Demonstration of the Japanese Paper Balloon Bomb or fire balloon used to attempt attack on North America during World War II. United States Navy personnel demonstrates connections of the blow out plugs in a Japanese paper balloon or fire balloon . Animation depicts: rise up and descend of the balloon in air as the blow out plugs are released and plugged in. Personnel explains the diagram showing bomb mechanism of battery, starter fuse, blowout switch, fuse leads, blow out plugs and aneroid.
Demonstration of the Japanese Paper Balloon or fire balloon bomb used for attempted attack on North America during World War II. United States Navy personnel demonstrates the set up of the central payload suspended using a T-hook from the bottom center of the balancing ring in a Japanese paper balloon bomb or fire balloon. He demonstrates the release of the pay loads. He explains the diagram showing mechanism and release of the pay loads. Animation depicts: the rise and descend of the balloon in air as the incendiaries and the payloads are dropped one by one from the ring. The balloon in flight over the field and mountains in the Pacific Theater.
Representatives of nations gathered for Potsdam Conference at Schloss Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. Prime Minster of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill,President of the United States Harry S. Truman and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin walk towards the conference building. Officers escort them. Representatives pose as the photographers take pictures. Trees seen in the background.
Representatives of Allied nations gathered for Potsdam Conference at Schloss Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. Prime Minster of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill,President of the United States Harry S Truman and Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin seated at the Cecilienh of garden for the Potsdam Conference.
Representatives of Allied nations gathered for Potsdam Conference at Schloss Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov and staff enter building. President of the United States Harry S. Truman ,Prime Minster of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill and Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin shake hands as they pose for the photographers in front of the doorway. They enter the building.
Representatives of Allied nations gathered for Potsdam Conference at Schloss Cecilienhof Palace (Im Neuen Garten, 14469 Potsdam, Germany) in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. Interiors of the conference room. United States Secretary of States James Francis Byrnes speaks with Minister of War, Anthony Eden of Great Britain. He shakes hands with other representatives. Byrnes takes his seat at conference table. Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov enters and shake hands with Byrnes and staff. Representatives take their seats around the conference table. Document files kept on the table in front of them.