A college football game played between the University of Southern California (USC) and the U.S. Naval Academy from Annapolis, in Los Angeles, California. Large crowd of people gathered to watch the game. The game in progress. The University of Southern California wins the game over Navy 42-20.
German officers tour France during World War II. Officers including German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, German Air Force Minister Hermann Göring and others seated at a desk in the train car. They discuss a map. Soldiers at a railroad station. The soldiers entrain. They meet their loved ones. They wave towards them as the train leaves the station. Houses and buildings in the background. The train on a railway track. Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering and other officers seated in Hitler's private railroad car touring occupied southern France. The soldiers wave at a station. A board reads: Hendaye (on the southern border of France near Spain. Hitler and officers at railroad station in Hendaye as train arrives with Spanish leader Francisco Franco on board. Franco exits the train and greets Hitler. They walk past German soldiers at attention, as Franco offers a Nazi salute. Franco and Hitler board another waiting train.
The film 'Sea power in the Pacific' showing Japanese dominance in China and at start of World War 2. Then it chronicles U.S. efforts to build Navy and fight back on sea and in the air. Opening scene shows Japanese Mitsubishi G3M (Type 96) bombers high overhead, and then closeup in formation. View from bomber of bomb bays open with bombs falling and view from ground of explosions and destruction. Overlay on film says: "China---1931." (This is not correct. The G3M bomber was not yet in service.) This film depicts Japanese attacks during second Sino-Japanese War, commencing 1937, Chinese civilians running to escape Japanese bombing of Singapore. Buildings destroyed and on fire. Next, Japanese troops, carrying the Rising Sun flag, are seen establishing a beachhead in an Amphibious assault. More scenes of Japanese infantry advancing through Singapore, ad it is being destroyed and burned. Soldiers charging along an alleyway, with pagoda in background. Next, Japanese soldiers are seen attacking Nanking, and committing atrocities and killing Chinese during the so-called "Rape of Nanking," in December, 1937. Chinese civilians being summarily shot and dumped into a large open grave after execution. Two Chinese prisoners with hands bound, being executed by rifle fire. Jubilant Japanese troops celebrating their victory. Map shows areas of China occupied during second Sino-Japanese war and the East Indies to the South. View of oil tanks; an open pit tin mine; a native cutting rubber tree bark to collect latex. Flags on map show regions of English, French, and Dutch colonial interest. It also shows Islands to the East, fortified by the Japanese. Cartoon shows Japanese soldier opposed by and American sailor (representing U.S. Sea Power). Next, famous images of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941, are shown, including the USS Arizona burning and sinking. Hawaii, Midway, Wake, and the Philippines Islands, are highlighted on a map and Japanese control of the Pacific is illustrated. Japanese soldiers are seen displaying a captured American flag. U.S. Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright is seen surrendering the garrison at Corregidor, on May 6, 1942. View of Japanese General Masahara Homma discussing surrender terms with Wainright. Map shows interlocking web of Japanese fortified bases in Pacific and need for seapower to oppose it. View of American shipyard with hundreds of workers, employed to build ships for the war effort, in World War 2. Views welding, metal fabrication, and other shipbuilding activity. A new ship going down the ways and a woman christening a new ship with splash from bottle of champagne. A new "Liberty Ship," the Richard Bassett, going down the ways at Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard Inc. Baltimore, Maryland. Closeup view as the stern of another ship enters the water upon launching. View of it from a distance. Shipyard workers knock supports from under what may be a landing craft, as it is launched. Japanese warships underway in the Pacific and firing their naval guns. Explosions on a shoreline from naval bombardment. Japanese infantry wading ashore during an amphibious assault. Map shows where Japanese forces attempt an amphibious assault on Southern New Guinea, thwarted by the U.S. Navy in the battle of the Coral Sea of May, 1942. In June, 1942, a Japanese attempt against Midway Island, was again checked by the U.S. Navy in the Battle of Midway. View of USS Wasp (CV-7) carrier deck filled with airplanes, including Grumman F4F Wildcats. A Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber being cleared for takeoff from the Wasp. Gun camera film showing Japanese airplanes being shot down by pursuing U.S. aircraft.
Physical damage caused by the atomic bombings in Nagasaki, Japan towards the end of World War II. The Medical School. A collapsed granite column in the destroyed building which originally stood between building H and J. The direction the column fell. The mannered in which the column sheared when it hit the stone steps. The granite column which originally stood just south of the entrance of a wooden frame building between buildings H and J. The columns and relative distance they were moved. A wall of a building H. The remains of the wooden frame structure which was situated between buildings H and J. The face of the building H clearly shows manner in which this building was attached to south wall of building H. The face of building J in the background with foundation of a wooden frame structure, which was destroyed by fire in the foreground. The wall of building D of reinforced concrete structure. The shadows cast on flash burn surface of building by roof overhang and a water pipe and copper down spout. The wall of the building F, a reinforced concrete structure, whose west wall although affected by blast did not fail completely. The three fourth inch concrete stucco scrubbed off. The dissecting tables in a small building which was employed as an autopsy room. A monument off the north east corner of building G, the direction trees fallen on monument with the column of building in the background. The stone monument with following inscription engraved in German 'Perseverance Leads to Success'.
Oscar Hammerstein introduces the song "You've Got to be Taught" from his show "South Pacific" during The National Conference of Christians and Jews Brotherhood Week. Richard Rodgers plays "You've Got to be Taught" on the piano while William Tabbert sings as the character Lt. Joseph Cable from "South Pacific." The lyrics address racism and prejudice, and how they are taught rather than innate.
The film 'My Brother's Keeper' shows the plight of South East Asian refugees, with focus on role of international organizations in Europe. Host Alexander speaks about to save refugees and to frame problems of South East Asian refugees in global perspective. He says that international aid can be helpful in this matter.
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