Rear view of a car in President Franklin Roosevelt's motorcade driving along the flight line at Hickam Field, Honolulu, Hawaii, during World War 2. Several C-54 aircraft are seen (Navy designation R5D). President's The President sits with Admiral Chester Nimitz, in the back seat of an open 1942 Packard convertible motorcar. (It displays private use "A" gas ration stamp, the most restrictive, on its windshield.) Medics carry a wounded soldier, on a litter,past the car, and the President shakes his hand. A new scene shows the President's VC-54C airplane (Sacred Cow) parked in front of the air base terminal building, which it topped by a sign reading: "Aloha Air Transport Command." Change of scene shows spectators filling the lower level and porch of a building at the U.S. Naval hospital, Alea Heights. Next the President's car is seen surrounded by hospital staff in formation to honor him. Nurses in white stand at attention on the ground, and a large formation of sailors stand at attention on a porch above.
Events related to the Casablanca Conference. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated on lawn wearing civilian clothes. Several officers including U.S. Army Air Force Chief, General Henry H (Hap) Arnold, U. S. Admiral Ernest J King, U.S. Army General George C Marshall, British Admiral Sir Andrew B Cunningham, British Field Marshal Sir Alan Francis Brooke, British Lord Louis Mountbatten, British Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Harry Hopkins, advisor to President Roosevelt, in the background.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, together with his sons, sailing the schooner, Sewanna, in waters off New Brunswick, Canada. The Presidential yacht, Potomac, is seen anchored in the bay. Another support boat is seen cruising the bay.
American 8th Air Force fighter operations in Germany during World War II. Pilot Lieutenant C D Henry of 338th Squadron in action. Aerial gun camera footage of American aircraft strafing German railroad train moving on ground. Fighter plane in action and attacking a German airplane.
Flight deck operations aboard USS Ranger underway in the Pacific Ocean during the Vietnam War. U.S. Navy A4D Skyhawk touching down and taxiing on the deck. U.S. Navy F8U Crusader making arrested landing. The F8U aircraft touching down for the arrested landing.
The Four Power Paris Summit in Paris, France after the 1960 U-2 incident. Wreckage of a United States Air Force Lockheed U-2 spy airplane in Moscow, Soviet Union. A diagram of a U-2 aircraft. People look at photographs on a wall. A photograph of a man. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the exhibit with Soviet dignitaries. Mr. Khrushchev gives statements to journalists. A Russian aircraft carrying Mr. Khrushchev and Soviet dignitaries taxis in Paris. A United States Air Force aircraft carrying U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and U.S. dignitaries lands. President Eisenhower addresses people at the airport. A motorcade rolls through the streets. French soldiers at attention in review. Cars drive past them. Exterior of a building.
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