A radio tower at the White Sands Proving Ground (White Sands Missile Range), a rocket range in New Mexico,United States. An aerial view of the facility and its surroundings. The sign on the entrance reads ' U.S. Naval Unit White Sands Proving Ground '. Truck and jeep come out of the facility's entrance.
A United States M-5 Stuart light tank burns on the side of a road in Osterode, Germany. A hole in the armor of the wrecked tank. U.S. Army soldiers stand near the smoking tank. A German 88mm gun is pushed to side of the road. Refugees move back into the city with their belongings. (World War II period).
Shows the fall and destruction of Warsaw, Poland during German invasion of Poland in World War 2. Polish General Tadeusz Kutrzeba, deputy commander of Warsaw, walks to a bus in which German officers await to negotiate a cease fire. He is seen inside, through the window of the bus as they discuss disposition of forces using a map. Nazi occupation of the city and bombed ruins. Examples of Polish resistance in the city, such as man on his knees in a tunnel, firearms, printing pamphlets, man setting type and running press, distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets, German poster announcing executions in Lublin, Poland. Exact Warsaw locations unknown, but some possibly within the Warsaw Ghetto. Scene shows men pasting anti-Nazi posters, doing graffiti on wall, taking still photographs. Wrecked bridges and trains.
From a U.S. Army training film titled "Hygiene For Women - Protecting Health." Shows two women cleaning a convertible car. Men and women playing a game of lawn tennis in mixed doubles. Various scenes of women working in offices, eating ice cream at shopping malls. Men and women dancing in 1960s fashions, including doing the twist dance, drinking alcohol, and smoking cigarettes in a nightclub. Woman suffers hangover as a result of excessive drinking. She wakes up with a headache and is seen looking uncomfortable getting out of bed and at work that day. Narrator says that too much alcohol too often can lead to addiction. Shows image of woman writhing in bed and screaming out during detoxification from alcohol addiction.
Aerial views of U.S. 425th Night Fighter Squadron P-61s flying in formation at a high altitude above Colomiers, France. They display D-day invasion stripes. Glimpse of ground crewman working near oxygen cylinders. More views of P-61s in formation. View from one P-61, of another in flight behind it. View from a P-61 joining up on left wing of another (number42-5550), which then breaks off to the right. View from inside a landing P-61, showing extended landing gear.
U.S. Army soldiers come in from breakfast with lunch kits in their hands in Colomiers, France, during World War 2. P-61 aircraft (Black Widow) can be seen parked in background. Farmer plows a field with pair of oxen. French workers gather stones to repair a runway.
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