View of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria. Cremation ovens used to execute the prisoners. A German guard held at gun point by the American troops. Liberated American speaks, surrounded by a group of prisoners. He is U.S. Navy Lieutenant Jack H. Taylor of Hollywood, California. Filmed by Lt. Col. George C. Stevens, he says that in October 1944 he was the first allied officer to drop into Austria. He says he was captured December 1, 1944 by the Gestapo, and severely beaten. He details his imprisonment time in Austria and then at Mauthausen. He shows insignia and dog tags of two American soldiers who were executed in a gas chamber of the camp by the Germans. He details the multiple methods used by the Germans to kill prisoners, including shooting, gas chamber, beating, exposure in the snow for 48 hours with cold water thrown on them, starvation, dogs, and pushing off a hundred foot cliff. He thanks the American 11th Armored Division for rescuing them. (World War II period).
From a U.S. Army training film titled "Hygiene For Women - Protecting Health." Shows two women cleaning a convertible car. Men and women playing a game of lawn tennis in mixed doubles. Various scenes of women working in offices, eating ice cream at shopping malls. Men and women dancing in 1960s fashions, including doing the twist dance, drinking alcohol, and smoking cigarettes in a nightclub. Woman suffers hangover as a result of excessive drinking. She wakes up with a headache and is seen looking uncomfortable getting out of bed and at work that day. Narrator says that too much alcohol too often can lead to addiction. Shows image of woman writhing in bed and screaming out during detoxification from alcohol addiction.
Aerial views of U.S. 425th Night Fighter Squadron P-61s flying in formation at a high altitude above Colomiers, France. They display D-day invasion stripes. Glimpse of ground crewman working near oxygen cylinders. More views of P-61s in formation. View from one P-61, of another in flight behind it. View from a P-61 joining up on left wing of another (number42-5550), which then breaks off to the right. View from inside a landing P-61, showing extended landing gear.
U.S. GI's come in from breakfast with lunch kits in their hands in Colomiers, France. P-61s (Black Widow) can be seen parked in background. Farmer plows a field with pair of oxen. French workers gather stones to repair a runway.
View of a dockyard in Saigon, Vietnam. Vietnamese workers at the yard. American soldier watches Vietnamese worker stencil 'US GOVT' on supply crates. Supply crates loaded on trailers and trucks. Loaded trucks drive off. U.S. cargo ship at the dock. Supply crates stashed in large numbers at the dock. American flag flutters on the ship. (Vietnam War period).
United States soldiers in Frattamaggiore, Campania, Italy during World War II. Two U.S. soldiers accompanied with an Italian woman on the roof of a building. The soldiers play accordion and mandolin as the girl sings. United States soldier smiles while playing music on the rooftop. Italian woman singing.
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