German refugees at the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) boundary after World War II. A child refugee wheeled on a carriage. Few German women refugees waiting with their belongings at the USSR border. American and Russian officers and soldiers beside the gate at the border. A woman carrying her belongings on her back beside the gate. Women waiting with their belongings on small carts to cross the border. Soldiers talking beside the border gate. A truck carrying the refugees parked at the border. An American and a Russian soldier standing atop the truck counting the refugees. Officers and soldiers talking beside the border gate. 'Property of U.S. Army leased to Regierungsbezirk Kasser for essential civilian use' written on the back of the truck.
A message from United States Marine Corps First Lieutenant Tyrone Power (prewar Hollywood movie star actor) in the United States. Tyrone Power delivering a message. (Clip includes opening musical intro but no sound thereafter). U.S. Marines marching in a formation. A large crowd watching sailors in the background. A number of women corps in uniforms march in formation. Several buildings in the background. USMC honor guard marching. The sailors standing in a formation at a side. The Marines firing deck guns. A woman officer speaking into a microphone. U.S. National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland (Bethesda Naval Hospital). A wounded Marine being attended by a nurse. Nurses attending to the wounded lying on beds in a hospital ward. Two Marines beside deck guns. Explosions occurring at sea. Several Marines at a beachhead. The Marines attending to the wounded on the beach. View of Lt. Tyrone Power delivering the speech. (World War II period).
U.S. propaganda piece about threats by communists against various European countries. The Czechoslovak coup and demonstrations. Czech citizens moving on a street in Czechoslovakia during a strike forcing conservative elements to resign from the cabinet. Scenes of police brutality and beatings against strikers. Communists take over the police. Czech President Edvard Benes with conservative politicians in a government building. Huge crowd on a street. Police clashing with crowd. Czech Prime Minister Klement Gottwald with officials. President Edvard Benes, facing possible civil war or invasion by the Soviet Union, accepts a Communist cabinet. He is seen signing documents to that effect on February 25, 1948. Other officials beside President Benes during the signing. View of the first President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk's son, Jan Masaryk, who remained the Foreign Minister, and did not agree to the new government. Two days later Jan Masaryk is discovered dead. The body of Jan Masaryk in a coffin. Edvard Benes, who resigned in June 1948 after refusing to sign the communist constitution, is seen walking slowly outside the Parliament using a cane. A guard saluting Benes. View of the body of Edvard Benes, who died in September 1948, laying in a coffin. Mourning citizens offering flowers and cry. Officials bearing the coffin. Shift several years later to street strikes in East Germany in 1953. People during a strike and riot in Poland in 1956. Russian tanks moving on a street and Soviet soldiers are seen. Elevated view of panic and Polish citizens fleeing soldiers. October 1956: Student demonstrators on street in Budapest Hungary during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Soviet Russian red star is toppled by crowds from a building roof in a sign of defiance. Russian troops respond with tanks on the streets in Hungary. Crowd fights back. Russians retreat. Crowd overwhelms local police. Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary, ascends steps. Hungarian crowd on streets burn communist books and papers. Russian tanks invade Hungary to crush revolt. Tanks fire guns on Hungarian street. Imre Nagy's execution announced June 17, 1958.
NRA banner with Blue Eagle symbol, hoisted on building in New York City. A parade in New York City, United States. A large crowd marches on streets during a ten-hour parade hailing the NRA (National Recovery Administration), one of the New Deal programs of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the recovery of economy during the Great Depression. Men and women holding U.S. flags marching during the parade. Spectators watch the parade from sidewalks.
U.S. Marines in Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanon Crisis. United States Marine Corps ( USMC ) armored personnel carrier LVTP-5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked, Personnel) with its ramp down. U.S. Marines seated outside the verandah of a building. A Marine on guard at a dock gate checking a civilian. Other Marines standing beside watch them. A Marine standing beside the dock gate. A BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) mounted on a small platform beside the gate. A building in the background. Several people in front of the building. A group of Marines seated at a table in a building. A Muslim photographer standing at a camera on a tripod stand. The photographer takes pictures of the Marines. Few Marines and other men standing outside the building.
U.S. 1st Aviation Brigade III Corps in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A soldier sitting beside an M60 machine gun at the entrance door of a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter. A sling load of ammunition hooked on to the underside of the helicopter. A soldier beside a square open area on the base of the helicopter where 'Hook Stowage Strap' is written. Unusual camera point of view shot of hooked load as it descends toward ground. The helicopter in a low flight over Bien Hoa Air Base airfield where a load is placed. A few 1st Aviation Brigade soldiers on a field. The soldiers talking beside the helicopter. An army truck moves from the field. A soldier seated on a container on the airfield preparing it to be hooked. The container is hooked to the helicopter and the helicopter lifts. The helicopter in flight over fields and wooded regions.
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