Re-deployment of U.S. soldiers in Le Havre, France during World War II. A ship at a pier. Soldiers of 35th Division walk up a gangway. They board the ship. The soldiers carry barrack bags. A band plays. Major General Franklin Rose presents a plaque to Corporal Alvan N. Corgers. A Red Cross girl kisses the Cpl before he boards the transport. A rope from the transport is let down to a tug boat. The tug boat tows the transport away from the pier.
Celebration of VJ Day (victory over Japan day) in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia at the end of World War II. Czech girls in native dresses dance in front of a reviewing stand. American, Russian and Czech troops parade through the streets. A Liaison plane drops pamphlets. U.S. Army Major General Ernest Nason Harmon speaks from the reviewing stand. American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Laurence A. Steinhardt, Russian Colonel General Zhadou and other dignitaries in the background.
Czech civilians pose with some U.S. soldiers of the 16th Armored Division, in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, at end of World War 2, in Europe. They are standing on top and in front of an abandoned German tank. They completely cover the tank, and wave enthusiastically for the camera. Scene shifts to the rear of an M24 Chaffee light tank, with some civilians gathered around it, as it prepares to move out, behind an M3A1 halftrack pulling an M10 ammunition trailer. Views of other halftracks loaded with U.S. troops and equipment. Several American infantrymen gathered at a fence, one pointing out sniper location, while another takes aim with his rifle. American soldier in a 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 (aka, 105 mm Self Propelled Gun, Priest, by the British Army). He is firing its M2 .50 caliber air-cooled machine gun in its raised cupola. Brief glimpse of a Czech soldier aiming his rifle behind a tracked vehicle.
A U.S. Army jeep rolls slowly in front of a group of civilians with their hands raised in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, at the end of World War 2, in Europe. They are guarded by Czech partisans and Czech citizens. (The civilians are likely German civilians during expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovia at the end of the war. They may also include Czech civilians accused of collaboration with the Germans.) Two U.S. soldiers walk on sidewalk with a Czech policeman. The soldiers stand in front of a group of civilians on the sidewalk, looking upward. An elderly Czech civilian man with a rifle looks upward from edge of a building. A German officer is seen in window of a building. A white cloth (as flag of surrender) hangs from adjacent window. Armed U.S. soldiers escort high-ranking German officers, from their local headquarters, to a vehicle, as local citizens watch. U.S. soldiers and Czech partisans in a backyard, look for snipers in building nearby. German military prisoners, guarded by Czech partisans, stand with hands raised on a sidewalk. The partisans search German soldiers as they come out of a building. Some civilian women are held with the German soldiers.
A film titled 'Hannibal Victory' on the sea voyage of the victory ship Hannibal Victory from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands during World War II. Steam boat underway at Mississippi river. A man at the controls of the boat. Bridges over the river. A statue of Mark Twain amidst the ground. Two girls arrive near the statue. 'Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain' engraved on a plaque. Another statue amidst the ground. Cars passing on the street. Buildings along the sides of the street. People walking. Trains passing on railroad stations. Aerial view of the town of Hannibal. Wheels of the freight cars on the ground. Men standing nearby. Animated map locates Hannibal and San Francisco. The wheels are loaded onto ships on the docks of San Francisco.
The sea voyage of the victory ship Hannibal Victory from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands during World War II. A ship being launched for the purpose of transportation of equipment. A plaque on the ship. 'SS Hannibal Victory built for U.S. Maritime Commission' engraved on the plaque. Railroad wheels and axles, coal tender and, other equipment stacked on the dock to be loaded. Men working for the loading of the equipment. Rations and hospital supplies are also loaded onto the ship. Men preparing to load railroad locomotives onto the ship. A man and woman walking on the streets of San Francisco, with San Francisco harbor views and skyline views beyond them. Buildings and houses in the area. Cars parked outside a building. A woman bids good bye to the man. The man boards the ship.
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