The United States Army prepares itself during World War 1. Airplanes of the United States Army Air Service take off from a runway strip. Biplanes take off, one after the other. Hangars for the aircraft can be seen at distance. A city as seen from a plane flying low in the sky. The roads, buildings and houses of the city. Other planes flying in the sky.
The United States Navy prepares for battle during World War 1. United States naval warships during an exercise in sea. Fleet of ships sailing in sea. Huge cannons of the warships fire projectiles at enemy positions. Sailors at a naval base doing physical training exercises in a field. Artillery men imparted practical training at a mock battle at the camp. Sailors line up along artillery and point their rifles towards the target. Sailors in boats, they raise their oars before rowing the boats. Artillery on ships fire, swells formed in sea water due to firing. Fleet of U.S. warships in the sea. Smoke and explosion at a target, boat fired upon by ship's gun.
United States Presidential elections of 1948. A railway station in United States. Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate for U.S. Presidential elections arrives in a train. He meets people at the station terminal. He stands at the train door and addresses the crowd from train itself. On the train is written 'Dewey Victory Special'. A crowd gathers to hear his speech. Dewey along with his wife, Frances Hutt Dewey, waves at the crowd and moves inside the train.
United States Presidential elections of 1948. A huge crowd of supporters wait for the train 'Dewey Victory Special' at a decorated railway station. Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate for U.S. Presidential elections and his wife, Frances Hutt Dewey, arrive in a train. He addresses the crowd from the train. Women clap while listening to his speech. He and his wife wave hands towards their supporters, as their train departs from the station.
A meeting of Pan American Nations delegates at the Pan American Union headquarters in Washington DC (soon after becoming the OAS or Organization of American States). National flags of various participant nations at a partially constructed building. Officials and dignitaries address the assembly. An official lays a stone in the building as part of the ceremony. Audience listens to the address of speakers. Near end of clip is a brief, unrelated segment with an early United States Air Force helicopter model, small with an open cockpit, being flown in front of a McDonnell Aircraft Corporation building.
United States President Harry S. Truman arrives to receive Secretary of State George C. Marshall at the airport. President Truman shakes hands with and is greeted by officials. A chartered airplane with writing "The Independence" lands at the airstrip. From the plane descends General George C Marshall via a stairway marked "MATS" for Military Air Transport Service. President shakes hands with him and talks. President Truman and Secretary Marshall sit in the car of the U.S. President and then depart.
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