Treatment to wounded Germans in Avranches, France. Wounded Germans receive blood plasma. German and American medical units work along side and treat the wounded. Wounded people are carried to an ambulance. Trees seen in the background. German hospital corpsmen stand around the ambulance. A German Major stands outside a building. German and American corpsmen stand and talk about World War II. Vehicles parked in the background. Interior of a hospital. Wounded men receive first aid from the medical unit.
Leon Trotsky, appointed Commissar of War by Lenin, is seen presenting colors to a new unit of Red Guards, during a ceremony in World War 1 and near the time of the Russian Revolution. Trotsky presents the colors and kisses the unit commander. He then salutes the formation of guards.
' United Nations forces consolidate below the 38th Parallel' about the UN forces and their position during the Korean War. An animated map of Korea shows the position of United Nations forces along the 38th parallel. The evacuation activities from the Hungnam beach to Pusan and Pohang. Chinese Red Army attack on Seoul on January 1st ,1951.
Animated map showing American and British paratroops being dropped in Holland toward Eindhoven, Nijmegen, and Arnhem, and British ground forces advancing past Antwerp, during World War 2. British paratroopers seen inside C-47 (Dakota) aircraft as they head for Arnhem, on the Rhine (Rhein) River. Their parachutes fill the sky as they jump from their aircraft. They assemble on the ground, as one of the transport aircraft is seen diving and crashing in the background.The British paratroops move through outskirts of town. Scene shifts to U.S. airborne units landing at Eindhoven, in gliders. One of the gliders flips over on landing. American airborne units joining up with the advancing British ground troops. Views of the undamaged bridge at Nijmegen. The British forces encounter fierce German resistance that prevents their joining with their airborne troops at Arnhem.British troops dug in and firing mortars and small arms at Arnhem. Allied aircraft airdropping supplies to the dug in forces. A supply airplane shot down and crashing. British wounded soldiers being carried on stretchers.
Units of U.S. 23rd Company, 3rd Army meet units of 2nd French Armored Division on a road near Versailles in Le Perray, France. Two officers talk. Soldiers on an armored vehicle. Army vehicles pass along the road. (World War II period).
Towing of Royal Navy Phoenix units (Mulberry Harbor) across English Channel for D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. British Corvette underway. Phoenix unit being towed by tugboat. LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry) pass in the background.
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