Opening slate reads: "Quebec Conference August 1943." The English battleship, Prince of Wales, is seen in fog off the Coast of Newfoundland, in August 1941. View of sailor on fore-deck of the British ship. View inside engine room of the ship where sailor manipulates her power. Closeup of engine crankshaft stopping as she drops anchor in Placentia Bay. View of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, greeting U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the Prince of Wales. He proffers a letter to the President, from the King of England. View of Roosevelt and Churchill seated on deck with their respective military leaders standing behind them. Admiral Ernest King, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations converses with U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George Marshall, as they stand behind Churchill and Roosevelt. Wider camera view shows the larger military entourage accompanying the Prime Minister and the President. Glimpse of prisoners and enslaved workers taken by Nazi Germans in Europe. Glimpse of bombs falling from an airplane. Classic film views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. Bombs exploding along "Battleship Row." Heavy smoke rising from the bombed ships. The USS Arizona tilted heavily and burning. Camera pans along the path of destruction, as the voice of President Roosevelt is heard in the background, asking the Congress to declare that the Japanese attack created a state of War between the United States and the Japanese Empire. View of President Roosevelt speaking to the U.S. Congress. Seated behind him are Vice-President Henry Wallace and Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn. Glimpse of Congress members applauding. Change of scene shows President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting in Washington, DC, in December of 1941, during World War 2. Views of war preparations in the United States, including the building of new war production plants and facilities. A large steel ingot being forged into an artillery gun barrel. Machinist at work turning a gun barrel on a lathe in a munitions factory. Views of manufacturing plants in operation and steel being made. A railroad train carrying new Army trucks. Another meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. June, 1942. Standing behind them is President Roosevelt's special assistant, Harry Hopkins, a British naval officer, and an American navy Captain. American soldiers boarding a troop ship, and closeups of them as they enter the ship, looking out of portholes, and waving from the ship's deck. Glimpse of Washington Monument and its image in the reflecting pool in Washington DC. Closeup of a book entitled, "Time Table for Invasion." General George Marshall with several of his generals doing preliminary planning. Series of scenes involving senior military officers engaged in war planning. A convoy of warships is seen at sea during the Operation Torch Allied invasion of French North Africa during 8–16 November, 1942. Views of Allied Navy ship guns firing. Allied troops riding in landing craft, and advancing from beached craft on shore of Algiers. Aerial view of a flight of Douglas Dauntless bombers in formation. "Bombs away" view from Allied airplane dropping bombs. Allied troops firing camouflaged antiaircraft guns from sandy positions near shore. Enemy shells or bombs exploding nearby. Two U.S. Army soldiers holding a document in French entitled, "Message from the President of the United States.
Horse-drawn covered wagons and men on horseback pass through mountain region in the United States. Wagons and men pass on field.
American flag at half mast. Under a portrait of former President Woodrow Wilson in the Cabinet Room at the White House, Bess Truman looks on as Harry S Truman takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice Harlan F Stone.
Daytime exterior views of the U.S. Capitol building and exterior of the White House in Washington DC. President Franklin D Roosevelt at his desk in the White House. He appears to be writing correspondence and affixing a seal to written documents.
Exterior of Supreme Court building in Washington DC. View of another building at a busy street intersection. Governor W I Meyers, administrator of the Farm Credit Administration (FCA), poses in front of the FCA Building, formerly known as the Southern Railway Building.
U.S. Air Force McDonnell-Douglas F-4C Phantom II fighter aircraft, tail number 63-3688, takes off away from the camera. A Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter jet takes off toward the camera . F-105 aircraft dives over dirt target area and another makes high speed low pass over encampment in snow, leaving cloud of condensation behind. An F-105 climbing out at high speed. Another F-105 flies low over an Army M113A2 Armored Personnel Carrier driven on road in desert. Glimpse of an F-101 Voodoo aircraft maneuvering overhead. View from inside reconnaissance aircraft making a low level night flight. Camera on aircraft. Photo interpreters in control room. A C-130 lands on a dirt runway. Fully armed combat troops rush out of the aircraft. Aerial view of C-133 Cargomaster airplanes operating on dirt airfield. One takes off, raising a cloud of red dust, and maintains low, flat, flight path, with very little rate of climb. Views of F-105 aircraft in formations and one flying over snow capped mountains. Several C-130 Cargo aircraft flying in trail formation, low over jungle terrain. Closeup top view of an F-105 hooked up to a refueling tanker aircraft. Next, it is seen dropping away from the refueling boom. Armorers loading tactical aircraft with missiles, bombs, and rockets. Bombs and rockets mounted beneath wings of an F-105 and an F-4 aircraft in flight. Ground crews tending to F-101 Voodoo aircraft in a cold arctic environment. An F-100 aircraft illuminated by the sun while in flight. A pair of F-4 aircraft in flight. A formation flight of three F-105 aircraft flying over an island fort in the sea.
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