A 1946 re-enactment showing Dr. Albert Einstein's letter to U.S. President being typed on August 2, 1939, in Long Island, New York. A typist types Einstein's letter concerning atomic bomb to U.S. President Roosevelt. The letter references recent work by doctors Fermi and Szilard on producing a nuclear chain reaction, and its possible use as a weapon in an atomic bomb. He urges that the administration be watchful and ready for quick action on the subject.
Decoration of a technical sergeant of U.S. Army in Darmstadt, Olm Area soon after end of World War II in Europe. Soldiers lined up. An aircraft taxiing on a field. Commanding-General of 7th U.S. Army General Wade Haislip presents Congressional Medal of Honor to T/Sgt (Technical Sergeant) Charles H. Coolidge of Signal Mountain, Tennessee for outstanding duty with 141st Infantry, 36th Division the "Lost Battalion" in October 1944. Troops and Honor Guard parade along field.
Japanese pilots in Japan during World War II. Japanese pilots run and line up in front of an officer who gives rapid pep talk. Pilots run to aircraft. Pilots in full flight dress stand and shout instructions. Training aircraft take off and in flight.
Japanese fleet underway in the Pacific Ocean during Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II). Animated map of China. Japanese pilots being briefed at an airfield. Japanese planes take off and in flight. Japanese bombers bomb Luoyang and Xian. Smoke billows up from explosions.
Japanese and German Navy attack Allied ships underway during World War II. Japanese sailors on deck of ship at work. Japanese sailors on deck practice semaphore flag signal drills Men work at a gun on deck. Japanese Navy sailors row a boat along side the larger shipo. Flags being raised on ship. Scene changes to show German Navy personnel aboard a U-boat waving from on deck. Art on German U-boat conning tower shows a painted crocodile biting an umbrella. The German submarine underway in ocean. German sailors look through binoculars on deck. Allied freighter underway. Interiors of German submarine shows German navy personnel. Periscope view of Allied freighter. View from inside German submarine as it attacks the Allied freighter with torpedo. Three German Heinkel He 115 seaplanes in flight surveying wreckage from destroyed freighter.
Officials load sacks of mail from a truck, into a Boeing model 40 airplane at an airport in California. The pilot stands by the airplane, wearing a seat-pack parachute. The fuselage of airplane has logo of the State of California painted on it. Several cameras on tripods stand beside the tail of the airplane. Formations of U.S. Army DH-4 airplanes in flight over California.
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