Nikita Khrushchev seen speaking before the 20th Party Congress in February 1956, where he denounced his legendary predecessor Joseph Stalin. Glimpses of the Yalta Conference in Ukraine during World War II. Joseph Stalin talks with U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Khrushchev and other Communist leaders of various nations arrive at a meeting. The leaders wave hands as troops march during a communist parade.
United States soldiers advance during Philippine invasion of Lingayen, Luzon during World War II. A soldier sitting at a camp watch with binoculars. A U.S. Army Landing Ship Tank (LST) stationed near a beach with its doors open. Soldiers in DUKWs slide down its ramp into sea water and move towards the beach. A soldier talks to enlisted natives. A tank bulldozer drives out of the LST and pushes sand to make a ramp. DUKWs driven on sandy beaches and other military equipment is offloaded from LSTs. A convoy of DUKWs driven on the sandy beach.
United States Army soldiers advance during Philippine invasion of Lingayen, Luzon, during World War II. A soldier sitting at a camp watch with binoculars. A U.S. Army Landing Ship Tanks (LST) is stationed near a beach with its cargo doors open. A soldier fills sandbag. A tank bulldozer pushes beach sand to make ramps up to the cargo doors of LST to offload other military equipment. 6X6 Army trucks loaded with soldiers drive out of LST doors on the ramps. Filipino men offload material and supplies from LST and load them onto the army trucks.
U.S. Sailors and Marines participate in traditional nautical ceremonies marking the crossing of the Equator, aboard the Landing Ship Tank, LST 554, during World War 2. This involves "Shellbacks" (sailors who have already crossed the equator) intiating "pollywogs" (sailors who have never crossed the Equator) into the Kingdom of Neptune. "Pollywogs" are seen assembled below, and then brought up on deck where they are subject to various forms of horseplay and embarrassment (all in good fun). Some are seen in silly lookout poses. One is seen nearly atop the ship's mast. One, naked, pours water over the head of another. Another is made to dance with a mop. Then two are made to dance together, after which they must mop the deck. Finally, the Pollywogs have their heads shaved, and dunked in water, after which they run a gauntlet of shellbacks who hit them hard (with soft paddles). Initiates being sprayed with water on deck.
United States soldiers during the raid on Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Soldiers wade through knee high water carrying their rifles and baggages. Landing Vehicles and war ships in the sea. Soldiers walk towards the beach. Dead body of a U.S. Marine lying at a muddy beach of Iwo Jima. The rifle and bag of the soldier near him. Two photographers walk on the beach and jungle roads.
United States soldiers during the assault on Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. U.S. Marines walk with an injured soldier on a stretcher. Two marines support injured soldiers to walk over a ridge. An injured soldier smokes a cigarette while a medic applies bandage to his back.
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