A United States Army Air Service (USAAS) Huff-Daland LB-1 light bomber aircraft in Michigan, United States. A pilot in a cockpit. The propellers spin. The aircraft taxis.
Refugee children, displaced children, and war orphan boys and girls arrive in New York harbor, United States during World War II. The European refugee children aboard the passenger ship Serpa Pinto as they arrive in New York to begin a new life after fleeing war and persecution in Europe. Children, including many Jewish children, from much of war torn Europe, including Poland, Czechoslovakia, Spain and Germany disembark from the ocean liner operated under the auspices of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM). A group of children poses for camera. Red Cross provides food and fresh milk to refugee children. The children eat the food.
Operation Cue (part of Operation Teapot) nuclear test preparations at Nevada test site in Nevada, United States. Views of Nevada site. A sign of civil defense and 'Operation Cue' written on a vehicle of civil defense. A woman exits the vehicle and enters the headquarter building of the 'Civil Defense Operations'. Interior: A Civil Defense staff member working. He talks to personnel. The Civil Defense staff member shows her prospective of entire lay out and models of the system. Men work on constructing shelters and structures. An engineer goes in a corner room of a basement. A man climbs down a power pole. Power poles, power lines and transformers are tested. Transformer substations are tested. Radio towers are tested. In a test house a radio transmitter is used for broadcasting. Liquid petroleum and natural gases are tested. All connections are checked. Installation of equipment is checked. A 18000 gallon supply tank is sprayed. A storage house on the test site.
Operation Cue nuclear bomb test preparations at Nevada test site in Nevada, United States. Types of houses to be tested include single story buildings without basement, two story buildings with basement, 8 inches concrete buildings reinforced by steel and single story buildings with walls and roof joined by steel nuts. 55 hundred foot line and a house similar to the one which had been tested. Men unload a truck. Mannequins are carried into the house. Mannequins lined up at the test site. Several men lining them up. One mannequin has no arms.
Operation Cue nuclear bomb test at Nevada test site in Nevada, United States. Packaged food in a container. A Civil Defense staff personnel puts food in a refrigerator. Food containers on racks. Food containers are arranged. Observers place the containers just below the ground level. The containers are covered with mud.
Operation Cue (part of Operation Teapot) nuclear test by the United States conducted at Nevada test site in the United States. Vehicles driven on a road early in the morning. Television equipment is hailed at the test site. Media persons and Civil Defense observers gather to study the results of a nuclear blast. Civil Defense personnel assemble with their equipment. A small group of Civil Defense volunteers occupy a trench close to the ground level. Media persons have coffee. Instructions are given on a loudspeaker. Personnel put on eye gear. A countdown starts. Atomic bomb explosion occurs. Test homes being blown away by explosion of a bomb. Power lines burst.
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