Events related to the visit of President Franklin Roosevelt to a World War II warplane production plant in the United States. President Roosevelt's motorcade moves on road. Crowd gathered along streets wave as the convoy passes by. The motorcade drives through a huge warehouse. Stacked supplies in the warehouse. President in his open Lincoln car drives past a B-24 parked inside the plant. A group of sailors salutes the President as he passes. President talks to an officer in car.
Events related to the visit of President Franklin Roosevelt to a war plant in United States during World War II. President Roosevelt's motorcade moves on road. Crowd gathered along streets wave as the convoy passes by. The motorcade drives through a huge warehouse. Stacked supplies in the warehouse. President in his open Lincoln car drives past a B-24 parked inside the plant.
Events related to World War II. View of destroyed German planes inside a bombed factory. B-24 aircraft lands on runway. Aerial views of German Stuka dive bomber diving and dropping bombs. Flaming map of Europe. Scenes of Dunkirk, France. Stuka bombers British troop try to board boats.
San Severo Airfield in Italy, during World War 2. Map showing location of San Severo. U.S. personnel around parked B-24 Liberator aircraft. White outdoor tent canopies in front of White buildings (far in background). View from passenger automobile driving rapidly along nearly empty road lined with trees. View shifts to a village street as seen from overlooking building. Two horse carts move along the street and several pedestrians walk on sidewalk. Park surrounded by official-looking buildings. Man and woman ride, standing, in a horse-drawn cart. A busy outdoor marketplace, where several children pose for the camera. Numerous local people on side streets. Several boys pose closeup for the camera. View from open area, of street lined with apartment houses. Pedestrians on sidewalks and horse carts on the street, but no motor vehicles moving (one parked off the street). Words on door of building read '4th PHOTO. TECH. SQ,' (4th Photographic Technical Squadron). U.S. Army jeeps parked outside. Sign reads '90th P.W.R. Dispensary,' (identifying dispensary of the 90th Photographic Wing, Reconnaissance). Closeup of sign reading: "90th P.W.R. Dispensary, Sick Call 0830, American Military Personnel ---ONLY. Major Tom S. Shields, Wing Surgeon." Military ambulances parked outside the building. Another sign identifies a mess hall.
General Eisenhower confers with British Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory and British Air Chief Marshal, Sir Arthur Tedder, in front of a map of Europe on a wall. New York Post, June 6, 1944, headline reads "INVASION Smashing Inland." U.S. troops assault beach at Normandy on D-Day and several fall from enemy fire during World War II. German troops surrendering as Americans advance. Dead German soldier. Adolf Hitler sits in a room. B-24 bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, 2nd Air Division, 2nd Bomb Wing, 446th Bomb Group, in flight on mission over Germany. Bombs falling on target. View through gun camera of fighter strafing German aircraft on the ground and strafing a railroad train filled with ammunition, that explodes. Sun newspaper headline reads: 'Allies plunging deep into Reich.' U.S. troops move through grassy field. U.S. artillery crew fires M-114, 155mm Howitzer under camouflage net. New York World Telegram newspaper headline reads: 'Allies swarm across Rhine'. U.S. troops crossing the Ludendorff Bridge, at Remagen, Germany. View of dead victims at German concentration camp. Journal American newspaper headline reads: 'Mass surrender of foe underway'. German prisoners of war double-time march running along a road with hands held high in surrender. Emotion and distress show on face of very young German boy soldier as he unbuttons his coat. A German woman sits quietly in background. A mile long line of German prisoners march in a field. A Nazi Swastika flag burning on the ground.
Idled ships and cranes at damaged port of Yokahoma, Japan, seen right after end of hostilities in World War 2. Port facilities reduced to steel skeletons from bombing by USAAF in the war. Camera pans over the city from a high point of land. Ocean in background. Wide swaths of completely burned-out areas in the foreground. There is hardly any notable human activity. Scene changes completely to aerial view from aircraft flying overhead. Brief glimpse of a U.S. B-24 Liberator bomber flying below, close to the ground (probably preparing to land). Aerial view of airfield in distance.
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