Crew activities aboard 'The Fighting Lady', the USS Yorktown, CV-10, in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Sailors on board the day before attacking Japanese forces on Marcus Island. USS Yorktown underway in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. navy sailors drink coffee and play cards. They lie on bunk beds while listening to a crewman play an accordian. Men with tattoos on their legs and hands. Men play cards. A tanker comes to refuel the ship. Fuel lines between ships with rough seas. A weather balloon is released by a crewman. The skipper talks to the air group commander and view maps of Marcus Island. An animated map with large Japanese logo on it shows the path the USS Yorktown will take through the Marshall Islands to Marcus Island. The air group commander explains about the attack and shows with his hands some fine points in air dog fighting. The crewmen play games and write letters home before the strike. The radio plotting room. A lieutenant named E.T. Stocker plays cards with other officers. Sunset wide shot of USS Yorktown underway.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the chapel at Georgia Warm Springs Foundation in Warm Springs, Georgia. Cars parked on the road side. President Roosevelt arrives at the new chapel and drives up footpath to the door. Closeup of license plate on the President's 1938 Ford convertible (with hand controls) reads 'Georgia FDR 1938'. Following the dedication service, the President is seen standing supported by door of his car, as he shakes hands with Rt. Rev. Henry J. Mikell, D.D., Bishop of Atlanta. Standing nearby are Rev. J.D.C. Wilson, Rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in LaGrange, Georgia, and FDR's neighbor and friend, and former owner of Warm Springs, Georgia Mustian Wilkins, who donated the funds for the chapel. Scene shifts to large group of polio victims, in wheel chairs. Closeup of President Roosevelt. Group of polio victims , in their wheel chairs, posing outside a Foundation building, with McCarthy Cottage and the E.T. Curtis Cottage in background.
Allied drive towards Rome after the capture of Monte Casino during the end of World War II. Ruins of Cassino crushed by Allied war machines. Artillery shelled walls of Monte Cassino. Enemy mines and booby traps. Commanding officer of British, American and French army including British Army Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, U.S. Army General Mark W. Clark and Juin et al plan for the drive on Rome. Army tanks drive. Smoke rises. German prisoners are being taken.
Victory in Europe Day celebration in London, England at the end of World War II. 'The Glorious Dead' written at the Cenotaph (Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET, United Kingdom). Building in the background. People place flowers at the base of the Cenotaph. People purchase flags from a street vendor. Large crowd of civilians gathered at a street square for Victory in Europe (V-E) day celebration. Soldier on a horse back. People wave and hold flags.
Polish American establishments in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The American flag flies and smoke stacks in the background. Stanlev steel works plant. Men work at a World War 2 defense workers' housing project site. Advertisement on a building reads: "Photos for Passport or Citizenship." American flag waving in a brisk breeze. Sign in shop door reading: E.T. Krolikowski, Prop." Inside, visible through the glass door is a small banner reading,"God Bless America, We are proud to be AMERICANS." A sign in a restaurant window advertises Polish Kolbasy." It also displays a small banner reading: "God Bless America, its great to be an AMERICAN." Writing in window identifies Laniewsky's barber shop and shows a small striped shield stating: "This is AMERICA." Sign in Hungarian, on door of Hungarian Weekly newspaper reads: Editorial Office of "EGYETERTES Concord, SZERKESZTOSEGE" (Memorandum of Understanding Concord, Editorial)
Displaced Jewish orphans in Weimar, Germany soon after World War II. Jewish orphans who had been imprisoned at Buchenwald Concentration Camp by the Nazis, board a railroad train. Some of them saying goodbye. Allied soldiers stand around. The train pulls out as boy and girl orphan children wave from windows. Jewish flag hanging from a train window. Flowers adorn the train windows. One boy waves an American flag. Polish, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and French, Jewish orphan prisoners liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp board a train with their belongings. Signs on a side of the train: 'Recommencons une vie nouvelle et libre'. (Our beginning of a new life in liberty). The train pulls out from the station.
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