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Days of Remembrance ceremonies at US military bases and television programs on Jewish war veterans.

Part 2, "America Salutes Women Workers in War Effort" Mrs. Roosevelt attends a ceremony honoring nurses who served in the Pacific. Shows women operating a lumber mill, testing tanks, and making guns. Newsreel footage also includes the following parts: Part 1, US bombers take off and land at an Australian air base. Shows Gen. Ralph Royce. Part 3, iron ore is dug, loaded on trains and freighters, and ...

Robert Koenig was stationed in RAMC base depot Crookham-Aldershot in 1945 whilst serving in the Czechoslovak Army in the Second World War. Upon his return home he found most of his relatives had perished in concentration camps. In 1946 he moved from Prague to Jablonec nad Nisou, Czechoslovakia, to start a new post at the civic gynaecological hospital. His letters are a addressed to Heinz Katz, a representative ...

Reel 1: A tank rolls past several waiting trucks. German soldiers mill about next to a burning Russian tank. Panning shot of German military vehicles and soldiers at the edge of a forest clearing. 00:01:10 Box marked "Akten" [files] and box marked "I a" with other items at outdoor HQ. CU of a soldier sleeping next to the base of a tree. A German soldier looks at a grieving Russian soldier (?). Panning ...

The film Kiku and Isamu (1959) was one of the first cinematic depictions of mixed-race children in postwar Japan, telling the story of two protagonists facing abandonment by two different Black GI fathers and ostracism from Japanese society. Bringing together studies of the representations of the Hapa Japanese experience in culture, Hapa Japan: Identities & Representations (Volume 2) tackles everything ...

An American Air Force officer holds a slate with the date and name of the cameraman. Shots of Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower riding at the head of a caravan of Jeeps and cars. The group appears to be driving through an American military base, with mountains visible in the background. Roosevelt's Jeep passes a line of uniformed men standing at attention, and then stops beside an American flag ...

Henry "Hank" Mayer (1923-2014) was born on 1 May 1923 as Hans Moritz Mayer in Ingelheim, Germany, the son of Martin and Regina Mayer. He has one sister, Rose (born 1924). In 1934, the family moved to Berlin, to be near other relatives, and Martin worked in a family-run coal business. In 1937, after the family was forced to sell their business, and the children were prohibited from attending school ...

On the Aleutian Islands/Kiska. CU, wooden sign in snow with illegible writing on it (camera is out of focus for this shot). MS, small cemetery, wooden crosses in snow. MS, soldier climbing down a tall wooden pole, seems to be a telephone pole. MCU, soldier climbing up pole, putting up phone lines at military base camp. VS, soldiers setting up camp in snow, shoveling snow, hamming it up for the camera, ...

Albert Scher served with the U.S. military intelligence between November 1945 and May 1946. The film of "Germany" includes coverage of war damage in Frankfurt, Air force station at Eschborn (Wiesbaden air force base), Orly airbase near Paris, Himmler’s greenhouse in Frankfurt (color), daily life in the Zeilsheim DP camp, soccer match, and children in costume for Purim. 01:09:27 to 01:18:06 - Zeilsheim ...

Colonel Alexander Zabin, MD was an American soldier from Malverne, Long Island, New York. As part of General Patton's 3rd Army, he served with the 4th Auxiliary Surgical Group. He landed on Normandy Beach on D-Day plus 1 and worked in the first US Army field hospital set up in France. He was with the 3rd Army through the campaigns in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Czechoslovakia. Dr. Zabin ...