German prisoners of war in Loriol, France under American guard. Two French female collaborators in a United States military jeep lead the procession of German prisoners in Loriol, France in World War 2. U.S. Military police herd the POW group along a small mountain road.
Operation Carpetbagger by the 492nd Bomb Group of United States 8th Air Force during World War II. View of automobile traffic on a London Street. London "Carpetbaggers" personnel working at the London headquarters of United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force. At Harrington field men load supplies on trucks for French resistance forces (Maquis, FFI). Men workout the daily packing schedule. Men pack guns, grenades, machine guns and other ammunitions. Special H containers and C containers for loading 303 ammunition. Boots, socks being packed. Gasoline Jerry cans being put in containers. Men place guns in containers. Instructions in French also placed with the supplies for the French resistance forces. Men pack explosives and radio sets. Medical supplies put in baskets. Harness and parachute shops in Holmes where men attach parachutes to containers. Packages being transported to airfield for dropping to the targets. A man on a telephone informs about the daily supplies to Special Forces headquarters in London. S-2, an intelligence officer forwards the list received from London. A man plots the target area on a map. In the weather room detailed map of the area is being prepared. Officers make a selection of the targets. S-2 informs the headquarters about the route of the planes. Supplies being loaded onto United States B-24 aircraft specially configured to carry and drop the containers using the bomb rack system in the aircraft. Flight crew is briefed before the operation. Chief Navigator talks about the course to be taken by the planes and the targets to be hit. Pilots work on a flight plan. Aircraft take off. An officer reports about the take off of the aircraft to the 8th Air Force headquarters.
Liberation of Stalag 7A, German camp for Allied POWs, in Moosburg, Germany during World War II. Sign at front gate reads: "Kriegsgefangenen, Mannschafts Stammlager VIIA" A U.S. M4 Sherman tank sits at the front gate with several liberated prisoners around it. American flag flies from tall pole near camp entrance. Many liberated prisoners can be seen walking about in the central area of the camp. What appears to be a French tricolor flag flies over one of the barracks buildings.
Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Editors of American newspapers at the concentration camp. They take notes. Dead bodies piled up at the camp. Emaciated prisoners in their cots. U.S. Brigadier General Frank A. Allen conducts a tour of the camp and enters a camp hospital. (World War II period).
Role of United States Coast Guard in natural disaster response. Clip focuses on response in 1927 Mississippi River flood. Opens with scenes of a destructive hurricane hitting Florida coast in United States and strong winds blowing. Coast Guard provides relief to the victims. Wreckage from hurricane. Brief scene from San Francisco earthquake. Then scenes from the flood of the Mississippi River in 1927. Swollen Mississippi River flowing at great speed. Coast Guard uses boats to rescue people from the flooded area. People gathered atop the levees awaiting help. Coast Guard lifting citizens from atop levees, into boats. A house floating in the flood waters. A boat filled with livestock as Coast Guard rescues them. A man being rescued from top of a floating house. Film produced in 1935.
A United Nations delegation in Berlin, Germany. A motorcade arrives and 14 advisors of American United Nations delegation step from their cars. They visit Berlin's Olympic Stadium. Delegates discuss the Berlin Airlift with an American officer. The delegates visit the Soviet World War II monument and a man takes pictures. A woman pushes a trolley with boxes loaded on it. Delegates leave in cars with Brandenburg Gate in the background. Cars parked as a delegate films a wrecked building using what appears to be a 16mm motion picture film camera.
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