Deck edge lined with crew members watching air show on USS Constellation (CV-64) in the Republic of China (Taiwan). VADM (Vice Admiral) Thomas Moorer, Republic of China President Chiang Kai-shek and party view airs show. Chiang Kai-shek, Madam Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling) with VADM Moorer and party watch air show. Two aircraft in flight fire rockets. Hits made on water. A-4B and three F-8C planes in flight.
Mayor of New York Fiorello LaGuardia addressing striking members of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (I.B.E.W.) outside New York City Hall. The striking workers carry posters and placards supporting liberal working hours and conditions. 1937.
Political leaders arriving for a conference at the White House in Washington DC. Senator (and future U.S. President) Lyndon B. Johnson, then Senate Majority leader, emerges from a car along with Mississippi Senator James Oliver Eastland. Georgia Senator Walter F. George, then President pro tempore of the Senate arrives and emerges from a car. The officials greet and welcome the leaders while press photographers take photos. The leaders talk with each other. View of the White House. After the meeting they emerge. Senator J. William Fulbright and Senator Albert Gore, Sr., seen among them. They address a press conference.
U.S. military technical report titled "Review of Guided Missiles-Guided Bomb GB-1". A GB-1 suspended for display. A B-17 Bomber of the U.S. Army Air Corps takes off with a GB-1 attached. Launching of GB-1. It follows a long aerial path and then hits the target. (World War II period).
A review of remote controlled weapons of the U.S. Army Air Force. A worker replaces cap of a bomb by a tail section. Smoke flares attached with this tail section. Bomb is placed on a cart and dragged towards a B-25 bomber aircraft of the U.S. Army Air Force. Operators work on instruments to observe the glide of the bomb through a lower gun turret well. Bomb dropped traverses towards its target on ground (World War II period).
A German factory destroyed by bombing of Allied bombers during World War II. A signboard saying 'Deutsche Star Kugelhalter Ges. m.b.H' (of Schweinfurt Germany). The chimney of the wrecked factory with painted letters 'F & S'. Factory premises destroyed by bombing, remains are ruin and rubble. The bent girders have sprung out due to explosions.
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