Life of people in Barbados as seen by passengers visiting on an ocean liner of the Hamburg-American line during a cruise of the South Seas. Boys and girls row boats and dive for coins thrown by passenger aboard a visiting ocean liner anchored in the bay. A small sailboat glides through the group of row boats. . Boys in the boats dive for coins. Group of German tourists motor by, with a Nazi swastika flag mounted at the stern of their boat. The Horatio Nelson Monument in Bridgetown. The native police officers (Bobbies) walk past buildings. Sign for "Henry" street visible. Shops visible including "R.S. Nicholls" and "Collins". A vertical sign "Candy, Cigars, Drugs, Kodaks". Civilians on streets. Cars parked in the background. A police officer on horse back. A cart drawn by a donkey hauling wood. Man walks beside the cart. Sign on cart includes word "yearwood". Another donkey cart with wood and sign includes words, "James Blunt" and "St. Michael". Ships and people at a harbor. Women carrying goods for sale upon large trays on their heads. The Bridgetown Parliament building and clock tower. A view of coral Island, beach and tropical sea of Bath and Conset Bays from the Hackleton's Cliff and St Johns Church. Brief glimpse of Hamburg-American line passengers in a tender, returning to their ship.
Troop movements and preparations for D-Day Invasion of France during World War II. U.S. 82nd Airborne Division troops walk in a squad and move past a British guard . They walk down to a harbor where they board a Landing Craft Vehicle (LCV). Boats at the south England harbor in the background. The troops in the LCV leave the harbor.
Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. View from moving vehicle in the park. Many 1960s cars and recreational vehicles (RV) drive past on a road. Trees on either side of the road. The cars stop at the South Entrance station and then move one after the other. They drive past a lake. Trees in the foreground. A car drives across a small bridge. The cars driving past. A dense forest on either side. The lake in the foreground. A road alongside the lake. Sign for West Thumb area.The car moves on the road. A village area and information center and cars parked at a parking lot. People walk on a pathway.
Early days of Operation Market Garden in Nijmegen, Holland, Netherlands during World war II. Animated map of France, Belgium, and Netherlands. Allied transport and resupply aircraft in flight over clouds. Aerial view of Nijmegen Netherlands. Allied parachutes carrying supplies floating toward ground. The aircraft drop supplies in the south of Nijmegen. First Allied Airborne Army troops arrive by parachutes and gliders. The parachutists jump from the aircraft and descend towards the land. Unusual scene from camera strapped to the chest of a paratrooper. Shows view upon first jumping, and then view from paratrooper in sky descending and surrounded by other paratroopers with aircraft overhead and ground nearing below. U.S. aircraft parked on a field. The sky if filled with parachutists who are landing. German antiaircraft fire targets Allied planes. An Allied aircraft plunges toward the earth and crashes with a fireball. The Allied troops advance. Explosion in the foreground due to bombing. The aircraft drops bombs. Smoke raises in the foreground due to the bombardment. Gliders in flight. British 1st Airborne Division soldiers advance, engaging in Battle of Arnhem.
U.S. 2nd Division Marines process about 10 Japanese soldiers taken prisoner on Betio, Tarawa atoll, during the battle there in World War 2. They cut away the prisoners' clothing to assure they don't carry weapons or explosives. (Narrator states they were later given replacement clothing from captured supplies.) Marines tend to a wounded Japanese prisoner. Japanese prisoners carrying their own wounded to a pier for evacuation. Marines cleaning up using water from captured Japanese steel barrels. Marines stand on fortifcations containing British Vickers BL 15 inch Mark I coastal defense guns captured by the Japanese in Singapore. These were knocked out by U.S. naval gunfire during the pre-assault bombardment. Closeup of one breech of a gun. A knocked out Japanese light tank at the South side of Japanese Rear Admiral Shibasaki's headquarters on Betio. (Shibasaki, commander of the Japanese forces there, was reportedly killed by U.S. Naval gunfire early in the assault.) Panning view of the remains of the reinforced concrete Japanese headquarters structure. U.S. Seabees using power shovel, dump trucks, graders, and heavy rollers, to restore the airfield for U.S. operations.
The President of South Korea Syngman Rhee and U.S. Army General Maxwell Davenport Taylor in Korea. A sign on a board reads '3rd Infantry Division review Field Organization Day'. The President puts a U.S. 3rd Infantry Division flag. A close up U.S. soldiers. He pins up a medal on a U.S. soldier. Korean soldiers parade and the General and the President review the parade.
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