American prisoners of war being interviewed at Japanese prison camp number 3, in Honshu, Japan after World War II. A U.S. officer interviews a prisoner who has been liberated from a Japanese prison camp. The prisoner says that his name is Benini. He says that he is from Pennsylvania, United States. The officer asks him whether he was in the Philippines and when was he captured. He states he was captured before the Bataan Death March. He narrates his experiences of his prison camp, noting that a building in the prison camp was called the white house because it was large and painted white.
Scenes from the Battle of the Bulge, and siege of Bastogne during World War Two. Large numbers of United States Army Air Force C-47B Skytrain transport planes drop parachute supplies for troops at Bastogne, Belgium. Ruins of the town of Bastogne. A street littered with dead bodies and rubble. U.S. troops advancing into the town of Haguenau on the border with Germany, and further into Germany, itself. American MPs (Military Police) search civilians and check identity cards and check U.S. soldiers in military vehicles to guard against Germans in American uniforms. U.S. M4 Sherman tanks move ahead on the front. Artillery being fired. Troops engage in street fighting. Group of Alsatian women rejoice as they are being released from a prison, where they had been held by Germans. U.S. troops advance through a wooded area. U.S. Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes speaks about the sacrifices of U.S. troops who are fighting and dying for their country and appeals to Americans, safe at home, to work for the war effort.
United States sailors march at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis , Maryland. A sketch of Missouri state and a ship. A young boy looks out at sea from a pier. The sailors march along a field. A picture of cadet Leigh C Palmer , Class '96. A battleship underway.
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion is feted in New York,United States in celebrations on the founding of the new State of Israel. A military parade along 5th Arenue. Crowds line the sidewalks. Israeli Prime Minister Gurion stands in an open car. The crowd cheers for him.
Soviet Commissar for foreign affairs Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov on a secret visit to the United States. Molotov meets U.S. officials at the Washington D.C. airport. He shakes hands with the officials and boards a Soviet bomber. The aircraft takes off. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov sign a lend-lease agreement.
United States Navy Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz addressing the Navy personnel at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, U.S. Admiral Nimitz standing at a podium. He delivers a speech to officers and men of the Navy and civilian workers at the Navy Yard. Trees in the background. The Navy personnel applaud. He talks about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He states the history of the ships that were bombed during the Pearl Harbor attack. He talks about the civilian defense at the Pearl Harbor during the attack. The bombing of the USS Arizona and other battleships. Various ships like the USS Pennsylvania, California and Tennessee were attacked.
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