Allied forces capture Cherbourg during World War 2. Town sign of Cherbourg, France. Soldiers pass through ruined street in Cherbourg. Allied troops patrol Cherbourg. United States troops of the 324th Regiment 79th infantry division enter Cherbourg as they close in from east, south, and west of the town. Infantry patrolling an empty street in Cherbourg. United States Army sniper firing with a rifle. A military truck is parked on a street as soldiers conduct house-to-house mopping up operations. A United States soldier firing a rifle to take out snipers. U.S. infantry soldiers enter a house. An American soldier runs out of the Café du Rond-Point. Road signs near the Café du Rond-Point say “Valognes PARIS” and “Einzelfahrzeuge” (“Single vehicles” translated from German). A United States sniper aims from a window of a house attic. An American soldier guards an entrance of an apartment. Close view of a United States soldier aiming and shooting. Taking of prisoners of war: Captured German soldiers with their hands up are marched out of a building by American troops. A dead German soldier in the doorway of a building.
Dr. Frederick Earl McLendon and his wife Mrs. Bennie B. McLendon are seen with a guest on the backyard terrace of their home in Atlanta, Georgia. They are then see in front of their house. Dr. McLendon, pulls mail from his mailbox. The couple returns to the house. Mailbox address reads “Dr. F. Earl McLendon 866 Woodmere Dr. N.W.” Dr. McLendon is then seen talking with an older associate while sitting at a patio table on the terrace. View of the home's swimming pool. African American Doctor Frederick Earl McLendon founded the McLendon Medical Clinic, later McLendon Hospital, which served African-American residents in Atlanta at the height of the Jim Crow era. The hospital opened in April, 1946 during a time of segregation in the south.
Exterior view of the David T. Howard School in Old Fourth Ward (present address 551 John Wesley Dobbs Avenue.) This is the elementary school Martin Luther King Jr attended. Men enter school building. Sign on "Colored Only" taxi parked outside reads “Colored Only Atlanta Car for Hire Ass’n Inc. Member”. A Black woman walks down a stone stairway at a Fourth Ward apartment building formerly at the corner of Hilliard St and Irwin St NE in Atlanta. Closeup of community water pump. Foundations for Interstate 85 overpass under construction in background. This is during the segregated Jim Crow era in the south.
United States Douglas A-20 Havoc medium bombers bombing railway, highway and airfields in Northern France after the Normandy Landings (WW2). United States Ninth Airforce Douglas A-20 Havoc medium bombers flying to the German-occupied airfield of Lessay, Normandy. Aerial view of Lessay and nearby highway and railroad bridges being bombed. A Douglas A-20 Havoc drops bombs over a town south of Cherbourg. A railroad bridge is bombed. Dark smoke pillar rises from bombed railway bridge. Douglas A-20 Havoc medium bombers flying to bomb the Seine and the Belgian border two weeks after the Normandy landings. Thick clouds of smoke covers the heavily bombed airfield.
United States Martin B-26 Marauder bombers bomb dump near Cherbourg during World War II. United States Ninth Airforce Martin B-26 Marauder bombers in flight. Bombs dropping into a Nazi petrol dump about 13 miles south of Cherbourg, Normandy. Aerial view of area around Cherbourg. Thick smoke pillar over a Nazi petrol dump. Martin B-26 Marauders drop more bombs in flight. Aerial view of petrol dump severely bombed by the Ninth Airforce bombers.
A Spanish-speaking journalist reports on the developments of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the United States. The journalist makes his report beside an America-centric world map. The map changes into a North and South America map. The projector shows a photo of United States President John F. Kennedy, briefly changing into a silhouette of the Americas and the island of Cuba, before reverting back to Kennedy’s photo. The reporter discusses the missile sites and the dismantling of Soviet weapons in Cuba.
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