Activities abroad United States Ship Wasp in the Pacific Ocean, during World War 2. Commander Joseph C. Clifton, Executive Officer of the USS Wasp, reads citation accompanying medal to be awarded to Lieutenant Commander, Cleo J. Dobson, Commanding Officer of Squadron VF-86. Captain of the Wasp, Captain W.G. Switcher, pins the medal on Dobson. (Note: Downing of the last Japanese plane of the war, has been attributed, by some sources, to Dobson.)
Fire fighting aboard the USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Western Pacific Ocean off the coast of Formosa (Taiwan). Sailors direct fire hoses on a burning TBF Avenger and hole in the flight deck. The TBF Avenger had returned from a sortie, landed on the deck, taxied near the island and then exploded. 50 sailors were killed and 75 injured. Corpsmen carry wounded man on stretcher across flight deck. (World War II period).
Airmen prepare for the take off off an American biplane in the United States during World War I. An airman sits near the biplane. Tent hangar opens. The airman pushes the biplane. Planes, airmen and tents seen in background. The airman stands on a ridge.
Pilots on assignments in the United States during World War I. Pilots gets assignment in an outdoor shack. They walk towards the biplanes and check them. Two pilots climb into the cockpit of the planes. The planes start and take off. Pilots in the cockpits of airborne biplanes. Bombs dropped from the plane. Airmen lined up.
American soldiers and Women Army Corps (WACs) dance in a hall in the United States during World War II. WACs and soldiers dance. Others sit and talk. Few have drinks. A training for the soldiers. A screen in the background.
Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC. Adolf Hitler during a speech in Germany. In the speech Hitler proclaims his right to rid the world of inferior races. He addresses a large crowd of officers. The Nazi sense of justice as exemplified in aggressive wars and atrocities is compared with that of the war crime tribunals at Nuremberg. Scenes of victims of the German atrocities, including men, women, and children, and including executed American soldiers in uniform, shot in the back. Scenes from German concentration camps of atrocity victims. Dead bodies lie all over. Women weep seeing the dead bodies. Dead bodies loaded on a horse cart led by a man wearing a gas mask. A Nazi book burning rally during the night time, before the war. People hold flags. Concentration camp victims on litters being transported for medical care away from liberated concentration camps. Torture devices used at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Dead bodies covered with snow after exposure deaths.German Doctor Adolf Wahlmann, head physician at the Hadamar Euthanasia Centre, shows medicine bottles containing drugs used to kill the patients. View of a gas chamber. Foreign Ministries of three major powers sign the Moscow Declaration in London. German Nazi, Doctor Hans Frank speaking at a podium to a group of gathered German Nazi officials during World War 2. American soldiers on foot passing through rubble of a city in Europe during World War 2. View of a military tribunal hall as proceedings are about to begin. Civilian German men viewing a pile of bodies in a room in a German concentration camp, as they are shown the camp by American forces.
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