United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) underway in the South China Sea. Taiwan Lieutenant General Chiang Kai Shek visits the aircraft carrier. Chinese dignitaries aboard the aircraft carrier. United States Marines stand in formation. Ambassador Paul L. Rankin is greeted by Admiral Pride. Officers greet each other. Chinese officers aboard the ship. Ambassador Paul L. Rankin reviews the United States Marine Corps honor guard.
World War 2, aerial view of air attacks (from unseen U.S. aircraft) on Japanese military camps in the slopes of mountains rising abruptly over the Keelung (aka Chi-lung, Kirun, or Kiirun) coast of Formosa (Taiwan). Clusters of small explosions are seen covering the camps
Philippines occupation by Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. Japanese soldiers advance through a jungle. They carry wooden boxes on their shoulders. They lay wires in the jungle. A soldier cuts a tree. Trees falling. Taiwan labor troops carry ammunition. Trucks pass along a dirt road. Men unload wooden boxes from a truck. A man carries haystack. Japanese soldiers taking care of horses. A Japanese soldier brushes a horse’s mane. Soldiers watch a horse drinking from a stream. Soldiers stand near an anti-aircraft artillery emplacement. Japanese troops rub down shoes and curry horses at a supply dump in the jungle. They attend mail calls and read their mail. A Japanese soldier looks at a photo of his beloved. Japanese soldiers smile as they happily read letters from home. Japanese soldiers enter a nipa hut and write mail during their spare time. Troops unload sacks of mail in front of a military headquarters. The Japanese flag hangs in front of the military headquarters. A Filipino man bathes a carabao or native water buffalo.
Animated map shows thrust of German forces during invasion of Soviet Russia in World War 2. Stalingrad is highlighted as a turning point. Another animated map shows Soviet territorial gains at the end of the war, as narrator discusses the disposition of those places and their respective populations, as in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. He also discusses Soviet zones of occupation. Animated map shows "Iron Curtain." Soviet troops on parade. Soviet ZSU-57-2 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns (SPAAG) on display during a parade in 1945. A stadium filled with people in Soviet-occupied East Germany, in 1949. Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck, the first President of the German Democratic Republic, is seen in the stands. Young East German women parade in traditional costumes, clapping their hands, in the stadium. Waterfront scenes show Soviet trade activities with post-war occupied entities. Scenes of conflict as Chinese communist forces expel Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Chinese forces (ROC) from mainland China to Formosa (Taiwan), in 1949. A litter-borne casualty and a refugee mother and small girl are seen as they evacuate.
German invasion of Russia during World War II. A map showing German invasion path in Russia until defeat at siege of Stalingrad. A map showing Soviet postwar expansion into Eastern Poland, East Prussia, portions of Finland and other areas. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are incorporated as Republics into the Soviet Union. Russian zones of occupation in Germany, Austria and North Korea. Map depicts an "Iron Curtain" encompassing the Soviet postwar territories. Soviet troops and tanks occupying countries. Soviet ZSU-57-2 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns traveling along a city street. Crowds cheering in a stadium in Soviet East Germany. President Wilhelm Pieck of the German Democratic Republic is among people seen applauding in the stands. . Soviet cargo ships in a harbor operating under trade agreements. Chinese Communist forces moving with guns and artillery and tanks to expel Chiang Kai-Shek and Chinese Nationalists from mainland China to Taiwan, in 1949. Chinese refugees flee an area, carrying an injured civilian on a stretcher. A refugee child is shown with the group of people.
Liberated Chinese and Korean prisoners arrive in South Korea after the Korean War. The group includes 14,000 former communist Chinese (People's Republic of China) soldiers who are defecting to Taiwan (Republic of China) and are welcomed as "anti-Communist Heroes." The liberated prisoners leave stockades of Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission. Freed prisoners carry flags and get into trucks which pass along streets of Seoul. A crowd cheers for the prisoners.