Segment of film about U.S. Information Agency (USIA) use of motion pictures abroad. A man threads film into a motion picture projector. Glimpses of audiences in several different countries as they watch movie showing on screen. A film introductory slate is shown reading:" U.S.I.S. United States Information Service, presents." Closeups of faces of two bearded men watching a film. Film slate reads: "United Nations Report on Prisoners of War." The film shows Chinese prisoners of war, marching to a United Nations POW camp during the Korean War. Views large tents erected in camp, with "PW" written on one tent. Another view shows a large sign laid out on the ground reading: "POW Camp-3." Chinese POWs march through entrance of a camp and are guided by American soldiers standing beside a military ambulance.
Soldiers, with the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy on their intercontinental journey across America, offload a Holt tractor from the back of a truck, near North Platte, Nebraska. Other trucks of the convoy are passing in the background. Soldiers help straighten the path of a truck being pulled from the mud. The Holt tractor maneuvers and uses a chain to pull a truck out of the mud. The truck is decorated with American flags. Soldiers hook up a chain to another truck stuck in mud. It also displays several American flags. The Holt tractor struggles in attempts to free the truck, but is later seen pulling it successfully along the muddy road. The Holt tractor pulls several trucks, chained in a line behind it, on the muddy road. The last of the trucks displays an Army Corps of Engineers logo and a sign reading,"We need 6000 men. Be one."
Smoke rises from U.S. Army artillery shells striking on a hill in the Italian Campaign of World War 2. . Several knocked out American Sherman tanks from C Company, 760th Tank Battalion Santa Maria are shown. One leans off the dirt road partway into a ditch. Closeup of tread on a damaged Sherman tank. U.S. soldiers seen in a Sherman tank parked behind a damaged one that has a large hole in it from gunfire. An American soldier places his hand in the hole. Brief view of an Italian Semovente da 75/18 self-propelled gun. Glimpse of what appears to be a damaged Italian 37mm antitank gun.
U.S. Army soldiers inquire Russian civilians near a wrecked M24 Chaffee light tank of the U.S. 13th Armored Division at Ellerstrabe in Hilden,Germany. The soldiers interview a Russian eyewitness. (World War II period).
United States soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division raise a large U.S. flag to cover a German Swastika emblem on top of the Tribune at Zeppelinfeld in Nurnberg,Germany, near end of World War 2 in Europe. Commander of the U.S. 7th Army Lieutenant General Alexander M Patch, Major General John W O'Daniel and other officers review the troops from the speaker's platform of the Nuremberg Zeppelin Field. At a ceremony General Patch awards Congressional Medal of Honor to Lieutenant Colonel Keith Ware, Lieutenant John J. Tominac,Sergeant Russell E Dunham,Sergeant Lucian Adams and Private Wilburn K. Ross.
American Film and Theater Actor, Charles Coburn at desk in an office in United States. He puts a coin in a piggy bank and shows a large replica of American Hundred Dollars Bond. He urges people to buy U.S. Savings Bond on behalf of the U.S. Treasury Department.
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