The Price of Liberty

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Year Published: 1951

Creator: Pathe News

Complete Record: Walter Cronkite takes a break from typing and addresses the camera to say “Liberty is the most expensive commodity in the world today, we have it only because we are willing and able to pay the price for preserving it against communist aggression.” Ally Headquarters outside of France. Eisenhower dedicating the headquarters July 30th 1951. An appeal to the role of women in wars for liberty. Women marching with banners. Nurses. Staging of images from 1777 the war between the states. Images of women as nurses in the midst of war. Images from 1940 when women were first recruited and enlisted for war. “Women Marines.” Images of American Service women during World War II. Women in war planes. Military women. Winston Churchill shaking the hand of a woman soldier. Truman presenting a special postage stamp in honor of the women of the USAF “Military strength is still the only practical answer to the menace of communism.” Cross-disolved images of young American Service women superimposed over a beautiful sky backdrop