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U.S. Air Force SAC cooks serve food, and airmen at swimming pool in Nebraska, United States.
USAF Strategic Air Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, United States. U.S. Air Force cooks serve food. African American children in chow line. A sign on a boy's t-shirt reads 'Project R.E.C.' for recreation, employment and company. The cooks serve food. Children eat food. A sign on check post reads : 'Offutt Air Force Base'. Volunteers arrive for recreation training. A sign reads : 'Airmen Swimming Pool'. Airmen rest, dive and swim at the pool. Young children look at a notice board. U.S. flag is lowered and civilians of Omaha standing in the foreground.
Chinese airmen board a U.S. troop carrier aircraft at Austin, Texas
United States and Chinese airmen at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas July 1946. The Neo-Classical building is the Texas State Capital at Austin, Texas and Austin Texas is noted on the graduate’s diploma “Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas”. At this time the 349th Troop Carrier Group was based at Bergstrom and assigned to the Third Air Force, Tactical Air Command as noted on the diploma. Also “Air Force Combat Units of World War II” Edited by Maurer Maurer states this unit trained Chinese crews to operate C-46 aircraft. Film is very interesting in that it visually shows the transition from “Army brown to Air Force Blue” for the C-46s still carry the I TROOP CARRIER COMMAND insigne on the nose, with was disbanded on 4 Nov 1945 but they have the new AAF wide "Buzz Numbers" for all aircraft operating solely within the continental USA, by T.O. 07-1-1 of November 1945 and the graduate’s diploma is notating the new post-war air force type command reorganization of March 1946.
U.S. Army Artillery unit engaged in training maneuvers at Fort Crook, Nebraska.
United States Army artillerymen arrive with a caisson and field piece, at a training observation post in a field at Fort Crook, Nebraska. They separate the gun from the caisson and begin to set it up. The next scene shows an artillery unit with teams of horses pulling caissons and field pieces. Scene reverts back to artillery observation post, where soldiers erect an observation ladder from their caisson,stabilized by guy wires. A soldier climbs it to observe from the top, with binoculars. More artillery is seen being pulled across the training fields. A horseman gallops across the field past the camera. He meets and officer standing by a flag and salutes after receiving an order, and gallops off.
Wheat, corn, rye and sugar beet are harvested and transported to storing areas in the Northwestern United States.
Farms in the Northwestern United States. Animated map shows wheat producing areas in the United States. A tractor plow in operation. Wheat is cut using a harvester. A thresher in operation on a field. Wheat is loaded in a truck. The truck hauls wheat to grain elevators. A box car used to transport wheat to a flour mill. Animation depicts the transportation of wheat to flour mills and then the transportation of flour to the rest of the United States. Animated map shows corn belts in the United States. Corn is harvested on a field. Corn loaded in a tractor is transported. Corn being stocked in silos. Fields of rye in Nebraska. Harvesting of flax and hay. Animated map shows annual rainfall in cultivated areas. A piece of land is plowed. Animated map shows various irrigation projects. Farmers work in a sugar beet field.
French General Charles de Gaulle is feted in Chicago during his visit to the United States in 1945
Film opens showing people in an American city (possibly Chicago) celebrating the Allied victory over Japan on VJ Day, August 15th, 1945. Scene shifts abruptly to Chicago, Illinois, where French General Charles de Gaulle is seen saluting in a reviewing stand at Victory Plaza near Lasalle Street entrance to City Hall. (On August 24th, he had accepted an invitation from Mayor Edward Kelly to stop in Chicago on August 27-28, 1945, during his visit to the U.S. and Canada.) Next, general de Gaulle and Mayor Kelly are seen in an open car in a motorcade amidst crowds of well-wishers. Enthusiastic spectators run along side their car. Glimpse of a dense crowd of people, including a contingent of sailors in dress whites. Final scene shows General de Gaulle speaking with reporters and photographers near a sign reading "W-G-N." (A Chicago radio station). (World War II period).
City views of San Francisco; United Nations Conference on International Organization held in San Francisco, California (WW2)
A documentary on The United Nations Conference on International Organization that continued from April 25, 1945 to June 26, 1945 in San Francisco. A plane in flight and ships are seen in San Francisco Bay. 1940s San Francisco city views: Aerial views of Golden Gate Bridge. People on streets on San Francisco, with streetcars, buildings, pedestrians, and mid 1940's cars seen. Aircraft parked at a USAF Base as delegates from 50 countries arrive. Delegates like Jan Christian Smuts from South Africa, Vyacheslav Molotov from Russia, U.S. secretary of State Edward Stettinius arrive in San Francisco. Delegates register for the conference. United States flag on a building. Interior of the War Memorial Opera House serving as the initial meeting hall. Delegates seated. U.S. President Harry S. Truman addressing the general assembly remotely, as delegates listen through radio speakers in the opera house. Narrator recalls words of Franklin Roosevelt and recorded audio of Roosevelt is heard where he urges continuation of the work first begun by the defunct League of Nations. View of various working committees and smaller groups of the organization meeting during the Spring of 1945. Representatives debate and review concepts initiated at the Dumbarton Oaks conference in Washington DC in 1944 during World War II. Delegates addressing those assembled and signing documents that create the United Nations.
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