Opening of the official anti-semitic campaign on 1st April, 1933 in Germany. Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels delivers anti-Jewish propaganda speech to a crowd, declaring that a boycott of Jewish businesses began at 10am that morning. He says it It is taking place with sudden force and impressive discipline. There is a cut in the audio and then he continues with a phrase that translates to "which now have found sanctuary in Paris and London and New York, our Party and our Führer-- Hail! Hail! Hail!" Crowd cheers him on. Soldiers of SA (Stormtroopers) loaded on truck along a street. Boycott of Jewish businesses showing a shop with a sign reading 'Achtung Juden'. SA pickets boycott Jewish owned shops.
From a film about U.S. troops including African American soldiers who battled courageously during World War II. U.S. troops and WACs (Women's Army Corps) including African American soldiers parade along a street. An African American pilot. U.S. Army Major-General Clarence H Kells decorates Sergeant Joe Louis (famous boxer) with the Legion of Merit medal at Fort Hamilton, New York, in 1945. U.S. soldiers perform different tasks. Closing slates include a slate saying the film is not to be shown to the general public, and a second slate stating "Seized Enemy Material...under License Number LM-185"
Army Day demonstrations at Langley Field outside Hampton Virginia: A long line of U.S. Army Air Corps P-36 aircraft of the 8th Pursuit Group with engines running. Those closest to the camera display the logo of the 36th Pursuit Squadron "Flying Fiends." View of Langley Airfield tower and terminal buildings in background. The P-36s taxi out, one-by-one, for takeoff. Tail number of the first one is: PH-80. Flight of three perform a formation takeoff. Brief instant view of foreign officers in white uniforms standing with American airmen at Langley Field main terminal. View of radial engine running on a Boeing 247 aircraft. Men in truck loading cargo and baggage through open nose hatch of Boeing 247 aircraft. Airman closes and secures the nose hatch. View inside control tower. Operator gives pilot of Boeing 247 clearance to takeoff when ready. Scene changes to new setting and terrain. A Boeing 247 on takeoff roll with snow on the ground. Formations of Boeing P-26 airplanes in flight. Explosions below them in desert as they fly overhead. Two P-26s dive and drop bombs, respectively. Smoke rises from bomb explosions.
A film titled 'The Life and Death of The USS Hornet' dedicated to the workers of America's shipyards and war plants during World War II. The Capitol building in Washington DC. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt gathered at press conference to announce the bombing of Tokyo Japan by Doolittle Raid forces in April 1942. Reporters run out to phones and typewriters. A man at NBC microphone in 1943. The headlines of newspapers read 'Japs Murder Doolittle's Fliers'. American people in groups and families listen to radio broadcasts, gathered at work and in living rooms around radios to hear the radio news. They buy newspapers at newsstands. Headline of newspaper reads "Carrier Hornet was Shangri-La". Workers at shipyard, factories, machine shops. Men and women war workers of varying ages and races, including white, Japanese-American, and African-American seen welding, machining, and working to buld the ship and its parts. Scenes from the launching of USS Hornet CV-8 in December 14, 1940, with sponsor Annie Reid Knox at the launching.
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands on 26th of October, 1942 during World War II. U.S. aircraft take off from U.S. Navy USS Hornet (CV-8) carrier at dawn. Members of crew on U.S. carrier look through binoculars. Japanese bombers formation overhead. Gun crews of USS Hornet (CV-8) attack the Japanese aircraft. Japanese aircraft in flames crash. Flak bursts in sky. USS Hornet gets torpedoed and bombed heavily. USS Hornet burns. The crew abandons the USS Hornet. Members of the crew board rescue boats. USS Hornet being sunk by torpedo attacks at night. Wounded men transferred to other U.S. ships and taken ashore. New ships being launched from shipyards in United States.
U.S. troops in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Grader and dump truck on runway of Henderson Field which is being graded. Dump truck dumps load while grader works back and forth. Work stops while U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber taxis on the runway. Crew members sit on piles of landing mat sections for new runway as C-47 Skytrain transport takes off. B-17 Flying Fortress bomber taxis on runway. Runway being constructed, men sit on piles of mats in the foreground. Sections of mats being fitted together. Men hammer mats with nails.
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