At Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii,vehicles and U.S. Air Force personnel surround the open tail of a Military Air Transport Service C-97 aircraft, carrying French troops en route home from Indochina. Scene change shows the French troops wearing flower leis, being treated to refreshments by Red Cross volunteers, in a hangar at the base. A U.S. Air Force officer greets some of the French troops. Change of scene shows group of Americans greeting French troops as they deplane though rear doors of a C-97 airplane. Greeters place leis around their necks and hula dancers entertain them as they walk across the ramp to waiting Red Cross buses. One French soldier dances a few steps with the hula dancers, on his way. Their bus pulls away.
Red Cross volunteers provide refreshments to French troops stopping at Hickam Air Force Base,Territory of Hawaii, on their way home to France, from Indochina. Women volunteers smiling and offering sweets to the French soldiers. Group of women volunteers in traditional Hawaiian costumes of grass skirts and flower Leis. stand in front of Red Cross buses at hangar entrance, and wave. Women volunteers in Red Cross uniforms are seen in front of the Air Evac canteen in the hangar. A U.S. Military Air Transport Service C-97 aircraft, tail number 48-420, taxiis in on wet pavement. As French troops deplane, some volunteers place flower leis on the necks of the arriving French soldiers. The volunteers in grass skirts dance the hula for them. The dancers entice a French officer to dance with them. The French soldiers board a waiting bus. One French officer limps an uses a cane to walk. The bus drives away, and scene shifts to wounded French soldiers on litters being carried from the aircraft. They also receive leis from women greeters. Americans gather around the open rear doors of the aircraft as troops exit. A group are getting refreshments from volunteers at the hangar canteen.
A convoy of Allied troop transport ships en route to a beachhead in France, during World War 2. The leading ship displays the number 321 on its bow. Allied troops play with a pet monkey on the deck of a ship. Colonel Kirke B Lawton smokes a cigar as he sits on the bridge of a British transport ship with British Naval officers. The waterfront is crowded with Allied vessels. Many barrage balloons fly overhead. Landing ships at the beachhead. Two U.S. landing craft are seen, numbered 512 and 72. Large Landing ships discharge their cargoes of trucks, tanks, and military vehicles of all sorts. An L-4 airplane being carried on a 2 and a half ton truck. U.S. and British tanks and troops moving inland.
U.S. Army troops move on a road with tanks and artillery during World War II. German prisoners are run-marched double time along the road and then across a field. U.S. Army soldiers stand guard with rifles in hands. German POW gathered at prisoner of war enclosure. An American soldier distributes food to the prisoners.
Shellback initiation ceremony aboard the ice-breaker USS Edisto (AG-89), under the command of Commander E. C. Folger, USN. The ship was headed for Antartica, as part of the U.S. Navy Antarctic Development Project, a continuation of the 1947 "Operation High Jump." Commander Nutt and Mr Grace serve as officers of the deck during King Neptune's shell back ceremony. Mr Grace uses two toilet rolls as binoculars and looks through them. The crew search for Davy Jones. Mr Boffa , a civilian dressed in a costume, also looks for Davy Jones. Mr. Malcolm Davis of the Washington Zoo is seen. A pollywog officer on the deck. He reports to the officer that they could not find Davy Jones.
The freighter SS Transcolorado (chartered by the U.S. Military Sealift Command, as a civilian cargo ship, designated T-AK-2005) arrives in Guam carrying at-risk South Vietnamese refugees who will be temporarily housed there under Operation New Life. (Later, most will be transferred to the United States under Operation New Arrivals.) Views of the refugees, including many children, on the deck of the ship. U.S. Marines carry a sick, or injured person from the ship on a litter. Families descend gangplank to the pier, where they are guided to hastily set up reception center. Grocery carts are employed to assist refugees carrying belongings. Local people line up to distribute items, including flip flops, to the refugees, as they pass along the pier. A merchant marine sailor assists one of the families. A woman dressed in white intercepts a Vietnamese woman carrying a small child, and directs her to a tent set up as a "Baby Center." (Many tents are seen in the background.) Inside the Baby Center, reception workers prepare food and items needed for baby care. Several Vietnamese refugee women sit on a bench in the tent, with their babies.
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