Wrecked vehicles in France during World War II. Damaged civilian cars as American soldiers and French partisans look at the cars. A building gaily decorated with American, British and French flags. American soldiers loaded onto trucks and on foot as they move past the civilians. French women wave at the American soldiers.
U.S. State Department in Washington D.C., United States. Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff General Omar Bradley talks to other officers. U.S. Secretary of Defense talks to an officer. A French General comes out of a building as he smiles. The French General and a British official arrives at the U.S. State Department in Washington D.C.
United States President Harry S. Truman addresses the nation from White House in Washington D.C., United States. U.S. President Truman at a desk in the White House as he addresses the nation over national radio. The President says that war is not inevitable (Korean War period). President Truman says that they will try their best to avoid general war but will not accept appeasement. A map of United States show aircraft in flight over Korea. President Truman talks about the threat of Communist aggression in Europe and Asia. Allied soldiers march. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, French representative Robert Schuman and British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin at NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). A naval port with oil barrels and supply bags lined up. The United Nations Security Council meeting.
United States 82nd Airborne Division Army soldiers march in Victory Parade in New York City to celebrate the World War II victory. Paratroopers march up New York 5th Avenue past a large crowd in a street in New York. Paratroopers carry American flags as they march on Fifth Avenue. Aircraft in flight during the parade. People shower ribbons and ticker tape on the marching U.S. Army soldiers. Soldiers drive past the crowd in jeeps. A sign on a vehicle reads 'Georgie Patton'. Police hold back the happy crowd. A disabled soldier in a wheelchair. A dog walks along the marching soldiers. United States flags and British flag. Dignitaries at the review stand including New York Mayor William O'Dwyer. Some ambient sound and crowd noise heard.
Missile development and build up facilities at Vandenberg Aerospace Air Force base in California, United States. Atlas Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on a launch pad at the air base. Airmen around the Atlas missile. Shrouded Atlas missile on a trailer as it drives past a sign that reads ' Vandenberg Air Force Base, Pine Canyon gate ¼ mile ' . Atlas checkout building as airmen work on the missile. Thor intermediate range ballistic missile raised on an a launch pad. Officers talk on the launch pad of Thor missile. U.S. and British RAF airmen work around the missile. Atlas missile on the launch pad. Thor Agena missile being launched. Scene shifts to explosion of Hydrogen bomb in test at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, in 1952.
Map shows coast of Europe with discussion of various places for a possible Allied invasion of France during World War 2. Normandy was chosen. German coastal defenses on English Channel and Atlantic shore (Atlantic Wall). German officers inspect defenses. Map highlights Cherbourgh, Le Havre, and Caen in Normandy. American workers building war machinery in defense plants and shipyards. Huge numbers of workers are seen in the yard of a U.S. defense plant. View inside a U.S. factory where numerous M3 Lee tanks are being manufactured on production lines during 1941-42. A welder at work. A woman using a saw and many other workers in a busy machine shop. B-17 bombers being built in a Boeing factory. Liberty ships under construction at a shipyard. A lookout watching the skies above a city, for enemy aircraft. A man and woman working together on a plumbing job. British women in Army uniforms working with typewriters. An American woman driving a forklift and loading a piece of ordnance on a railroad freight car. A rail yard filled with stream locomotives and freight trains. A line of trucks carrying war time cargoes. An army truck being loaded into the hold of a cargo ship. Ships underway in a harbor.
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