Dignitaries at the Noble prize distribution ceremony in New York. Dignitaries seated on platform. People gather to watch the ceremony. Dr Joseph Erlanger, Dr HS Gasser and others receive the Noble prize. People applaud.
Bombing the Leyte Island, Manila. Carrier based planes bomb the island. Officer gives final orders of attack to the pilots. Pilots board their aircraft. Aircraft takes off from the carrier deck. Planes in formation. High altitude view of the sea. Planes drop bombs. Admiral Radford watches through binoculars for the return of the fliers. Smoke arises due to bombarding. Soldiers fire from battleship. Smoke arises from fliers hit by the enemy bombs. Aircraft on carrier. Wounded pilot on board. Soldiers stand in line on the battleship. Officer decorates them. (World War II period).
French and United States Army 3rd Army troops liberate Strasbourg, France during World War II. Tanks of the French 1st Army moves from the Swiss border. Sign reads “Mülhausen Elsaß” (“Mulhouse, Alsace”). Troops find the body of a dead German soldier along the road. They advance in the Metz area. The 9th army advances through villages in bordering Germany. Soldiers walk on the battlefield. German prisoners of war (POWs) walk along with the soldiers. Civilians holding the French flag return to their homes after the battle. Strasbourg sign in German reads “Straßburg Schiltigheim”. Bell tower of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Strasbourg, France. Damaged buildings near the Cathedral. The street is littered with pile of handheld, small Nazi flags with swastika emblem. Men gather outside buildings discussing amongst themselves. Third Army troops walk in the mud. Weather overshoes are distributed to troops. Soldiers put on all-weather boots. More German soldiers and officers are captured in Metz. United States Ninth Army troops enter the town of Weisweiler, Germany. Soldiers moving through backyards, chicken houses and engage in house-to-house fighting. A mortar crew fire mortars behind trench made of sandbags. A wounded soldier crawls himself to reach an aid station. Medical aid stations at various places on the battlefield. Medics treat a wounded soldier. A dying soldier lies down on the street. Soldiers carry a patient to top of a tank. They march forward on the battlefield as officers on Jeep watch on.
Burmese natives clear mud from roads in Burma during World War II. United States troops work along with them. They work for opening supply routes to China. Vehicles pass on road. People walk. Vehicles carrying supplies needed for the work. Workers dig out mud.
United States troops improvise time saving devices in Europe. Soldiers repair a military vehicle. A soldier works on an electric tower. Jeep parked on a railway track. The soldiers turn the jeep on track. Jeep moves on the track. Soldiers work on the jeep in a snow covered field. (World War II period).
Rebuilding of a demolished truck factory in France. Exterior of the wrecked building due to enemy bombing. Men discuss on the rebuilding. Workers work on the machinery and equipment inside the factory. (World War II period).
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