U.S. Generals visit the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force General Carl Andrew Spaatz and U.S. Army General Omar Nelson Bradley visit the Liberty Bell. They touch the bell and smile. Philadelphia Mayor, Bernard Samuels,shows them inscribed names and a crack in the bell. The Generals pose with, an unidentified Major General, for a camera. Military officers, in a reviewing stand, rise to applaud the Generals. The American flag in the background.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt presents an American-made Destroyer Escort ship to France in Washington, United States during World War II. President Roosevelt reaches the navy yard in his open car. The officers salute the President. French Naval officers at the yard ceremony. The President presents the new American-made destroyer escort to the people of France, during the ceremony. The navy sailors on the ship's deck. President Roosevelt gives a speech. The President wishes luck to the French Sengalese. The navy sailors raises their rifles.
Destruction of ammunition by the army in United States. Piles of ammunition. Wooden cartoons of ammunition. A note on a cartoon reads "Issues prohibited". Soldiers unloading the cartoons of ammunition from a truck. An unfilled ammunition condition report. Authorized methods of ammunition destruction include dumping at sea, detonation or burning. Burning: ammunitions lying on a table. Ammunition to be burned includes bulk TNT (Tri Nitro Toluene), composition C-4, dynamite, black powder, solid propellants, primers, detonators, boosters, fuzes, small arms ammunition, pyrotechnics and hand grenades, photo flash bombs, hand grenades high explosive, rocket head and 240 mm projectile. Two soldiers reading a map. A soldier draws a circle using a compass. Burning site is one that is safely away from a public highway, habitation, railroad, and observation point. Two soldier working on a map on a table. One of them rolls down the map.
U.S. Army soldiers prepare for ammunition destruction in the United States. Two soldiers discussing a map. The two soldiers discuss while the others clear the ground. A bulldozer in the background. A soldier sets up a board which reads 'Stop demolition area obtain clearance'. A soldier stands on a check post. A soldier makes a phone call from a phone installed at the check post. A car and a truck in the background. Three army officers sit in an office. One officer passes on an ordinance safety manual to another officer. The manual titled 'ORD M 7-224'. The officer refers to the manual and writes on a piece of paper. An officer works on printing machine. A group of army officers has a meeting. One officer commands the group. The group discusses.
Ammunition destruction in the United States. Black powder cans arranged to form a pyramid. Soldiers come one by one and pick up a can. Two soldiers take a can in an open ground. One soldier opens the can. He spreads it on the ground to form a line. At the end of the line so formed the soldiers put some dry grass. Three soldiers standing near a barrack. A soldier then burns cotton and then all the soldiers move inside the barrack. All the black powder burns away.
U.S. Army soldiers prepare to destroy ammunitions in the United States. A soldier puts some ammunition on the ground. One soldier stands while another spreads black powder on the ground. Three soldiers standing near a barrack move inside. The ammunition burns away. A soldier attaches a wire to the spread black powder. Soldiers then move away and the black powder burns with huge flames.
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