Coast Guard cutter 'Point Grey' in open waters in Vietnam. The crew of the boat stands on the deck. USCG (United States Coast Guard) R. Mitchell at the wheel in the wheelhouse. Lieutenant Junior Grade Rozoski stands in the background. Two men cover a 50 caliber machine gun on the craft. The craft underway at a high speed. Coastline in the background. Captain John T. Shepherd fires a 45 caliber submachine gun. Two crewmen stand by. A Swift Boat underway. A PCF-4 boat underway. A small junk boat passes by. The Commanding Officer Lieutenant Bitner talks with Mr. Baldwin of New York Times.
Antarctic Expedition of U.S. Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Total darkness for six months on the Antarctic Pole. Two men stand in a room in the camp area named 'Little America'. One man wears a thick coat. They read the difference of the temperatures between the New York City and Little America. A difference of 168 degrees is noted between the temperatures of two places. A provision storehouse. A man walks through a corridor built of snow to the store house. He takes out a food box. Sled dogs are dressed in warm clothes. Men seated around a table and dress the dogs.
The United States of America in 1917. A huge crowd on the streets of a city in the United States. A motorcade proceeds on a street, past official looking buildings. People on both sides of the street wave U.S. flags and cheer. French General Joseph Joffre, accompanied by officials, makes his way through a crowd (likely New York City on "Joffre Day," May 11, 1917). A large number of persons surrounding them, wave flags. Scene changes to the dome of the United States Capitol building in Washington DC. People outside the building. A Ford motor car arrives. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, with officials. Henry Ford and Speaker of the House, Congressman James Beauchamp Clark ("Champ") seen seated and talking on a balcony of the United States Capitol building. Officials and members of the Ford party come down the steps of the Capitol and pose for pictures. Among them is Thomas Edison who shakes hands with Congressman Clark. The dignitaries leave in an automobile. Next scene shows suffrage and pacifist leader Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin, (the first woman congressional representative in the United States) holding flowers, with other women suffragists (also called suffragettes) in a carriage. Policemen maintain order among a crowd of demonstrators outside the Capitol. Two mounted policemen begin to urge demonstrators away from the building.
American soldiers of the U.S. 90th Infantry Division, walking atop captured Fort Obergentringen, Near Thionville, on the west side of the Moselle River, in World War 2. Next, the Fort's German Krupp 105mm guns are seen firing numerous shells at German positions in Thionville, east of the river. American soldiers with binoculars observe the shell strikes from the fort. Smoke rising from the shelling. [Note: A September 17, 1944 wireless report about the fort's capture , to the New York Times, by Frederick Grahamby, stated that "The fort's name is Gingringen and from 1870 to 1919 it belonged to Germany." However, it is actually Fort Obergentringen (Fort Guentrange) on the hills of Guentrange, overlooking Thionville, and built in 1899.]
U.S. Ambassador to France, Jefferson Caffery occupies the U.S. Embassy in Paris, following its liberation from German occupation in World War 2. A sign on the entrance gate to a building reads 'Rue De La Paix' and another sign reads 'Londres - New York'. The U.S. flag on the American Embassy building. Two guards with the U.S. flag in one of the balconies of the building. Two men look at the guards from another balcony of the building. Two American Military Police open the gates of the U.S. Embassy. U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery with other officials enters through the gates of the building and stands on a path. The officials hold their hats in their hands. American Military Police lined up on the sides of the path. 'MP' written on the helmets of the guards. The U.S. flag on a pole in a courtyard. The officials walk past the guards.
Pope Pius XII after his recovery from cerebral hemorrhage in Vatican City, Rome. Pope Pius XII greets and addresses group of pilgrims from a balcony in the Vatican. Archbishop of New York Francis Cardinal Spellman visits to greet Pope Pius XII. Papal Swiss Guards in uniform. After that Pope Pius XII falls due to cerebral hemorrhage.
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