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Meeting of Committee for Hemisphere Defense in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Committee for Hemisphere Defense holds a meeting for Economic Solidarity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Members seated at the Conference table. Documents in front of the delegates. Delegate from Chile serves as President of the Committee. A speaker speaks during the meeting. Newspaper men gathered at the end of the room. They note down the speech. Cameramen take pictures. Sumner Welles and Ruiz Guinazu seated in the table.
Meeting of Committee for Hemisphere Defense and Economic Solidarity at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Committee for Hemisphere Defense and Economic Solidarity holds a meeting at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Members seated at the Conference table. Documents in front of the delegates. Chilean delegate as President of the Committee. Newspaper men gathered at the end of the room. Cameramen take pictures. Uruguayan Representative Guani reads newspaper. Senhor Aranha, Peruvian delegate, Ruiz Guinazu and Chilean delegate give their views on severance of relations with the Axis. The U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles seated in the conference. (World War II period).
United States President Franklin Roosevelt checks facts and figures about aid sent to Allied countries.
United States provides aid to Allies. United States President Franklin Roosevelt seated in his office. Lend Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius reports to President Roosevelt about the aid provided to her allies. Lend-Lease shipments prepared and shipped. Merchandise, tanks, planes sent to Soviet Union and Britain. Rail cars carry crates of machine tools made by Bullard Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. These crates are seen being loaded in a ship destined for the Soviet Union. A ship at sea. Smoke rises up from smokestack. (World War II period).
Canadian Mosquito Bomber and United States Army observation plane are demonstrated early in World War II
Canadian De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito aircraft is shown to the public for the first time, in Canada, early in World War 2. Air Force officers stand near the aircraft. British test pilot Geoffrey Raoul de Havilland Jr., son of the famed British aviation pioneer and aircraft designer, pilots the airplane in a demonstration flight. The plane taxis for takeoff. De Havilland circles and buzzes the field several times to demonstrate its speed and maneuverability. At one point, he feathers the right engine and demonstrates its excellent single-engine flight characteristics. Complete change of scene, to Wayne, Michigan, in the United States and a snow-covered air field where a Stinson Model 76 observation aircraft (registered NX27772) demonstrates its extreme short takeoff and steep climb capability.. Aerial view of the airplane maneuvering aloft and then landing in the snow, whereupon, it spins about in a 180 degree turn and immediately takes off, again, in very short distance and a steep climb. (Note: NX27772 was the final prototype for the L-5 Sentinel airplane, as it was named, when delivered to the U.S. Army.)
USS San Francisco (CA-38) docks in United States and Admiral King decorates the Commander of the cruiser.
United States cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38) returns home, after heroic engagement against Japanese forces in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, during which Admiral Callaghan, its skipper, was killed. Sailors aboard the ship. The heavy cruiser docks in United States. Lieutenant Commander Bruce McCandless, the Commander of the ship who replaced Callaghan and guided the ship through the rest of the battle and safely home, stands with his wife. Admiral King decorates McCandless with the Medal of Honor. Crew stands in the background. Admiral King shakes hands with the Commander. (World War II period).
Alaskan railroad re-opened by United States Army in World War 2, to carry supplies.
Supplies are carried by trains and trucks in Alaska. Ships unload food and supplies at Skagway, Alaska. Smoke rises from smokestack of the ship. Men unload the supplies. Train of the Yukon railroad, under operation by the United States Army is loaded with food and supplies for troops guarding arctic outposts in World War II. A Yukon Railroad train moves along railroad tracks. A sign reads "Whitehorse, Yukon" at the Whitehorse stop in Yukon territory of Canada. Truck on the new Alaska Truck Highway passes by with freight it received at Whitehorse.