U.S. troops prepare to embark for the United States from France at the conclusion of their service in Europe during World War II, but before the end of the war, so it is regarded as a 30 day furlough. Soldiers stand in line and receive awards and recognitions for their service. The troops go through a chow line and eat food. Soldiers march and smiling U.S. Army soldiers board waiting trucks. The soldiers carry barracks bags as they board troop transport ships, embarking on the voyage back to America. Narrator notes that they will still be needed to help in the fight against the Japanese.
Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini's declaration of war on Britain during World War II. A crowd assembled in Venice, Italy to hear the dictator's declaration of war. Dictator Benito Mussolini speaks from a balcony flanked by banners and large fasces (symbol of Fascism). Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie saluting in Ethiopia before Italian annexation of the country.
The Potsdam Conference in Germany towards the end of World War II. U.S. President Harry Truman joins Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower in a review of American troops in Frankfurt am Main city along the Main River in Germany. Exterior of the Cecilienhof in Potsdam. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Clement Attlee and his Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin return to the Potsdam Conference. Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Attlee, Truman and others seated around a round table.
The head of the Vichy Regime Philippe Petain on a trial in Paris, France during World War II. Petain arrives at the Palais de Justice (10 Bd du Palais, 75001 Paris, France). Ex-Premiers of France Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud, Leon Blum, and Former President Albert Lebrun arrive to appear against Petain.
Dignitaries attend ceremonies at the 38th Anniversary of the U.S. Army Air Force ( USAAF ) in Dayton, Ohio during World War II. Orville Wright and other dignitaries view from the grandstand. A captured German Junkers Ju 290 transport aircraft arrives from abroad for study, bearing the painted slogan "Alles Kaputt". The aircraft takes off from a runway. A new P-80 Shooting Star jet aircraft is displayed and takes off.
Wounded soldiers of the United States Army arrive at LaGuardia Airport in New York from Europe during World War II. The wounded soldiers on stretchers are loaded aboard an aircraft in Europe. The aircraft in flight. It lands at LaGuardia Airport where the wounded soldiers are greeted by their relatives.
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