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Women participate in Ostrich race in El Cerrito, California.
Women participate in Ostrich race in El Cerrito, California. After several attempts to jump up and mount their ostriches, two young women manage to hold on and ride successfully. However, by the end, each had fallen from their respective ostriches.
Yosemite National Park, California. Views of valley,mountains,waterfall, 'El Capitan".
Yosemite National Park in California. Several views of valley and a river below. Men seated near frame buildings near the edge of a valley. A high waterfall in the background. Rock formation ("El Capitan"). Views of valley and a waterfall. Views of forest, mountains and waterfall.
Dock hands at work and crew on the deck of USS California (BB-44) departing Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
USS California (BB-44) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States. A marine sentry moves past in the foreground. Men look at the ship in the foreground from a dock. Crew and dock workers on the deck of the ship. View of aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) passing by in the background (having arrived at Pearl Harbor September 21 for repairs). USS California was departing for Puget Sound Navy Yard for major reconstruction following her damage during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the prior December 7. The USS California underwent dry dock repairs at Pearl Harbor Drydock Number Two until June 7, 1942, and then was moved under her own power to a wharf at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard for reinstallation of guns in July before departing on October 10 for the Puget Sound Navy Yard. (World War II period).
Early pictures of American General George S Patton in Africa during World War II.
'The Big Picture' episode narrated by Ronald Reagan depicts the life of U.S. General George S Patton, Jr. Opening scene shows General George S. Patton, Jr. stepping from a landing craft in France, during World War 2. He stands by the side of a road and waves, as elements of his 3rd Army pass in tanks. Patton in a jeep moving with his troops. General Patton pointing with a baton, in North Africa. View of a world globe being circled by a satellite. A baby picture of Patton (called "Georgie"). Patton seen as a boy, fencing, as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, and as a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. A smiling Patton at West Point. Members of the first football team for soldiers established by Patton. Renault tanks of the 1st Tank Battalion moving with AEF soldiers in World War I. Tank commander George Patton standing in front of a Renault tank. Group picture of American soldiers and tanks, at the Tank School, in Fort Meade, Maryland, after World War I. Closeup of Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton, in the group. Patton and his wife, Beatrice Banning Ayer, in Old West costumes, for a party, where he displays a pistol in his belt, and in costumes for another party, where they dress as a knight and his lady on horseback. American recruits and draftees being issued uniforms in World War 2. Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr. commanding forces for the invasion of North Africa, in November, 1942. U.S. Navy warships fire their guns in advance of an amphibious landing. Landing craft heading toward shore. U.S. troops coming ashore at Casablanca, French Morocco. General Patton accompanied by French officers. Glimpse of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at their conference in Casablanca in 1943. Patton riding in an armored car with three-star flag displayed. Artillery firing in battle of Tunisia. Lt. Gen. Patton and others observing operations. British General, Sir Harold Alexander, steps from a light airplane to meet with General Patton in North Africa. They converse. Patton and another officer looking through binoculars from a ridge by the village of El Guettar, as allies engage German troops and armor from the 10th Panzer Division. M3 Lee tanks moving in the desert. Knocked out tanks of the German 10th Panzer Division. General Patton coming aboard an American warship, and then standing with an Italian officer and a U.S. Major General. Allied naval bombardment at night. Patton observing though binoculars. Allied warships bombarding Sicily. Allied amphibious forces heading ashore in landing craft. Troops moving ashore. Closeup of troops in a landing craft. Glimpse of Patton in a landing craft. Troops walking across floating dock from a landing ship. U.S. flag flying in sand at beachhead. Landing ships in background. General Patton stepping ashore from small boat, and conversing onshore with a Brigadier General and some troops.
The last remaining XB-51 aircraft crashes and burns while taking off at El Paso International Airport, near Biggs AFB,Texas
The sole remaining (of 2) Martin XB-51 Bomber aircraft, stationed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, taxis and takes off at El Paso International Airport. Moments after breaking ground on takeoff, this first prototype, number 46-0685, settles back onto the runway and crashes in fire and smoke. Flight engineer, S/Sgt. Wilbur R. Savage, of Rte. 3, Dawsonville, Georgia is killed in the crash and Maj. James O. Rudolph, pilot, succumbed to his injuries the next month.
Film about the role of American hydroelectric power in World War II
Film opens with montage of rapid images illustrating the outbreak of World War 2 in Europe. Appeals from the Allied powers are described. Shown is a field full of American Martin B-26 bombers ready for shipment abroad. View of men working in a construction site. Towers holding high tension electric supply lines are seen. Products needing electric power for production, such as aluminum and magnesium are shown as ingots in production facilities. View of the Columbia River waters surging along its course. Views of the Bonneville Dam and power plant, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Giant electric generators operating in the hydroelectric plants. Technicians in power plant control rooms, and views of transmission lines and switch yards outside a power plant. A ship under construction at a wartime shipyard. Workers using electric arc welders during ship construction. View of the SS Mormacwren launched 22 May 1942 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation's Wilmington, California yard. Launch on May 22, 1942, of the ship, Irving S. Olds, a Bulk Freighter built by the American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio. (Her launch was coordinated with those of numerous other ocean cargo vessels in yards around the United States, to bolster the national morale, when German submarines were sinking many ships in the Atlantic.) Next, a ladle of molten aluminum, to be used in aircraft manufacture, is seen pouring its contents into ingot molds. Workers dislodge the ingots after cooling. Inside an aircraft plant, men assemble aircraft parts from aluminum. A partially completed medium bomber is towed outside the plant. View of Grand Coulee Dam and of many electrical distribution facilities. Herds of sheep moving across the Grand Coulee Dam to new pastures.
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