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Atlantic and Pacific theaters 1944 stock footage and images
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U.S. Joint Strategic Target Planning staff pose for a group photo with Secretary Robert McNamara in Nebraska,United States.
U.S. Joint Strategic Target Planning staff meets to discuss Project Guard Rail at SAC (Strategic Air Command) headquarters in Nebraska, United States. Ramp rolls up to an aircraft at Offutt Air Force Base as U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell L Gilpatric and General Lemnitzer alight. The officials get in staff cars and drive away. U.S. Joint Strategic Target Planning staff gathered in the SAC's operations map room for a group picture. The officers include Commandant of U.S. Marine Corps General David M Shoup, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral George W Anderson, Chief of U.S. Army General Lemnitzer, Secretary McNamara, Deputy Secretary Gilpatric, U.S. Army General George H Decker, Chief of Staff and Chief of U.S. Air Force General Curtis LeMay, Commander-in-Chief of the North American Air Defense General Lawrence S Kuter, Admiral Harry D Felt Commander of Pacific Command, General Thomas S Power, Admiral R L Dennison Commander of the Atlantic Command, Air Deputy to Supreme Allied Commander General Samuel E Anderson, Commander of Naval Forces in Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Admiral Harold P Smith, Commander of USS TRICOM General Paul De Witt Adams, U.S. Army Commander of the Caribbean region Lieutenant General Andrew P O'Mera.
Montage of World War II scenes, encompassing the allied Pacific campaigns and Big Three wartime meetings.
Allied campaigns against Japan during World War II. Animated map depicts battles for various islands in the Pacific like Guadalcanal, Palau, Mariana Islands. A map of the Philippines. United States troops invade the Philippines. Naval guns fire at a shore and flak bursts are seen. Dramatic shot of a Japanese Zero aircraft approaching U.S. Navy ships that are firing guns. The Japanese aircraft is hit at close range to the ship, a wing ruptures, it is consumed in fire and crashes with explosion in the sea beside the ship. Many landing craft with U.S. Army forces landing at beach on Leyte. Soldiers land and advance inland. United States Army General Douglas MacArthur and President Sergio Osmena of the Philippines wade ashore. Native women and children on the island are assisted by U.S. forces and provided with food and protection. Following are meetings of wartime Allied leaders, shown briefly in the ending of the film: TC: 01: 39, Prime Minister Winston Churchill meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the battleship, USS Augusta, at Newfoundland, during the Atlantic Conference, 1941. Roosevelt stands at the railing, assisted by his son, Army Captain Elliot Roosevelt. TC: 01:41. Roosevelt and Churchill meeting with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, at the Cairo conference, in 1943. TC: 01:44. Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill pose outside the Livadia Palace during the Yalta conference, 1945. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, American Ambassador Harriman, British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, and Churchill's daughter, Sarah, in uniform, are among those standing behind the seated Big Three. TC: 01:46, Delegates from 51 Nations gathered for the first meeting of the UN General Assembly,in Westminster Central Hall,London, England, in 1946.
Lend Lease materials transported across the world by convoys of American and British ships in World War II
Opening scene shows Lend Lease military equipment covered with canvas, at a port in the United States, during World War 2. A B-26 bomber with wings removed outboard of its engines, is being maneuvered for shipment at a port in the United States. A Lockheed P-38 airplane is moved on a crane and then rolled along a pier toward the stern of the U.S. Light Cruiser, USS Phoenix (CL-46) which is docked there. Wings of a Curtiss SOC-1 Seagull scout plane can be seen on the Phoenix. Two more P-38 aircraft are rolled along the pier, past another Brooklyn class Light Cruiser at the end of the pier. (Her triple 6-inch gun turrets are noticeable.) Crated supplies are seen being lowered into ship cargo holds. An American M2 light tank being lowered from a crane. An American M3 Lee tank being secured in a ship. Numerous tanks in a ship’s cargo hold. Next, a convoy of ships carrying war materiel overseas is seen at sea. A U.S. Cruiser plunging through heavy seas. View from her bridge overlooking her triple gun turrets, as her bow is awash in waves. A formation of U.S. battleships, led by a Nevada class Battle Ship armed with twin over triple forward gun turrets. She is followed by what appears to be a modernized Pennsylvania class Battleship and other battleships. A British Battle Cruiser followed by another British warship. Various Allied battleships firing their heavy guns. Animated map tracing the “Lend-Lease” routes across the North Atlantic to Iceland, the British Isles, and Murmansk. Map also shows routes by sea and air to the West Indies, Brazil, and South Africa and West Africa, and then by air across Africa, to egypt and the Middle East. Other routes are shown to Suez, Iran, India, and China, as well as trans-Pacific routes to various places. American soldiers crowd the upper deck of a troop transport ship. A military chaplain conducts religious services aboard ship at sea. More views of ships in convoys. A U.S. Navy Kingfisher float plane in flight over the water. A barrage balloon aloft. A U.S. Navy Catalina PBY flying boat in the air above a fleet of supply ships in a vast convoy.
United States President Franklin Roosevelt addresses nation and shows the channels of American ships, in Washington DC.
United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation from White House in Washington DC during World War 2. Sitting at his desk he points to a map of globe behind his desk. He demonstrates lines of travel of American ships. He points towards North Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. He shows various harbors and naval bases at waterfronts of the United States.
Denver and Rio Grande Western train moves under the Moffat Tunnel and arrives at Union Station in Colorado,United States.
Denver and Rio Grande Western train arrives in Colorado,United States. Train moves through the Moffat Tunnel which joins Atlantic and Pacific Slopes of America. View of mountain ranges from the moving train. Union Station building.
