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Montage of scenes related to Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Point of view shot from rear car of railroad train being pulled by a steam locomotive over the South Manchuria Railway in the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Zone. View of railroad tracks stretching out over plains and flatlands behind, and smoke from the locomotive drifts behind. The train is stopped at a sign reading Manchuria (in Cyrillic) and in Chinese. The locomotive emits steam. Camera pans to a railroad station building at the side of the railroad. Next is seen, a small Japanese graveyard containing several stone monuments and a number of upright grave markers. The ground is snow-covered. Change of scene shows two groups of high-flying military aircraft in V formations. The next scene is an aerial view from an airplane flying over a river valley surrounded by rugged terrain. Next is seen a column of Japanese Army vehicles moving across snow-covered terrain. An armored car moves ahead of the column. (It is a Secherad-Panzerkraftwagen Sumida, Model 2590, armored car.) A long column, of mostly army trucks, follows. Japanese soldiers, carrying rifles with fixed bayonets,escort a soldier carrying their unit colors, furled and in a case. An informal group of Japanese soldiers, watch from nearby. A long column of Japanese infantry, move across desert terrain. A troop column interspersed with vehicles, continues over rugged desert terrain. A column of military vehicles. Aerial view of Japanese bombers in loose V formation. One circles slowly. An unidentified Japanese twin engine high wing monoplane (possibly amphibian) with open cockpit, drops a torpedo, or bomb. Sudden scene change to a bomb falling and explosions on the ground as bombs strike. Pursuit aircraft maneuvering. Three Japanese Mitsubishi 2MB1 - Type 87 bombers in formation, dropping many bombs. Aerial views of bombs striking, and ground views of explosions.
The 10th Annual Washington International horse race at Laurel race course in Maryland United States
The 10th Annual Washington International horse race at Laurel Racecourse (Route 198 & Racetrack Road Laurel, MD 20725) in Maryland. A shot from starter's gun begins the horse race. Horses gallop fast on the racecourse. Nearly 31,000 people gather to watch the race. Two horses run close towards finish. Kelso with Eddie Arcaro up finishes second. The Venezuelan horse finishes third, prior to the Russian horse. The race is won by T.V. Lark in a record period of 2.26.50 minutes. Women in the crowds cheering after T.V. Lark won the race. The prize for winner is 70 thousand dollars.
Early allied victories in Europe during World War II are challenged by German counter attacks in late 1944
Elements of U.S. Army arriving in a town in France, in August, 1944, during World War 2. Local people line the sides of the roads to welcome them. Young French women reach up to American soldiers in the back of an open stake truck and later mingle with them on the ground. Some of them kiss the soldiers. Some American flags are displayed by people in the crowd of well-wishers. One American soldier holds up a souvenir Nazi flag.Large crowds of French people gathered in a square to welcome the Americans. Many display the "V for Victory" sign with their hands. Film fades to a brief glimpse of a fallen soldier, and new slate reads: "Counterattack." Next, U.S. Medical Corpsmen are seen carrying American wounded to ambulances in the field in December, 1944.Several views of medics attending to American wounded soldiers. American infantrymen advancing across a field beside a Pershing T26E3 tank. (Note: It has 6 bogey wheels. Not designated M26 until 1945.) American infantry advancing into area of burning buildings and then into built up part of town, where they take up defensive positions inside a building. A U.S. soldier firing out a building window. Other U.S. soldiers firing from positions behind a wall. One is next to a mortar. Buildings burning and destroyed all around them. Close-up of American soldiers firing M1 Garand rifles from behind the wall. Infantrymen hunkered down behind a stone wall with light snow atop it. An explosion from a hand grenade raises smoke. A medical Corpsman checks a fallen American soldier for sign of life. Next, a Chaplain is seen reading from a small bible or prayer book, as he stoops over the fallen soldier. Fallen and wounded soldiers are carried to a truck, from the battlefield, on stretchers. Scene shifts abruptly to captured German film depicting two junior officers conversing in the field and then to German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel conversing with an artillery assault gun officer. Rommel holds a pair of eyeglasses in his right hand. The gun officer wears binoculars around his neck. A war torn city. German Volkssturm (People's Militia) parading. Some carry panzerfaust anti-tank weapons over their shoulders. A field full of German King Tiger II Ausf. B Heavy Tanks. One being driven out of the field. A German SdKfz 251 halftrack maneuvering in woods. it is covered with foliage for camouflage. German soldier in an open single seat courier car. It and he are spattered with mud. Close-ups of the mud-spattered driver smoking an cigar. German infantry moving across a field and moving along a road, in the mist. German infantry moving along a muddy road near a forest. A German V-1 Buzz bomb seen overhead with engine running. It flames out. Next an explosion and rising smoke is seen inside a town.
Different communication equipment used by units of the United States Army Signal Corps.
Communication means and equipment maintained and used by the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War 2. Soldiers in a life boat use a hand cranked radio and an aircraft comes to rescue them. They wave at the aircraft. View of machines used for processing and printing V-Mail letters that are typed by machines and then delivered to soldiers. View of a soldier opening a small V-mail envelope and reading the note inside. Men and women work at various jobs in America in support of war production and war materiel. Men and women war production workers assembling various pieces of electronic equipment and radio devices. Men and women in large, busy clerical and administrative offices supporting typing and communications for the U.S. Army and military. Engineers work in a laboratory. A man loads a tube into a pneumatic message delivery system. Close up views of woman's hands on typewriter typing telegrams, letters, and messages. Women file clerks sort files. Technicians work on a telegraph machine. U.S. Army soldiers on a pole stringing communication wires. A soldier ties a wire on a tree. (World War II period).
U.S. Soldiers and military police battle Vietcong in Saigon during Tet Offensive, Vietnam War
Vietcong Tet Offensive in Saigon, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army armored commando car V-100 drives on a narrow street towards a wrecked 2.5 ton truck. Trees on either side of the street. Smoke in the background. U.S. Army soldiers and military police fire rifles during battle. U.S. Soldiers take cover behind walls and fire rifles. The armored commando car backs out from the narrow street away from the burned out truck. A wounded soldier is taken from the V-100. He is placed on a litter and is carried to an ambulance. A wrecked, bullet ridden Vietcong car outside the U.S. Embassy compound. Vietcong dead being collected on the American Embassy grounds. Vietnamese civilians on vehicles on the streets. M-113 Armored Personnel Carriers drive past U.S. 25th Infantry Division. Houses along the sides of the streets.
French aviator Louis Blériot flies his first monoplane aircraft in Calais, France, 20 years after his record Channel crossing
History of famous airplanes and aviators. French aviator Louis Blériot in Calais, France. The pioneer inventor of aircraft is greeted warmly by friends prior to taking off in his first monoplane aircraft, the Blériot XI, in which he was the first to cross the English Channel nearly 20 years earlier. Bleriot gets into the cockpit. The tail structure of the airplane. A flag of France on the tail. 'L Bleriot' written on the tail section. The aircraft taxis across a field past a parked French twin-engined Farman Goliath F.60 biplane airliner. The Blériot XI aircraft takes off. A large crowd of spectators watches the aircraft. The next scene shows a large Blériot Bl-127 ( powered by 2 Hispano-Suiza 12Hb, 550 hp, V-12 engines). As it taxis toward the camera, Its "V" configured engines are exposed and clearly visible. A group of spectators is gathered as the pilot and Louis Blériot emerge from a hatch in the airplane. An official greets M. Blériot.
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