Three soldiers who fought in the Korean war receive the Congressional Medal of Honor in Washington DC. U.S. President Truman decorates the soldiers. People watch the soldiers and applaud. Cameramen record the event.
A beauty pageant in Greece. Girls compete for the title of Miss Hellas in Greece. They walk on the ramp. People watch them and applaud. The winner with the award.
People walk in the Easter Parade in New York. Men, women and children walk wearing colorful dresses. Houses along the street. Women wearing bonnets.
Nevada testing ground. Operation Tumbler-Snapper U.S. Army soldiers in trenches crouch down and cover their ears as they prepare for an atomic bomb detonation blast. Flash on horizon as bomb is detonated in nuclear test. Men emerge from trenches and point while mushroom cloud from explosion rises before them. View of blast wave with heavy dust approaching camera position. Dust cloud from blast hits men while many still have their heads above ground level. A soldier covers his mouth as dust from blast wave hits him.
May Day Parade in Bucharest, likely in Aviatorilor Boulevard, full of participants and decorated with posters of Lenin and Stalin during the Cold War. Women clap their hands in the air as they march in unison during the May Day Parade. Female communist party members wave flowers as they march with large poster of Lenin and Stalin. Officials of the Romanian Communist Party on review stand. President Petru Groza waves at crowd from review stand of May Day Parade. Romanian citizens carrying posters of Lenin and Stalin participate in May Day Parade.
May Day Paraders carry large banners of Soviet and Bulgarian Communist leaders during May Day Parade in Sofia, Bulgaria. Bulgarian students carry a large poster of Georgi Dimitrov, the first Communist Prime Minister of Bulgaria. Students wave small flower bouquets as they carry Dimitrov’s poster during the May Day Parade. Prime Minister and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Valko Chervenkov on review stand with other Bulgarian officials. Bulgarian officials wave at crowd. Bulgarians clap their hands and cheer during May Day Parade. Chinese delegates, likely from the People’s Republic of China, clap alongside Bulgarians during May Day Parade in Sofia.