Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, visits United States and meets with U.S. President Richard Nixon. President Nixon and Brezhnev followed by others arrive at the South Portico. A hall packed with people. President Nixon and Brezhnev sit at a treaty table and read documents. The two leaders shake hands and walk back from corridor.
French aviator Paul Codos in Paris, France. Paul Codos walks towards an aircraft as he leaves for a flight across the South Atlantic from Paris to Buneos Aires, Argentina. Codos in the cockpit as the aircraft taxis at Le Bourget Airport. The aircraft takes off for its trans Atlantic flight.
U.S. troops battle North Koreans in Taejon, Korea during the Korean War. U.S. 25th Infantry Division troops fire howitzers, bazookas and other artillery weapons at North Korean positions. U.S. tanks fire at enemy positions. Smoke rises from enemy positions on hills. A U.S. aircraft bombs enemy positions. U.S. troops cover a bridge with rifle and machine gun fire to help the last units to cross a river near Yongdon. Men in a jeep fire guns as it goes across a bridge. United Nations flag flies from a pole at U.S. 24th Division Regimental Command Post in Chinju. North Korean prisoners are rounded up at the command post as South Korean troops move up to aid the defense. Trucks tow camouflage artillery guns up a hill. 25th Division infantrymen advance and recover their vehicles.
Map of Korea showing 38th parallel boundary. View of 38th parallel with the numbers "38" seen on the ground. The United Nations Commission meeting in Seoul. U.S. troops leaving the Korean peninsula. Aerial view of the harbor in Seoul. Fire and smoke in the mountains as North Koreans attack. South Korean soldiers marching into battle. Korean soldiers in trenches firing from hill top. The first Korean War refugees. The UN gathering at Lake Success, NY. General MacArthur receives the UN battle flag. Aerial view of the port at Pusan. U.S. troops landing in Pusan. A parade of troops led by U.S., U.N. , and Republic of Korea flags disembark at Pusan from a landing ship, number 222. U.S. troops firing weapons at North Koreans, including mortar, machine guns, and howitzers.
United States General Courtney Hughes speaks during a radio talk in United States. General Courtney H. Hodges speaks into a microphone as he talks to radio audiences soon after the end of World War II in Europe. He says that he is happy to be home and will soon visit his home town in Georgia. He says that after that he will visit Washington and then leave for the South Pacific where the United States 1st Army has been ordered to go. He poses with other officers.
American Troop Carrier crews gather for a briefing on August 14, 1944, the day before the Operation Dragoon invasion of Southern France, in World War 2. The captions then refer to their return to the United Kingdom later that month, and to the United States in October 1944. The air crews are seen assembled outdoors at an airfield in Italy. The weather is hot and some of them are shirtless. Some airmen are seen wearing Khaki shorts or singlets. Views of the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan, New York City skyline, taken when some aircrew members returned to the United States in October 1944.
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