A group of Chinese Nationalist (KMT) and several American soldiers are gathered in the courtyard of a building in an industrial area of China during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War (World War 2). After conversing, they disperse and camera pans across surrounding compound that looks like it could house soldiers or workers. Another view of the American and Chinese soldiers conversing. Views of industrial buildings with smoke stacks. Corpse of a dead person lying on the ground near damaged building. View through hole in brick side of the building. Interior is strewn with debris.More views of damaged buildings in low-walled compound.
Abandoned industrial complex. Factories and warehouses. A Chinese soldier stands near sign reading: "U.N.R.R.A. It Is Belonged To Our Office. No Admittance To Anybody Or Armies To Enter." Damaged buildings in view. Several Americans pick their way through factory Interior which is littered with debris. and human remains. Two of them carry cameras. One, an American military photographer takes pictures. They also inspect huge parts of destroyed factory machinery. Two Americans discuss this and take notes. Pedestrians walk on a sidewalk. Many Chinese persons cook and eat in area containing wooden tables and chairs at edge of large open air marketplace. Food stalls and stalls of medicines in the area. A Nationalist Chinese flag flies from a small building in the area. A large group of Chinese children posing for the camera, with their teacher organizing them. Grownups are in the back of the group. Scene shifts to closeup of another group of Chinese people posing for the camera. View of a barricaded and sand-bagged official building. Two Chinese soldiers march past with shouldered rifles. Two civilians with back packs walk past. Closeup of a Chinese soldier during World War II. Glimpse of two armed soldiers guarding stacks of grain of flour. [Note: this film may contain segments that are unrelated and from different places and times.)
An empty snow-covered courtyard next to an abandoned building with Russian writing on it reading: "СССР и Китад" (USSR and China). A hand cart sits with a carton on it. A low wall extends from the courtyard enclosing what appear to be residential buildings. Laundry is hung on a line to dry, behind one of the houses. View down the snowy street. View, back again to courtyard and building with Russian writing on it. An American Army officer walking through rubble of badly damaged factory during World War II. Another American joins him and they inspect damaged and destroyed heavy machinery. They are joined by several other persons. More views of bombed out buildings.
Aerial views of airfield in Illesheim, Germany, at the end of World War II. Numerous single-engine airplanes are parked in various places on the airfield. Among them are P-47s of the U.S. 9th Air Force. View from above of a U.S. P-47 taking off from the field. Flights of P-47s fly overhead and break formation to land.
An aerial view of the city of Nuremberg, Germany. View of the bomb damaged buildings and streets. Vehicles on the streets. Bomb damaged marshalling yards in view. Smoke rises up in the sky. A bridge over a river in view. (World War II period).
The end of World War 2 in Europe. United States fighter aircraft P-47 Thunderbolts of the 362nd Fighter Group in Germany. Group commander's P-47 (multi-colored checkered cowl represents all three assigned squadrons) taxiing on an airfield. The planes take off. Group commander leads a formation of twelve P-47s from the 379th Fighter Squadron (yellow cowlings). They maneuver in flights of four each.
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