A United States Army Air Corps Douglas XB-19 bomber, originally designated the XBLR-2. Side view from end of right wing of the experimental B-19 bomber aircraft parked on the runway with propellers spinning. XB-19 takes off and flies up over the airfield. Views of the XB-19 in flight, from the ground.
Events related to the Casablanca Conference. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated on lawn wearing civilian clothes. Several officers including U.S. Army Air Force Chief, General Henry H (Hap) Arnold, U. S. Admiral Ernest J King, U.S. Army General George C Marshall, British Admiral Sir Andrew B Cunningham, British Field Marshal Sir Alan Francis Brooke, British Lord Louis Mountbatten, British Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Harry Hopkins, advisor to President Roosevelt, in the background.
Events related to the Casablanca Conference. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated on lawn wearing civilian clothes. Several officers including General Henry H Arnold, Admiral Ernest J King, General George C Marshall, Admiral Sir Andrew B Cunningham, Sir Alan-Brooke, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Harry Hopkins in the background. Roosevelt and Churchill read documents. Churchill is smoking a cigar.
The Roosevelt family cottage on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada. Group of people on the lawn in front of the house. A car parked outside the main entrance. Flags flying from portico over the entrance. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt seated with friends and family on rocky shore of Herring Cove. Eleanor Roosevelt sitting on a rock above the President, who chats with Allison Dysart, Premier of New Brunswick, as they both light and smoke cigarettes. Mr. J.B. McNair, Attorney General of New Brunswick, also sits on the sand, with the President and the Premier. The president's mother, Sara Roosevelt, sitting with his son Franklin Roosevelt, Jr. and Curtis Dall. John Roosevelt talking to his sister, Anna Roosevelt Dall. Large group of local people gather to watch as photographers take pictures of the Roosevelt party. Later, the Roosevelts and their guests partake of an outdoor picnic from a buffet table set up and prepared by the staff from the Presidential yacht, USS Potomac.
Training of America's fliers, at start of World War 2. Brief scene of Congress in session. A Link trainer in motion at Randolph Field, Texas. Line of training planes with engines running, at the Advanced Flying School, Kelly Field, Texas. (Aircraft 33 & 34 are AT-6s, and the rest in the line-up are earlier BC-1s.) A Northrop A-17 taxiing on the tarmac, at March Field, California. Several views of B-17s taking off.
Documentary titled, ' Oil Is Blood ' on production and transportation of petroleum and its by products in United States. Crude oil in a pit. Man takes samples from the pit. View of derricks at an oil drilling site. Derricks at sea. Exteriors of a building near the derricks. Service station attendants, pumping gas and cleaning the windshield, on a 1942 Lincoln Continental convertible, at a "Tydol Flying A" gas station. Scenes of busy highways and plenty of fuel give way to empty roads, closed gas stations, and restricted hours for obtaining fuel, as it is rationed during World War 2. Views of persons obtaining ration stamps and books. Various gasoline ration books including the "A" books (allowing the smallest amounts) and "B", "C", and other books allowing larger rations to more essential users. Oil rig "roughnecks" inserting new sections of pipe and proceeding to drill. Closeup of a "gusher" before it is capped. Men filling railroad tank cars with petroleum products. A long train of tank cars pulled by a steam locomotive. Animated map illustrates the ocean shipping lanes that formally served as means to transport fuel and oil, before the German U-Boat threat made them too dangerous for general use. Drums of fuel and oil being loaded aboard a ship to supply the Allies during the war. A convoy of ships heading to the war zone of North Africa.
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