The launching of Le Redoubtable submarine in Cherbourg, France. French nuclear powered submarine ' Le Redoubtable' is ready for its launch. President of French Republic Charles De Gaulle presses a button and launches the submarine. The submarine underway at sea.
Pollution alongside Anacostia River in Washington DC. Garbage in a field alongside the river bank. Boats docked at sea in the background. A bridge across the river. Garbage on mud along a shore of the river.
Paper print. Early motion picture made in the United States. Dramatization depicts: men and women in house, talking. Man holding a document shares good news. Next scene is at a dock as the man boards a large masted sailing ship along with others. They work aboard ship. The ship takes on water and sailors and captain leave in a rescue rowboat or tender, as man and woman remain on ship. They build a raft and are seen at sea. They make it safely to shore, by large rocks. The woman is captured by renegade sailors and placed in their boat. Her companion saves her while the renegades are asleep, and rows her away to safety aboard a passing ship. Back home again, everyone celebrates the birth of a baby.
A carrier aircraft launched by a steam catapult at sea in the United States. A U.S. Navy carrier aircraft taxis on a deck. Men hook the launch bar of the carrier aircraft to the steam catapult shuttle just before the launch. The aircraft takes off.
German rocket pioneer, Gerhard Zucker, attempting to develop postal rockets in the 1930s. Location is Wadden Sea off Cuxhaven, on April 9, 1933, where Zucker follows Nazi Sturmabteilung (also called SA or Stormtroopers) carrying the mail rocket across wet sands. The rocket is set up on a launch stand. Zucker and an assistant ignite the 8 side rockets and the mail rocket takes off. It noses up and loops over backwards, falling to the sand. German Stormtroopers lift up the damaged device. Next, is seen a later, more modern, rocket trial ending in failure. Two German engineers display a model similar to the pulse-jet-powered "buzz bomb" (V-1) employed by the Nazis in World War 2. A brief glimpse of similar American machine on sand flat, as narrator states German acknowledgement of knowledge gleaned from Dr. Robert Goddard's work. A German V-1 flying bomb (aka Doodle Bug) being launched in 1944, during World War 2. View of British houses of Parliament, London, England; an air raid shelter sign in City of Westminster. Londoners waiting out a raid in the shelter. Scenes of fire and destruction during German bombing of London, as narrator speaks about the more advanced German V-2 ballistic missiles employed later in the war. Londoners trudging through debris amongst bombed out buildings. Change of scene to U.S. infantry and armor advancing deep into Germany. Narrator refers to them overrunning rocket bases and other vital war-making facilities, near the end of the war. Glimpse of large number of German prisoners of war. Documents of military surrender being signed by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, in Berlin, May 8, 1945. Closeup of Keitel. Scenes of American forces operating in Pacific theater. Aerial view of atomic bomb explosion. Japanese surrender ceremony on September 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri. U.S. soldiers and other service personnel return home and greeting loved ones at end of war. Aerial view of Pentagon building and surrounding area in Arlington Virginia near Washington DC. U.S. troops boarding a ship in San Francisco, bound for war again, this time in Korea (1950).
American servicemen are kept informed through newspaper and radio telecasts in the United States. A man operates a recording machine and records the interview of an officer. Printing of Stars and Stripes newspaper. A truck loaded with bundles of newspaper moves through streets. Soldiers aboard a ship underway at sea read a newspaper. They listen to the radio. A man operates a recording device at a American Forces Radio and Television Station. American military men watch television shows. Newspapermen discuss news material. Broadcast technical specialists operate devices at a station.
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