Views from dock in New York and from aboard ship as the SS Marine Flasher arrives in New York on May 20, 1946, after departing Bremerhaven Germany on May 11, 1946. Crowd of people gathered to greet passengers getting off the ship. Scenes show jubilant people and some reunions of family members or relatives. The passengers are largely displaced persons and refugees from World War 2. People disembark the ship. A woman with her child stands in front of a hatch. Three women aboard the ship pose. A woman kisses a man. People meet their relatives. People leave with their luggage. The luggage of the people with tags. Luggage tags with name (Ingeborg) Inge Rummeni of 824 North 38th St. Milwaukee Wisconsin on them. A woman and a child show concentration camp number tattoos on their arms from a Nazi German prison camp.
A Nazi German propaganda film shows deplorable living conditions under Communist rule in the Soviet Union during World War II. Half starving Russian men and women in crude huts. Exteriors of a building. Interiors of the building shows barefoot and ragged Russian children smoking cigarettes. A church being converted into an electric powerhouse. A cobbler and a baker at work. Russian prisoners of war march and victorious German troops advance.
Invasion of Italy by the United States during World War II. U.S. troops advance past rubble and damaged buildings. U.S. troops search for enemy snipers in partially damaged buildings damaged by Allied bombings. German prisoners are marched. A dead German soldier lying on the ground.
French troops advance in Belfort, France during World War II. French troops of 2nd Moroccan Division and French 5th Armored Division advance behind an M-4 tank. The soldiers fire 30 caliber light machine guns. A dead German soldier in a ditch. A wounded German soldier lies in a ditch. French soldiers arrive with a group of German prisoners.
U.S. 6th Marines, 22nd Regiment and 2nd Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. The Marines advance along an open field towards a high ridge. Japanese prisoners move down a roadway guarded by Marine MPs (Military Policemen). The U.S. flag is raised on a small tree on the top of the ridge overlooking ocean during flag raising ceremonies on the southern tip of Okinawa.
U.S. 6th Marines, 22nd Regiment and 2nd Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Injured Okinawan civilians who were hiding in a large cave are treated by U.S. medical corpsmen. The Marines stand on the edge of a large cave. American soldier carries an injured civilian woman to a open bed truck loaded with other Okinawa civilians. Water and food is given to Japanese prisoners. U.S. Army soldier gives water to a native civilian girl and boy.
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