A documentary depicting Algerians celebrating their independence and developments in Algeria thereafter. Vehicles carrying jubilant people drive past on the roads in different parts of the country. A helicopter in flight. A crowd gathers to watch as dignitaries and deputies arrive to attend the first session of the National Assembly. The session in progress. Ferhat Abbas is elected as the President of the National Assembly. Mohamed Ahmed Ben Bella casts his vote along with other members for the election of the prime minister. The crowd cheers as Mohamed Ahmed Ben Bella is declared the newly appointed Algerian Prime Minister. The Algerian flags are waved. A military procession in the streets. Soldiers parade as the people watch. Helicopters in flight. United States Air Force aircraft fly to aid with medical supplies. Dignitaries get off aircraft and are greeted by Algerian dignitaries. Men carry boxes. Volunteer medical personnel disembark aircraft. The Kabili Mountains (or Kabylie or Kabylia). Men work in fields and water crops. Algerian boys in Constantine for a forestry course. People work in a tent area. A man cooks bread. Sacks of food supplies sent in by other countries. Trees are felled. The United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Algerian Prime Minister addresses the UN General Assembly. Ben Bella in Washington DC. U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Ben Bella review honor guards. President Kennedy congratulates Algerian people on attaining independence. Heavy crowd on the streets of Algeria.
The liberated Santo Tomas concentration camp in Manila, Philippine Islands during World War II. Soldiers and Filipino civilians standing in the front yard of the Main Building of the University of Santo Tomas, used during the war as a concentration camp by the Japanese forces for Filipino prisoners and prisoners from the United States, United Kingdom and other Allied countries. Heavy columns of smoke rise from a building where an explosion has occurred. People in the yard are mainly curious. American soldiers drive into the yard in jeeps. A squad of American soldiers marches across the yard. Soldiers and civilians carry wounded on litters. Some damage seen on exterior of the University of Santo Tomas Main Building, with holes in the damaged building. Several U.S. soldiers on guard duty are silhouetted against the light sky. A dead and bloated Japanese soldier in a wrecked car. U.S. soldiers running take cover near a truck. Several mutilated and burned dead bodies in various stages of decomposition on the street.
Establishment of a beachhead in Normandy, France during D-Day, the Invasion of Normandy. Mix of some dramatic acting portrayals but mostly actual footage. Barrage balloons over a U.S. ship underway at sea. A sailor puts on his helmet on the deck of a ship. The setting sun in the background. A clock shows 12 midnight. Navy officers and soldiers look at the clock anxiously. The clock shows twenty minutes to six in the morning. Explosions as guns are fired from ships. A man talks over a phone. The rising sun. Barges and landing crafts loaded with soldiers in water. Guns are fired at a coast. Smoke comes out of the stacks of a ship. Aircraft in flight to provide air cover. Rockets are fired at the shore. Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel ( LCVPs ) reach the beach and drop their ramps. Soldiers unload from the crafts. Aircraft provide cover. More landing crafts approach. LCIs ( Landing Craft Infantry) loaded with soldiers reach the beach. Troops going ashore on beaches of Normandy under fire from German shore positions. Views from landing crafts in water near shore as troops run up beaches. Landing crafts return to ships. Debris and dead floating in water near beach. A ragged U.S. flag flutters on a U.S. Coast Guard rescue cutter. The Coast Guards take care of the wounded and the dead. A military officer types on a typewriter while smoking a pipe in the United States. Crates of medical supplies for the soldiers. U.S. Medical Field Units reach the shore. Wounded are carried to hospital ships and transports. Wounded are carried on stretchers. Soldiers come down a net on the side of a ship. Soldiers in a barge. Soldiers wade ashore. A wounded man is carried on a stretcher. Men wade ashore. (World War II period).
A film titled 'Campaign in Sicily' on the campaign of Allied forces to invade Sicily, Italy during World War II (Operation Husky). Animated map shows the target area of the Allies. British Army General Alan Gordon Cunningham, U.S. Army General Dwight David Eisenhower, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur William Tedder , British Army Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, U.S. Army General George Smith Patton and United States Army Air Forces Lieutenant General James Harold Doolittle plan and discuss during the campaign. Lt. Gen. Doolittle and some officers stand near an airplane. U.S. airplanes bomb Pantelleria. Aircraft in formation flight over the target area and drop bombs. British infantry goes ashore. Masses of Italian prisoners of war march along. Rubbled buildings in the area. Axis airplanes bomb an Allied supply ship off an island. British engineers repair an airstrip on the island. Allied bombers strike target areas in Italy. Troops transports assemble in a harbor at Alexandria, Egypt. Ships being loaded at the harbor. Generals Eisenhower and Patton aboard USS Monrovia. Ships underway at sea. U.S. Navy sailors receive a briefing over a large table map conducted by U.S. Navy officers. Animated map shows target areas and Allied strategies and invaded areas. Allied troops, following a night naval bombardment, land in Sicily using amphibious vehicles and floating causeways. Landing ships are unloaded. Steel mash mats are laid down. Bulldozers are taken ashore. General Patton and 3rd Infantry Division units land. Axis airplanes attack the convoy. They drop bombs over target areas. An ammunition ship is exploded. Heavy columns of smoke rise as ships and landing craft explode. Soldiers advance along a town. Artillery and tanks advance along. Wrecked airplanes and equipment in the area. Dead bodies of soldiers on the ground. A medic treats a wounded. Aircraft in flight overhead. Officers in the balcony of a building. People gather outside the building. Animated map invasion by Allied forces. Prisoners of war are marched along a field. Soldiers advance.
The Red Cross club mobile unit and United States 24th Division in Korea. A Red Cross truck outside a building. U.S. Army soldiers (white and African American) come out of the building. They help Red Cross women, Phyllis Alspach and Erma Taylor, with props in a truck. The truck drives along a way. Mountains in the foreground.
The Red Cross club mobile unit and United States 24th Division in Korea. A Red cross truck drives around a Korean village. Houses along the sides of the street. A man with a bullock cart loaded with hay stack. Children play on a street. Other vehicles pass on the street along with the Red Cross truck. Phyllis Alspach and Erma Taylor with props. They enter a quonset hut with the props, as an African American soldiers holds open the door for them.
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