General Douglas MacArthur (Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area) steps from the wood and palm structure, serving as Headquarters of the 6th Army, on Goodenough Island, New Guinea, during World War 2. He poses with Lieutenant General Walter Kreuger, Commander of the Sixth Army in the South West Pacific Area. Members of Kreuger's staff pose with them. After the picture-taking, MacArthur shakes hands with one of the staff officers, as the group make their way to jeeps. Next, MacArthur is seen posing with several armed soldiers wearing steel combat helmets. They salute MacArthur as he walks away. General Kreuger stands in front of the headquarters hooch conversing with two of his staff. He and one of his staff hurry to a jeep, with two stars on the front plate. They drive away. . Generals MacArthur and Kreuger are seen sitiing in back seat of a jeep with modified roof cover. MacArthur converses with staff officers. They are next seen walking through a grove of trees, with staff officers behind them. Later, MacArthur leads the entourage along a pathway, with tents visible in background. As they walk, he converses with Major General Edwin F.Harding, Commander of the 32nd Infantry Division. An official photographer lingers in background. MacArthur and Kreuger lead the group past a large mess tent. (At this point the footage repeats starting back with their entry into the grove of trees and ending as they pass the mess tent.) After that MacArthur is seen speaking to two bareheaded officers. He then speaks with several soldiers, individually, as Generals Kreuger and Harding stand nearby. MacArthur converses with a Field Grade officer. He visits an infirmary tent and speaks to a patient and to members of the medical staff, including a woman Lieutenant nurse. He and General Kreuger are seen inspecting various areas in the camp.
Poor conditions of African American citizens in the rural south of the United States in 1940. African American children and women outside a simple house or shack. Battered clothes of a child depict the poor condition of the family. A young child gnaws on a rib bone. Barefeet of a child. A woman sows seed in a plowed field. African American man tills and plows a field as a horse pulls the plow. Closeup of a old woman wearing a scarf. She smiles. Men in dungarees talk in a circle as one of them holds a child. Closeup views of a a boy and a man who smile.
Desert Rock Exercises (Desert Rock IV) underway for testing of nuclear weapon at Yucca Flats area of Nevada Proving Ground outside Las Vegas, Nevada. Test shot Dog. Squad tents pitched to form a bivouac area at Camp Desert Rock, south of Camp Mercury. Mountains in the background. Giant white cloud of smoke rises from behind the mountains due to detonation of nuclear weapon during Operation Tumbler-Snapper. This was shot "Dog," a 19 kiloton TX-7 device airdrop in Area 7. A mushroom cloud forms. Soldiers watch the smoke rising after the testing of the nuclear bomb device known as Dog.
Allied Supreme Commander for South West Pacific Area, General Douglas MacArthur en route to Milne Bay, New Guinea during World War 2. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid and Rear Admiral Van Hook at Archerfield in Brisbane, Australia. They await the arrival of General MacArthur. A car arrives at the airfield and General MacArthur gets out of the car. The General being greeted by the Admirals. General MacArthur and the Admirals aboard MacArthur's personal B-17 Flying Fortress "Bataan" as they confer. Three officers aboard USS Phoenix underway in the Pacific Ocean. A convoy of Allied ship underway in far background with a sailor at a blinker in the foreground.
Allied landings at Anzio, Italy during World War 2. A DUKW ( amphibious tank ) unloads from an LST ( Landing Ship Tank). The DUKW underway at sea and moves towards land. U.S. Army 3rd Division soldiers in a Higgins boat head for a beach. Vehicles and other equipment being unloaded from the LST on a portable dock at Red Beach, south of Anzio. Soldiers of 74h Signal Battalion eat C rations. Equipment comes ashore. The LST in the background.
A film about the health programs for people in Candelaria, Colombia. Map of South America depicts the location of Colombia. A map of Columbia locates Candelaria. Views of the town. People seated in a public park. Women around a truck as boxes are unloaded from it. Girls walk down a street. A woman with her child. School girls with a nun. Children play on a street. A woman speaks as a boy stands next to her. Children play on a street.
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