President Franklin D Roosevelt and Chief of the Army Air Corps Major General H. H. Arnold seated in a car. Car stops in front of XB-15 bomber, then car pulls away. Views of U.S. Navy Consolidated PB2Y Coronado Flying Boat (XPB-2Y1) taxis and takes off from water.
K D Munro working in emergency generator room of USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Aircraft Carrier of the U.S. Navy, checking gauzes faces panels with various gauzes. Munro checking gauzes, writing down information. Knob on dial being changed. Hand moves in and out of scene to check temperatures. Face of Munro while checking dials and gauzes. Gauzes showing black and white needle. Gauze with black and white needle somewhat apart. Fahrenheit with lubricant oil from engine. Panel board containing seven gauzes, varied sizes. Looking down over hand of Munro as he writes information into a log sheet. General view of flight deck area, showing a DC firefighting crew. Pouring water on the plane. Some planes burning in the background. Fire is now contained on the after part of the flight deck. DD is alongside. Port side aft assisting the deck crew in fighting the fire. Large amount of smoke still rises from the flight deck area in the background at port side. Tilly crane is seen moving across the deck, comes to a stop. UH-2A aircraft on deck. SH-3A helicopter coming in for a landing. It touches down. Men running to the side of the helicopter. Firefighters fighting the fire. Large group of mixed aircraft parked in the safety area. DC crews, attempting to put out the fire along the aircraft on the after part of the flight deck. Several view of CH-2A and SH-3A and CH-53A helicopters touching down on the flight deck. Large groups of men running up to the helicopters.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the U.S. Congress in his "Four Freedoms" speech during the State of the Union address on January 6, 1941, in Washington DC, United States. During his address, various war production worker and war materiel manufacturing images are also shown (before the entry of America into World War 2, but during lend-lease production): Tanks, airplanes and flying boat aircraft are shown. Workers at war production factories making artillery shells and munitions. Scenes at a manufacturing plant building bomber aircraft warplanes during World War 2. They appear to be B-25 Mitchell bombers. Workers work installing plexiglass nose cone gunner shield. They assemble various parts of airplanes. Scenes of biplane aircraft in formation and diving. Large, flat landing barge filled with American soldiers approaches a landing area.
The robot weather station nick named 'Grass Hopper' tested in Washington D.C. Scientists work on a field. Robot lying on the field as it stands up on its own. It's fan rotates. Plate on model reads 'An/GMT-CXG-IJ, Model 2, Serial No. 2', and gives other information. Code sent by it being recorded on a tape recorder.
Two astronauts of the "Space Race," Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov and U.S. astronaut John Hershel Glenn Junior meet for the first time in Washington D.C. Russian Cosmonaut Gherman Titov and American astronaut John Hershel Glenn Junior attend a seminar on space being conducted by the International Council of the Scientific Union. Glenn and Titov register for the seminar inside the National Academy of Sciences (2101 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20418, United States). The two astronauts visit Washington Monument (2 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States) and Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002, United States). Other officers accompany them.
United States soldiers stand at Parade Rest with their rifles, along the side of the street as the funeral cortege of President Franklin D. Roosevelt approaches. A "V" formation of Washington, DC motorcycle police approach and pass spectators lining the sidewalk. A jeep displaying the flag of the Military District of Washington and the two-star flag of its Commander, Major General Charles Fullington Thompson, who is riding in the back with a Marine officer and a Naval officer. View of large formation of military aircraft flying overhead, seen above trees. The U.S. Marine band, marching (but not playing). U.S. Naval Academy cadets marching with shouldered arms, wearing dress blues and white caps and leggings. The Washington Monument (2 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States 2 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States) in the background. A group of U.S. Naval officers watching with other spectators from sidewalk. Soldiers in leggings, marching. A Navy brass band. (World War II period).
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