Assembly and transportation of tanks in the United States during World War II. A tank manufacturing plant. Tanks drives down a hilly terrain. Tanks roll off an assembly line. The tanks are assembled as parts are carried via an overhead crane. Equipment of steel, rubber, tin and aluminum to be used in assembly of the tanks. Men work on the tanks. The tanks are transported via trains and ships. Ships at sea. The tanks advance in a battle field.
Surrender of the German Army in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Flags of the Allies are unfurled at the Tempelhof airfield. Lined up cars at the airfield. An English airplane arrives with Royal Air Force Marshal Arthur William Tedder (Lord Tedder) and U.S. Army General Carl Andrew Spaatz. Lord Tedder and General Spaatz shake hands with Soviet officers including Soviet Marshal Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky. Field Marshal Keitel and staff arrive. A band plays as Soviet troops march. German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel enters a car and reads surrender papers. Lord Tedder and other officials get into cars. The cars are driven away from the airfield.
Surrender of the German Army in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Interior of headquarters where surrender papers are signed. German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Stumpf and Friedensburg sign surrender documents followed by Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov; Royal Air Force Marshal Arthur William Tedder and U.S. Army General Carl Andrew Spaatz. Soviet deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrey Vyshinsky and French Army General DeLattre de Tassigny present.
Home-front activities in New Jersey, United States. A sign: 'Historical Museum'. A couple looks at the bed in which George Washington slept. A statue of a man on a horse. A soldier looks at a memorial stone. A sign on the memorial reads 'Washington and U.S. Army'. The soldier looks at a lake. A woman knits. Signs on shops and stores. Offices of lawyers seen. Old men gather in a village square. Men play a game.
A workers rebellion in East Berlin, Germany. A crowd demonstrates in the Soviet Zone of occupation. Smoke rising around a building from fires set by the demonstrators. A police car moves in the crowd. U.S. High Commissioner to Germany Dr James B. Conant (formerly President of Harvard University) walks near a railing by the boundary line between the American and Soviet Sectors of occupation. He looks through binoculars. East German policemen and civilians stand around. Deserted areas within the Soviet Zone. A deserted rail yard. East German police at a Soviet boundary checkpoint. A Soviet soldier checks passes of people entering East Berlin.
Communist Chinese troops in Kaesong, Korea during the Korean War. Communist Chinese troops carrying weapons march. They try to hide weapons in bushes. A Chinese officer threatens to pull a revolver. The officer makes threatening gestures. United States Navy Admiral Charles T Joy and staff leave a conference hut as U.S. Army General Matthew Bunker Ridgway give orders to suspend truce talks. Interior of the hut shows empty conference tables.
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