'International Year of the Woman' delegates walking along sidewalk. They stop to view signs in shop window showing United Nations flag and start walking again. Close view of United Nations flag on signs in a shop in Mexico City.
Alsos operation in Germany. Brandenburg gate in Berlin soon after the end of World War 2. Soviet Russian motorized unit passes on road. Views of Berlin main areas as seen from a moving vehicle. Ruins of bombing seen in city and crowd lined up on roadside. Citizens clearing rubble of buildings. American unit passes through Brandenburg gate near citizens in a black market area. Troops and crowd gathered outside a building. American officers walk out of a building at conclusion of the Alsos mission.
Opening scene shows an honor guard of Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) soldiers lined up in formation in front of the Beirut airport terminal building. As an officer steps away from them, the troops render salutes while right-shouldering arms. The officer walks toward several civilians and an American officer who salutes. Next, a U.S. Major General greets Lebanese army officers. The LAF soldiers march away shouldering their rifles. Several U.S. soldiers are seen boarding a U.S. Air Force C-130 transport aircraft by way of a side door and drop-down stairs. One of them carries a large box. A United Nations DC-3 aircraft is seen taxiing out rapidly for takeoff. It displays the letters "U.N.R.W.A." on its rear fuselage and the logo of The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East on its tail.
British European Airways flight 609 airplane crash near Munich kills champions of Manchester United Soccer team. Wrecked aircraft of the Munich Air Disaster is seen off the runway at Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany. Men standing near the wrecked plane. View of a news stand in England, United Kingdom, where British people are buying newspapers with news of the aircraft crash. Photograph of the players of the football team. Twisted wreckage of the plane seen covered in snow. A nearby home partially wrecked in he crash. Two officials walking around the crash site.
Korea, fighting increases as truce deadlocks. American and UN officers enter a meeting room in Kaesong, followed by North Korean and Chinese delegation. The communists threaten to break off the truce parleys with trumped up charges of United Nations truce violations. Explosions seen as fighting continues. Mountain ranges in background. Soldiers of Veteran Combat Units fire. The standstill resulting from the opposition adds to the fear of general war in the Orient. (Korean War)
World War 1 victory parade in Paris, France after signing of Armistice and end of World War I. Allied cavalry units, infantry units and band march down the Champ Elysees with Arc de Triomphe in the background. French soldiers carry American flags at the victory celebration and parade.
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