United States troops receive whole blood from home in Pacific Theater. An animated map shows boxes of blood flown from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor, Guam, and Leyte. Vehicles parked outside a Red Cross center. A woman donates blood. A nurse sits near her. Blood is kept in portable refrigerators. 'Human blood' written on the boxes. Plane lands in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The boxes are unloaded. The crew loads the boxes onto another plane. The boxes arrive in planes Guam. The blood boxes arrive at Base Hospital and are kept in refrigerators. Wounded soldier receives blood in Leyte, Philippines. (World War II period).
United States B-25 Mitchell bomber bomb Japanese Bases in New Guinea and New Britain in Pacific Theater. Preparations for the attack at night. B-25 bombers stand in a row. Pilots enter the planes. Planes take off. Aircraft in flight. Pilots seated in the cockpit. Smoke rises up due to explosions. Aerial view of the land. Splashes in water due to explosions. Planes return back after the mission is over. (World War II period).
Allied aircraft bomb Japanese base in Puerto Princesa Island, Philippines. Liberator aircraft in flight. An animated map shows the movement of the planes from Morotai to Puerto Princesa Island. Aircraft bomb Japanese installations. Smoke and explosions. Enemy airstrips are bombed. Aerial view of land. Planes in formation. (World War II period).
International Peace Campaign in London, England. A procession moves by the Czechoslovakian Legation on Grosvenor Place. Marchers carry banners. A banner reads 'For Peace, stop Hitler'. Large crowd follows the procession. Several people stand on the roadside. Buses and cars pass through the crowds. Policemen, on foot, and mounted, control the crowd and passing traffic. Demonstrators display raised fists. Four men stand in cleared area, holding American, British, Czechoslovakian and Russian flags. At Trafalgar Square, several people stand on a stage. An older woman speaks to the crowd. Lord Meston stands on the stage. People sit near a fountain in the center of the square. Banners hang at base of monument, saying: "Stand By Czechoslovakia, No Plebiscite."
Mountain climbing in the Crimea. Scene opens showing new blooms on a tree, framing the slopes of a Crimean moutain covered with small trees and shrubs. A column of people is seen wending their way through the area. A group of young persons stand side-by-side in a line at the base of a rocky upslope, apparently being addressed by mountain guides. Closeup of the rock climbers, including a woman. Some carry rope looped over their shoulders. A climber stands between two rock formations, grasps a rope and begins free climbing the rock. Closeup shows the safety rope fastened under his arms and tied at his back. Closeup of his feet as he makes his way. View of him quite far up the tall rock face. Below, other climbers shield their eyes from the sun as they watch his progress. View from the top of this section of mountain, as the climber hauls himself up over the ledge. Another view of those watching from below. Next, the climber is seen rappelling down the sheer rock face using his rope to control his descent. Camera focuses on two climbers standing atop peaks of the mountain. One throws a coil of rope across to another. A climber on a peak with suspended from rope line stretched taut across open space. The town of Alupka is below, and the Black Sea in the background. The climber rides the taut line (zip-line) across to the other peak, where other await him.
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Italy. The eruption damages the town of San Sebastiano. A view of the crater of the volcano. Huge billows of smoke filled with cinders and ash rise up in the sky. Smoke rises from mouth of the crater. Columns of boiling smoke. Smoke, ash and lava due to eruption of the volcano. Aerial view of towns at the base of the volcano.
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