Princess Juliana of the Netherlands visits Curacao Island, a Dutch colony in South America. Princess Juliana on a motorcade in Willemstad. Curacaoans cheer and welcome the Princess. Princess Juliana receives a bouquet of flowers from an open car. People cheering from colonial Dutch-style houses. Dutch Marines in white uniform forming an honor guard during a parade. United Nation countries (United States, Republic of China, Netherlands, etc) flags pass in review. Princess Juliana watches the parade with Dutch colonial officials.
U.S. action in South Pacific during World War II. General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz look at a map on a table. Gen. MacArthur points at a map on a wall. An animated map shows Bougainville Islands in the Pacific Ocean. An explosion on a ship. Low flying U.S. planes strafe the enemy positions on the island. A soldier talks over a radio. Soldiers of 37th Division of the U.S. Army move inland on the island. Tanks and soldiers move forward. Soldiers aim and fire through their rifles. Artillery loaded and fired. Explosions in the distance. U.S. soldiers throw hand grenades. Dead Japanese soldiers on the ground. A trolley unloads gravel. Rollers level the land. An airbase is established. A man at controls. A plane lands at an airstrip. Soldiers move towards the plane.
Japanese invasion of China. Chinese soldiers blow the trumpet. Young men march in a field. Young men register in the Army. Millions of young people answer the call to fight for China. Volunteers from south, north, east and west China to form the people's army. Men and women with their children leave to join the forces. Drumming sound. New recruits train and perform a drill to drum beats. Soldiers practice martial arts, rifle handling, and shooting. Others train to care for the sick and wounded. Women soldiers in uniform. They learn to fire a gun. Pilots crowd around an officer. Planes in the background. Men from other countries prepare to fight for China. U.S. Colonel Claire Chennault of the American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers, talks to his men. The Curtiss P-40 Warhawks with the shark face emblems take off. Chinese soldiers march. Japan: Japanese officials in a meeting. Japanese troops penetrate China along the rivers. They rebuild destroyed rail roads using slave labor. A map depicts the Japanese strategy of cutting off Chinese supply lines. Japanese warships blockade the coast with the aim to isolate China. Japanese occupied ports in China. Japanese warships and boats in a Chinese port. Gas plants, gun factories and planes. Indochina map: The narrow gauge railway from sea to Kunming and a truck road to Chungking. The camel trail from Russia across the Gobi Desert. The railroad from Rangoon to Lashio in Burma. (World War II period).
U.S. Admiral Byrd's special navy mission in the South Pacific. An airfield at the Galapagos Islands. USS Concord CL-10 in background. Scenes of the airfield. Barracks in the background. A seaplane ramp and water in foreground.
U.S. Admiral Byrd's special navy mission in the South Pacific. Vegetation on the island. View of the island. Houses in the background. Beach and wharf at the island. Ships in the water. Unloading of lumber from a boat on the beach.
U.S. Admiral Byrd's special navy mission in the South Pacific. View of an airstrip on the Galapagos Islands. A plane taxis and takes off from the airstrip. Jeeps parked on the airfield. Two men stand and talk.
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