United States Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in Yan'an, Shaanxi province, China during World War II. Chinese officers and General Patrick Hurley plan strategies for combat at an Allied military base. The officers talk to each other. General Hurley with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai poses for a photograph. The dignitaries board a plane. Officers of the mission receive farewell from Chinese officers while returning from mission.
United States Military Mission visits Communist headquarters and meets its leaders in in Yan'an, Shaanxi province, China during World War II. General Patrick Hurley and other U.S. Army officers of the mission at their base. General Hurley talks to Chinese Communist leader Zhou Enlai. The officers of mission pose for a group photograph. The Chinese leaders and officers bid farewell to the American officers of the mission. Officers board a plane to return. Chinese soldier march on roads and a truck pass by their side.
Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, visits United States and meets with U.S. President Richard Nixon. An airman stands near a helicopter at a base in Camp David, Maryland. Motorcade of dignitaries arrives. Secretary Rogers and Kosygin followed by other staff members walk towards the helicopter. They board the helicopter as servicemen salute them. The helicopter takes off.
U.S. President Richard Nixon is among the spectators watching a football game between Texas and Arkansas at Fayetteville, Arkansas. Teams take the field after half time and kick off. Old people among spectators eat during the match. Excited spectators cheer and raise banners. Some banners with Nixon written on them are seen at base of stands.
U.S. troops' invasion on the Marshall Islands and destruction of Japanese garrisons during World War II. An animated map depicts the location of Marshall Islands in the South East Asia. U.S. Navy ships proceed in order to take the island from their enemies. The animated map depicts the tactics of U.S. Navy. The soldiers attack the Kwajalein Island. Roi and Namur in the north are attacked by the U.S. Marines. The U.S. fighter aircraft. Soldiers in small boats approach towards the Marshall Islands. Aerial bombarding on the island by the U.S. fighter aircraft. The American soldiers take their positions on the island's coast. Soldiers with their weapons. An officer examines the bomb explosion through binoculars. The remains of a destroyed Japanese aircraft. American soldiers capture the Japanese base headquarter. The dead Japanese soldiers. The arrival of more American troops on the island.
Film begins, showing remains of a Boeing B-17F from the U.S. 100th Bombardment Group (BG) with home base at RAF Station Thorpe Abbotts, England, during World War 2. Camera pans over a field of debris containing two of the aircraft's engines and the wreckage of the fuselage and tail. The tail displays the Square D symbol of the 100th BG, plus the letter "T" and some of its tail number: "2303." Camera pans interior wreckage including crew seats and oxygen tanks. It then shows broken wings along with bodies of several crew members wearing parachute harnesses. A different side of the fuselage and tail shows the tail number "230311." This fully identifies it as B-17, number 42-23011. A field grade German officer and another officer examine the wreckage. Views of aircraft wreckage, in a forest, including a Browning M2 .50 caliber machine gun and another aircraft engine. Scene shifts to nearby town, where German women in white are serving meals at an outdoor food kitchen, for local people who are preparing to evacuate. A camper van loaded with family belongings is seen moving in the background. Several women, carrying plates of their food, walk toward tables. Some sit and eat at a table with a German soldier. Women make themselves sandwiches with foods laid out on a butcher block table. Closeup of a large drum of drinking water. local people fill containers from it. German children are seen aboard a bus waving goodbye to their mothers during evacuation for their safety. German children are placed aboard open boats at a port, for transport to safety out of war zone. German women and children board a train during evacuation to safety. Huge piles of their luggage is stacked on the train platform. View of a substantial private home in a residential area. Inside view shows it has been converted into nursery for infants, who are seen in many small cribs. Women sit on the lawn behind a substantial country home, as some small children run toward them from the house.
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