A film on the liberation of the French villages by the American troops during World War II. View of regions in Cherboug, in France. American troops on tanks moving on a path in Cherbourg in France. American soldiers moving on a road. A few American soldiers in a dugout. Bombs being dropped on German positions on Cherbourg. A map depicts the regions struck in Cherbourg. Smoke rising from explosions. A tank moving on a path. The off-duty American soldiers relaxing in front of an inn. 'The Pop Inn' written on the board. Land attack combined with air attack. A U.S. bomber in flight. The aircraft dropping bombs on the German positions.
Elements of the Red Army conduct field maneuvers in the Soviet Union. A soviet soldier prepares a message and fastens it to the collar on a dog. He then sends the dog to deliver it. Camera follows the dog as it crosses a wide field and then enters shrubbery where another Soviet soldier is concealed. He opens the message which the camera shows, containing tactical information. View of soldier leaving the concealed location and proceeding to an entrenched local headquarters and communications center where soldiers study a map and one makes a telephone call. View of detailed local animated tactical map showing proposed paths of attack upon enemy areas. Soldiers moving out of the entrenched position. Another using a pair of binoculars from a concealed position and one communicating on a field telephone. A soldier telegrapher transmitting a message by code from a field communications center. (World War II period).
Scenes in Buna, New Guinea, during the battle of Buna-Gona,fought by American and Australian forces in World War 2. An American General and Australian General, Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander of the Allied Land Forces in the Southwest Pacific, conducting an inspection in the jungle. General Blamey and U.S. Army Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger with another Australian commander. General blamey beside a jeep in a marshy area of the jungle. Trees in the marshy area in the background. The men are talking. Other officers in the background. The Generals driving in a jeep on a jungle trail. American soldiers throwing grenades and concealing themselves among the trees. Several dead Japanese in a trench. A catholic chaplain conducting services in the jungle. The soldiers and officers gathered in front of the chaplain. General Blamey and General Eichelberger walking on a trail in the jungle. Other men following the Generals. Inside captured Japanese fortifications, General Blamey inspects a Japanese Taisho heavy machine gun. General Eichelberger joins him. They also inspect a long barreled Japanese artillery piece.
The children in China. Children seated at a table eating from bowls using chopsticks. A girl feeding a small girl from a bowl with chopsticks. Children drinking from bowls. A girl plaiting a small girl's hair. The girls smiling. Children playing on a slide. A group of girls holding hands and playing in a park. A few girls sewing on a cloth. Two small boys seated at a table. One of them drawing on a paper.
Workers at salt mines in Tze-Kung, China. Natural gas from the wells is used for evaporation process. The workers move carrying wrought iron basins. Liquid poured into the wrought iron basins. The liquid in the wrought iron basins boiled during reduction process. Soy bean juice is added to remove impurities. The scum is skimmed off and evaporated to form salt. A map showing China. Salt is poured over the map. Horses carrying baggages moving on a road. A hand cart loaded with sacks is pushed by men on a street. Several men moving about on the road. Boats anchored at the bank of a water body. A number of people on the bank. Aerial views of the boats on the bank.
A documentary titled 'Persimmon Harvest' in Chihli province in China. A few men outside a building with baggages. The men load the baggages on to a donkey. Persimmon orchards in Chihli province. A few men and children beside the trees in an orchard. The trees in the orchard on which seedlings of 'Black Date' or wild persimmon (Diospyros lotus) are used as stalks upon which the commercial varieties are worked. A man holds a fruiting branch of wild persimmon in his left hand and the fruit of a commercial variety in his right hand. A man beside a tree bark which shows the union of wild persimmon and cultivated one. Rows of trees in the orchard. Branches of trees bearing fruits. A man pointing to a girdled or a ring-barked tree which induces fruitfulness.
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