U.S. nuclear submarine, USS Seawolf (SSN-575) in bay near Newport, Rhode Island. President Eisenhower standing on deck with group of Naval officers. The American flag and the President's ensign fly from the boat. President Eisenhower descends through a hatch. He greets members of the crew and tours the boat. He observes crewmen at their duty stations. He cuts a cake, with "Commander in Chief" written on it. The cook serves the cake. President Eisenhower dines in the Crew's Mess. With him are Chief Hospital Corpsman Milton W. Tucker, USN; Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty and Seaman Apprentice W.J. Dooling. The President climbs out of the submarine on to the deck.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses officials in Germany. German military aircraft in flight . Bombs falling on targets. German troops march through streets. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at a desk in his office, signs the Selective Service Training Act of 1940. Officials mix serial numbers in a glass container. President Roosevelt announces the serial numbers of the men drafted into the U.S. Army. A large crowd of civilians gathered on the streets await the announcement. Selected men are shown in all places and in all walks of life, in the United States, including an African American man. The men undergo a medical and physical checkup at the induction center to begin service as new military recruits. Those inducted receive basic training and begin tours of duty in the U.S. Army. (World War II period). Background music during recruitment scenes is a chorus singing "This is the Army Mr Jones" by Irving Berlin.
Chinese Military Mission at a house in Washington DC during World War II. Exteriors of a house used by Chinese Military Mission. Chinese flag flies from the building. Interiors show Chinese officers at desk, Lieutenant General Hsiung Shih Fei and Captain M. H. Robert Lee seated. Group at tea table includes Colonel Wen-Tehih Tesi, Lieutenant General Hsiung Shih Fei, Major Tuh-Foo Chiang, and Captain M. H. Robert Lee.
White House in Washington DC, United States. A cat sits. Side view of White House. Guard walks along a road. Cars parked outside the White House.
Former U.S. Ambassador to UK, Joseph Kennedy, records a speech in Washington DC., United States during World War II. He speaks about the remarkable morale and courage of the British people and questions whether the Germans are just as tough. He says a prediction, now, of England's defeat, would be senseless.
First color television broadcast from Columbia Broadcasting Systems. Color Television Monitor Tube photographed at the National Guard Armory in Washington DC. Television broadcast shows "Patty Painter," (real name Patricia Stinnette) displaying colored pieces of cloth. (Note: Reportedly, the U.S. Naval photographic unit that did these tests tried to record color images from all three of the proposed color systems at the time: the CBS field-sequential system, RCA's dot-sequential system and CTI's line-sequential system.)
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