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U.S. Navy CVL, Baltimore class CA, DD, Iowa class BB and CV underway during air attack, flak in sky in the Pacific Ocean
U.S. Navy's fleet task force under Japanese air attack in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. CVL (light aircraft carrier) underway. Iowa class BB (battleship) underway. CB (large cruiser) underway. Baltimore class CA (Cruiser), DD (destroyer) and Iowa class BB (Battleship) underway during air attack, much flak seen in the sky. Japanese kamikaze suicide plane dives toward CV (aircraft carrier). Explosion seen in water, large splash seen near unidentified ship on horizon.
Establishment of Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and its first launch of a ballistic missile.
Restrospective of the 1954 search for a suitable site for U.S. Air Force testing of ballistic missiles. Coastal area with ocean in the background. Officials look over charts, maps, photographs as they select the site for Vandenberg Air Force Base. In January, 1958, view of building with a sign that reads ' Headquarters, First Missile Division, Strategic Air Command, Vandenberg Air Force Base' Entrance of the headquarters as Major General David Wade walks out. U.S. Air Force officers and airmen attend missile training classes. Airmen work on assembly of Thor missiles . U.S. Air Force officers and airmen operate missile launch consoles in a launch control center. November, 1958, Thor intermediate range missile on a trailer being delivered to Vandenberg Air Force Base. Trailer backs up to the launch pad. December, 16, 1958, the Thor missile on launch pad venting gases. U.S. Air Forces officers at a launch console. The Thor missile is launched. RAF airmen watch missile in flight.
Detective attacked by suspect, police arrest burglary suspect.
Written text introduction by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Various early 1960s cars in parking lot outside a Montgomery Ward store. Police detective seen through car window drinks coffee, puts his coffee under a police CB radio. Man walking as seen in rear view mirror. Detective approaches man as he pauses to open his car's door. Officer arrests the man for burglary. Handcuffs being put on hands. Man hitting officer over the head with handcuffed hands. View of officer on pavement with blood on forehead. Handcuffed hands opening car door and man entering car. Tire of car spinning on pavement to get away. Host at podium speaks to audience, saying "making an arrest is the most dangerous job in law enforcement." In Hyattsville, MD, a police car drives at night, passing by the Lustine auto dealer at 5710 Baltimore Avenue. Two police officers talk inside car, saying "no news is good news." Passing by Bird n' burger restaurant in Hyattsville. Police car passes by Fields Buick auto dealer (5323 Baltimore Avenue Hyattsville, MD). Policeman reading arrest warrant using flashlight in car. Policeman uses telephone inside car, saying to dispatcher, "Car 21, going 10-6, investigating suspicious vehicle." White Pontiac Prince George's County police car pulling up to Bird n' Burger restaurant in Hyattsville. Police exit vehicle with guns drawn. Policeman saying “You are under arrest”. Man puts up his hands, turns around slowly, takes two steps backwards, leans against car and spread legs way up and back. Policeman frisks the arrested man and confiscates a handgun. Policeman puts handcuffs on suspect as his police partner observes while holding a gun for safety. Gun found on suspect removed by police. Close up of policeman locking handcuffs. Policeman searches inside car. Policeman’s badge shows the Prince George’s County, MD coat of arms. Police closing car trunk and walking handcuffed suspect into police car.
President Eisenhower signs a bill that sends wheat to famine stricken Pakistan.
President Eisenhower signs a bill that sends million tons of surplus wheat to famine stricken Pakistan. Sign reads 'Wheat for Pakistan from the US'. Grains poured out into containers aboard a ship at Baltimore. Church organization men and 4-H clubs collect dried milk for needy children of the world. Women and children drink milk.
Cuban revolutionaries Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Raul Castro, and Camilo Cienfuegos advance towards Havana.
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara attack Havana. The Presidential Palace in Havana, Cuba. A soldier keeps vigil from the roof. President Fulgencio Batista with the press and other dignitaries in the palace. Batista's soldiers atop and near tanks. A Batista's Chief of Staff General Francisco Tabernilla talks to the soldiers. The bazooka teams prepare to advance. Fidel Castro seen recording his broadcast for the rebel radio in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. Close up view of a reel to reel tape player running. 1958: Rebels prepare arms and ammunition. Close up views of Che Guevara. Heads of other major revolutionary fronts meet in Caracas. The rebels advance towards Havana. A rebel fires a rocket, an explosion on a hill. The rebels climb uphill and take cover. They jump over fallen trees and across the hills. Batista government Air Force planes drop bombs and fire at the rebels. Explosions due to the bombardments. A man fires a machine gun, while another fires at the aircraft. They fire in sitting and prone position. Castro revolutionary men attack houses on the outskirts of Santa Clara. Batista's men surrender. December 1958: The final assault. The rebels near a building. A large crowd gathered outside the National Guard Police Section. Guevara's men march in a single file on the streets. The Air Force planes continue bombardment. Soldiers in trucks. Townspeople flee to shelters. Explosion due to bombardment. Aircraft in flight. Cars on the road. Women and children take refuge. A doctor checks wounded civilians lying on beds. Women rebels with rifles. Women welcome and greet Che Guevara. Top rebel commander Camilo Cienfuegos among others. Rebels on a building roof. A man buries a relative. Fidel Castro talks to the rebels during a strategy meeting. Fidel Castro's brother, Raul Castro, drinks from a cup. Rebels and civilians in a Willys jeep. A large crowd gathered outside a building around same time that Batista flees Cuba.
The Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II
Scenes filmed by Navy and Marine combat photographers, of the Battle for Iwo Jima, in February and March, 1944, during World War 2. View from a boat offshore, of Mount Suribachi, on the Island of Iwo Jima. Warships of the U.S. 5th Fleet attack with naval gunfire, as landing craft manuever near shore. U.S. Marines aboard Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTs) head for the beach, with the heavy cruiser, USS Baltimore (CA-68) in the background. U.S. Carrier-based Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft drops bombs on Mount Suribachi. Landing craft arriving at a fairly level area of beach. U.S. marines moving cautiously on the beachhead. The USS Baltimore and a Fletcher class destroyer offshore in background. Marines hunkered down with smoke rising near them, and then moving forward again, through the black sands. Closeup of a marine with flame thrower. Several U.S. Chance Vought F4U Corsair aircraft fly overhead, dropping bombs on the mountain. Marines continue to move forward, under constant fire from Japanese small arms. A heavy landing craft Infantry, LCI(H) moves toward shore in background. A DUKW ("Duck") coming ashore. Marines using a crane to offload a 105mm howitzer from a landing craft. As they raise the gun, the landing craft moves away and marines Hook the howitzer to a DUKW to help move it. Next, marines are seen setting up two 105s on the beachhead and firing them. Marines with more artillery pieces stacked on the beachhead. A gunboat, LCI (G), firing from close to the shore behind them. Marines digging in sand that the narrator calls the floor of an active volcano. Smoking sulphur gases are seen rising behind them. The USS Baltimore firing her guns from close to shore. Machine gun tracer rounds crossing the beachhead, as Naval gunfire resumes from offshore. Marines crawling and then occasionally sprinting forward across the sand dunes. (One carries a stretcher.) Four marines carrying one wounded back to the beachhead, on a stretcher. Two marines carry another between them. Marines scrambling over brush and rough ground. View from hillside of marines climbing up from below, as shell bursts only a few yards away. Scene shifts to later in the battle for Iwo Jima. A catapillar tractor is parked near bodies of Japanese soldiers strewn across the landscape. (Narrator notes that more than 14 thousand such dead had been counted by March 6, 1944.) Finally, the iconic moving images of U.S. marines raising the American flag over Mount Suribachi.
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