield. Some jeeps drive and a soldier walks past the hangar as a C-47 starts a takeoff roll in the background. View of hills and clouds.
U.S. Army Air Forces issue flyer's A-3 bag is seen with 5th Air Force patch on it. Armed American troops descending from C-54 transport upon arrival at Tachikawa Airfield, near Tokyo, Japan after World War II. Air Transport Command (ATC) insignia on fuselage of aircraft. Wooden Control tower with sign "Tokyo Base Operation, 3rd Airdrome Squadron". Several red Japanese fire trucks in a row at edge of tarmac, along with two liquid tank trucks and 7 brown Japanese cloth top automobiles marked with crosses on their fenders. A C-47 is parked in background. American soldiers in full combat gear walking across the tarmac. American soldiers, who just arrived in C-54 transport aircraft, line up and collect their baggage from bottom of the aircraft.
Japanese soldiers inspect and move equipment in Japan. View of rifles and combat equipment. Japanese soldiers turn in rifles and combat equipment. Japanese soldiers and Japanese children walk carrying machines guns. Two GIs open boxes containing machine guns, inspect the same and close the boxes. They lift the box up and walk away. Japanese soldiers move equipment. (World War II period).
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