United States 1st Division troops flush out the German paratroopers in South of Eupen, Belgium during World War II. A soldier watches through binoculars. Squadron from United States 1st Division, 18th Infantry, 1st Battalion, M Company, search woods for German paratroopers. A soldier in woods loads rifle BAR. The soldiers move in a wooded area.
United States 1st Division troops flush out the German paratroopers in South of Eupen, Belgium during World War II. A soldier of squadron from United States 1st Division, 18th Infantry, 1st Battalion, M Co. examines an abandoned parachute packing case and white cap in woods.
United States 1st Division flush out the German paratroopers in South of Eupen, Belgium during World War II. A soldier of squadron from United States 1st Division, 18th Infantry,1st Battalion, M Co. sets up 30 caliber light machine gun at edge of fire break. Soldiers advance across an open field and enter woods. The soldiers load rifles and move into action.
Dramatization shows how one defective walkie-talkie can impair battle plans, United States. U.S. transporters including cruisers, destroyers and crew carrying ships underway in South Pacific on a mission to attack on Japanese installation and Island no. 6. A personnel plays whistle from the bridge of cruiser. Interior of manned radio operations room:Task Force officers sitting around table and discuss over battle plans. A personnel talks on radio device. American bombers in formation flight. Pilot and copilot in cockpit. American aircraft drop bombs on Japanese installation. Explosion and large column of smoke rise. Task Force officers look at map of Japanese island no. 6 in the radio room. Animated map shows Japanese Island no. 6 showing an amphibious landing and bombers on a mission. U.S. soldiers on landing crafts with walkie-talkies. Artillery fire on the Pacific island. Troops disembark from the landing craft and heads towards beach area. Soldiers move into action and fire artillery. (World War II period).
Film showing city of Hiroshima, Japan, before and after the August 6, 1945 dropping of the atomic bomb over the city in World War 2. Sequence opens on what the narrator says is August 5, 1945, the day before the event (but the footage is likely from before that date). Camera pans over the city of Hiroshima before the atomic bomb destroyed the city. Japanese air raid lookouts are seen on watch for allied bombers. View of atomic bomb detonation as seen from aircraft high overhead (this is actually a view of the Nagasaki blast, not the Hiroshima blast despite narrator's comments). Next, the complete destruction of the city of Hiroshima is seen from camera at low altitude showing the four and one half square miles of the city flattened and burned. A Japanese hospital still functioning, with red cross flag on it. Hospital workers retrieving wounded victims of the bombing. Ambulatory victims clustered in doorways and halls. Shadow image of a large industrial valve wheel burned onto wall behind it. Similar image of a ladder burned onto a wall. The decorative pattern on a woman's dress burned onto skin of her back. Japanese physicians treating victims of thermal and radiation burns. Views of various victims, including some children, and their respective injuries. Scene shifts forward one year, to August 6, 1946. Children are lined up outside a school building, and then seen inside their classroom. Disfiguration and wounds on children resulting from injuries are still evident on the children at their desks. Sequence shifts again, this time to an early United Nations meeting with delegates grappling with the issue of controlling nuclear power and atomic weapons. Closeup view of American delegates, including James F. Byrnes (Secretary of State)and James B. Conant, President of Harvard University in the assembly. Closeups of representatives from South Asian nations. Closeup of USSR delegation, headed by Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov. Signs identifying delegates from Colombia, Egypt, Iraq, Bolivia, China. Final sequence shows several U.S. atomic scientists in their respective laboratories, including Enrico Fermi and Vannevar Bush. United States representative to the UN, Warren Austin, speaking about the so-called Baruch Plan, for international control of atomic weapons. (Principal author, Bernard Baruch, is standing behind speaker's left shoulder.) USSR delegation, headed by permanent representative, Andrei Gromyko, who is seen presenting the Soviet plan. View of explosion and mushroom cloud during U.S. Operation Crossroads atomic bomb test in the Pacific.
Transport and infrastructure in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Incline railways carry passengers up and down the steep Pittsburgh hills. Automobiles driven onto incline railway car. Views of incline railways in operation, including point of view footage as seen from within a moving incline railway car. The business district of Pittsburgh. Automobiles, pedestrians, horse drawn vehicle traffic on the street in the industrial district. Pedestrians walking on wide sidewalk with Union Station (Pennsylvania Station, or also called Penn Station) in background, at Grant Street and Liberty Avenue, south of the Allegheny River. The Ford Motor Company Plant. Exterior view of the Moreland-Hoffstot House mansion in the Shadyside area of Pittsburgh.
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