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United States 182nd Regiment lands and invades city of Cebu in Philippines.
U.S. 182nd Regiment lands on Cebu. U.S. landing crafts approach Cebu beach. Troops wade ashore. Palm trees in the background. Major General William H Arnold mapping the drive to city. Equipment is unloaded by men. U.S. troops advance toward Cebu city and encounter road blocks. They sweep for land mines on their way to city. A Bomb is taken out of a hole. Dead body of American soldier killed by land mine. 4.2 inch mortars are brought forward by the 80th Chemical Mortar Battalion (CMB) on beach. Tanks and troops advance towards a village where first organized enemy resistance is encountered. Troops take cover behind trees and fire rifles at Japanese snipers hiding in houses. Trooper throws grenade in house and moves back. Explosion in house. House is set on fire. Wounded Japanese comes out of house and falls down. Troops advance further. Troops greeted by civilians. Native carriages, tanks and troops advance in village. Japanese prisoners under guard. Troops move through rubble and wreckage of building in village. Troops advance through old military installation Fort San Pedro. Wreckage of building. Troops move along streets of Cebu. (World War II; WWII;World War 2; WW2)
Events of 1947: Marshall plan aid; Communists demonstrating in Europe; meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers; the Freedom Train touring America
Industrial scenes in America with a factory with smoke from chimneys, a steel factory in operation, views of the tops of railroad train coal cars filled with coal. Secretary of State George Marshall speaks about providing European countries with material and money (Marshall Plan). He is seen speaking to legislators in Washington DC on November 10, 1947, asking for funds for Austria, Italy, and France "to provide the supplies necessary to permit the people of these countries to continue to eat, to work, and to survive the winter." Truman signs an interim aid bill, S 1774 on December 17, 1947. View of Eiffel Tower in Paris and communists marching and demonstrating in France. Communist demonstrations across Europe. French police monitor communist protestors in France and then disperse a crowd of communists. Narrator notes of similar communist demonstrations in Italy. Winston Churchill arrives for peace conference meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers in London in December 1947. Vyascheslav Molotov attends the conference. George Marshall talks with Molotov. View of the Friendship Train railroad train in the United States approaching on railway tracks during its tour. Also a view of the 1947 special exhibit Freedom Train traveling. Citizens board the Freedom Train at one of its train station stops, to view artifacts and exhibits about American democracy, including a 1823 facsimile of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Exterior view of U.S. Supreme Court building. Statues at the Supreme Court building. The base is inscribed 'The Heritage of the Past is the Seed that Brings Forth the Harvest of the Future'. A group of American boys and girls are seen reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. A larger group of children reciting the pledge of Allegiance (from before the 1950s when "under God" was added) and viewing an American flag fluttering in the wind. View of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, and then another view from the top of the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building looking outward.
Canadian veterans learn trades at the Toronto Rehabilitation Training Center in Canada.
Toronto Rehabilitation Training Center in Canada. Canada's ex-servicemen learn profitable trades after World War 2. Veterans are taught carpentry, using hammer and nails. A veteran learning brick laying has his work checked using a level. Veterans being taught machining operate lathes. One veteran in a wheel chair does not have legs. Barber classes for Canadian veterans. A student barber practices shaving using a straight razor on a balloon. The balloon explodes, covering his face with foam.
British film intended to acquaint British people with United States landscape, rail transportation, and farming history.
British World War 2 era film showing scenes in the United States from earlier in the 1900s. Film opens showing 19th Century animated map of the United States. It traces the development of the railroads in the U.S. It shows rail lines reaching the Missouri River by the year 1860. (Narrator states this took 250 years to happen.) But in another 10 years, the map shows the Union Pacific and other rail lines extending two the West Coast, and U.S. commerce shifting, from North-South movement, to East-West (with an animated steam locomotive moving across the map). Chicago is highlighted as the greatest railway junction in the world (the "Piccadilly Circus" as the British narrator describes it). View of a late 1800s model steam locomotive train pulling freight railroad cars on railroad tracks in a desert area of the Western United States. Point of view from camera on moving railroad train pointing straight down at railroad tracks moving by at high speed. Landscape and wide views of the arid Western parts of the U.S. Group of Native American Indians watching a railroad train pass. Construction supplies being offloaded from a train. A wind-driven water pump. Buffalo herds affected by the railroads. Wire fencing installed to control cattle on large Western ranches. Large team of horses pulling late 1800s wheat harvesting farm equipment as it harvests wheat in fields. Views of wheat grains being poured at high volume. Cattle roaming in the high country. Views of Chicago stock yards. A man marking in chalk on a Board of Trade chalk board, indicating the prices of farm commodities including wheat, corn, oats, and rye. Various views of steam locomotives pulling trains throughout the rail network, including some 20th century trains near the end of the film, and some close-up views of wheels turning fast on moving railroad trains.
Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at Yalta Conference in Crimea, Russia.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Premier Joseph Stalin at Yalta Conference (Argonaut) in Crimea, Russia. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt lights a cigarette. Premier Joseph Stalin seated next to him. U.S. Admiral William Leahy stands behind Roosevelt. Prime Minister Churchill seated in uniform smoking a cigar. He takes off his hat. 'Big Three' seated on chairs in courtyard. They pose for photographs. They talk and laugh. Admiral William D Leahy stands in the background. Sir Andrew Cunningham, Sir Charles Portal, General George Marshall and other officers in the background.
Allied Harbor Defenses against maritime sabotage operations against Allied ships, United States.
Methods and machines used by Germans and Italians in maritime sabotage operations. One method used as sneak craft is the use of human torpedoes. German one man super human torpedo in view. It is lowered in water. Crew member seated in it. Italian human torpedoes SSB in view. It has two enormous warheads. It is lowered in water. Men in submerged torpedo. Dramatization depicts the operation of craft. Men loosen the warhead. Animated diagram illustrates Allied Harbor Defenses. Sneak craft detection by hydrophones, Radio direction finding stations, super sensitive radars, magnetic sensing, Anti-submarine nets and indicator loops. Men work at controls. (World War II period).
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