Activities of United States Army 173rd Airborne Infantry Brigade during the Vietnam War in Vietnam. Officer sets off red flare to mark helicopter landing zone. Officer signals helicopter UH-1D of U.S. Army with red crossing to landing. UH-1D lands. Wounded on litters and walking patients being put aboard the helicopter. Red cross unit personnel gets into the helicopter and closes door of the helicopter.
The Shenandoah Apple Festival in Winchester, Virginia. Miss Guri Lie, the daughter of United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie, is crowned the Queen of the twenty-fourth Shenandoah Apple Festival. U.S. Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall officiates at the coronation, which opens one of the nation's most colorful yearly pageants. Children of a school stand in lines during the festival celebration. The flag of the United States. Guri Lie walks through apple orchards with the children holding the train of her gown. A parade passes through the streets. People watch the parade. Various floats and girls on the floats. Guri Lie leads the parade seated on a float. The girls siting on the floats wave at people.
A mass Communist demonstration by indoctrinated Germans in Berlin, Germany. Communists resort to violence in France against Marshall Plan aid. In Tokyo, Japan Communists demonstrations crushed by the police. Communists resort to violence at Union Square in New York, United states. Valentin Gubitchev,a Soviet employee in United Nations, being deported, after being sentenced for obtaining secret documents from Judith Coplon.
YMS and SC units during mine sweeping activities in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia. Two flag buoys in water with two United States Navy YMS (Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper) underway at sea. Mines explode as a pillar of smoke and water rises up. Four YMS in column underway at sea as mines explode. A buoy towed in the foreground. Mines explode with YMS in the background. Mines continue to explode. Two YMS underway as mines explode in the background.
YMS and SC units during mine sweeping activities in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia. United States Navy YMS (Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper) underway at sea. Mines explode in the background and a pillar of smoke and water rises up. Two YMS in column underway at sea as mines explode. Flag buoy towed in the foreground. Mines explode with YMS in the background. SC pulls in flag buoy.
Events of Nazi crimes are related during the Nuremberg Trials held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. Chief prosecutor from the United States, Robert Houghwout Jackson, makes the opening statement of the prosecution. He presents Count 1 of the indictment a conspiracy to commit war crimes and crimes against peace and humanity. Defendants stand in their dock including Herman Goring, Rudolf Hess (or Heß), Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Karl Donitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach and Fritz Sauckel. View of the Adolf Hitler's autobiography, "Mein Kampf". Nazi flag flutters in Munich, Germany. Scenes of panic, riots, and political and economic unrest in the streets of post World War I Munich, Germany, during the 1920's and 1930's as Adolf Hitler and his associates rose to power. Large crowd gathered on the streets on the eve of Nazi party rally. A younger Adolf Hitler and aides pose at the stairs of a building. Adolf Hitler reviews his Brownshirt Sturmabteilung SA troops. Hermann Goering (Göring) seen briefly at front of a unit of marching Sturmabteilung, rendering Nazi salute. Hitler addresses the party. Joseph Goebbels shown in an office seated at a desk and talking on phone, and then speaking at an early Nazi rally. View of headlines of German Newspapers. Scenes of street riots and efforts by the Nazis aimed to gain the highest degree of control over the Germans by any means. Burning of books by Nazi leaders in a large bonfire. Exterior view of the Reichstag in Berlin.
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