At the end of World War 2, in Europe, citizens of Berlin (mostly women) cooperate in a bucket brigade to clear rubble from their walks and streets. Lacking any machinery, they use shovels to fill buckets and pass them up the hill of debris at the base of bombed out buildings. A train passes below damaged roadway where camera is located. Camera pans to the cleanup site, where dozens of people are occupied. Closup of a man using a mason's hammer to break concrete slabs so they can be moved by hand. Women inside the walls of a demolished building, where they empty the buckets and throw the concrete slabs.
A training film depicts the segregation of vital systems of a ship to prevent it from damage in the United States. Animation depicts a naval ship with different compartments. Different vital systems for the ship's operation. Demonstration of material conditions of readiness system Segregation. A digram represents first Firemain system that is the Loop system used on larger navy ships and another diagram represents Single Line system used on small navy ships. Eight separate pumps on the ship. Valves on the ship. Seven valves are XRAY (X) . Four YOKE (Y) valves on the ship. Two ZEBRA (Z) valves secured on the ship to divide the loops in different systems. In Single Line a ZEBRA valve segregate the fire system in two independent systems.
Investigation of U.S. Senator from Wisconsin Joseph Raymond McCarthy in New York. Investigators seated in a sub committee meeting for McCarthy investigation probing alleged spy activities at Fort Monmouth. (Subcommittee investigating "Army Signal Corps Subversion and Espionage.") McCarthy speaks into a microphone and replies to former U.S. President Harry S. Truman's attack on McCarthyism. He speaks that communism will be a political issue. McCarthy says, "practically every issue we face today, from high taxes to the shameful mess in Korea, is inextricably interwoven with the Communist issue."
A documentary television program depicts the role of U.S. soldiers in the Italian Campaign during World War II. U.S. troops in a jeep drive on a road. Wrecked vehicles on side of the road. French soldiers carry a flag and march. They stand in formation. French troops with all equipment advance towards the 6th Core Front. French troops advance and climb high mountains. A soldier carves turkey and cooks food for celebration on Christmas day. A jeep loaded with cooked food drives towards mountains. Mules carry supplies and move up on a mountain. The soldiers carry turkey and other food stuff on the mountain.
The Allies mount an amphibious landing in North Africa during World War 2. U.S. ships underway at sea. German forces attack the ships. View of guns firing and tracers visible in night sky during battle. Scene changes to day time and a group of German soldier and officer prisoners of war (POW), many pilots from German Luftwaffe, carry their luggage and board a ship en route to a prison camp. They climb up the ship's ladder at port. Captured shells on the ground. Destroyed German armored vehicle. A knocked out German Panzer IV tank is examined by U.S. soldiers.
British 8th Army takes Tripoli as Nazis flee Libya during World War II. A land mark. British Royal Air Force aircraft bomb Tripoli. The aircraft drop bombs and smoke rises due to explosions on a field. Commander of British 8th Army General Bernard Montgomery hoists the British flag over a captured German airfield. British ground crew near a captured German aircraft. A crew member paints the tail of the aircraft and covers German insignia with Royal Air Force insignia. A pilot exits a jeep and climbs into the cockpit of the re-purposed German plane, and takes off. British Army sappers locate, disarm, and collect German mines in Libya. Metal detectors are used by soldiers to locate a German Teller mine. Soldiers take out the Teller mine. View of hundreds of captured German land mines. A sign reads 'Safe Lane'. Trucks drive past on a road. The Medjerda River in Tunisian. British 1st Army soldiers near artillery. Aircraft in flight. A soldier signals and fires artillery. Smoke rises in the foreground. Dive bombers in flight. The bomber aircraft drop bomb. Hills in Tunisian. German soldiers fire guns. Soldiers on U.S. made tanks and trucks drive on a dirt road. A road side marker reads "Mateur" The aircraft in flight. British Douglas Boston bombers flying overhead.
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