The Second Aviation Instruction Center in Tours, France during World War I. An aircraft takes off from an airfield and is in flight overhead. U.S. Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, Chief of the Air Service John D. Ryan and U.S. Army General Bliss, Lieutenant General James Guthrie Harbord and General John J. Pershing standing on the airfield. They discuss and inspect airplanes.
(See also clip 65675078146 from different film transfer). Famous African American men and women citizens in the United States. Clip opens with of Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee University. Scene in a laboratory with African American scientist and inventor George Washington Carver, as an elderly man, working with another scientist in the laboratory. African American judge of New York city court. African American explorer Matthew Henson is seen looking at a globe (he was with Admiral Peary planting the American flag at the North Pole in 1909), and an unnamed African American surgeon at work in an operating room in New York. Next scene shows famous "father of the blues" musician and composer W.C. Handy (William Christoper Handy) smiling. Next is seen the financier and publisher of the Amsterdam News, Dr. C.B. Powell (Clilan Powell) greeting three uniformed African American women during a World War 2 war bond drive, and handing them a check (close up is shown) for 25,000 dollars, dated January 4, 1942, for the war bond drive. It is from the account of the Victory Mutual Life Insurance Company which Dr. Powell also owned. The check is signed by C.B Powell and Philip M.H. Savory (Dr. Savory was co-owner of the New York Amsterdam News). The next scene shows Elise Johnson McDougald, better known as Gertrude Elise Ayer, who was the first black full-time public school principal after the consolidation of New York City schools in 1898. She was also a noted woman writer during the Harlem Renaissance. She is seated in her office at her desk, likely in P.S. 119 in Harlem, since this is approximately year 1945 and she was at P.S 119 at that time. Her name plaque is visible on the front center of the desk. Principal Ayer smiles as a woman delivers a document to her. Next is seen the African American historian, author, and professor, Lawrence D. Reddick, serving in his role as the curator of the Schomburg Collection of African American Literature. In an art studio is seen the famous African American sculptor and painter Charles Alston, at work on a sculpture. Next scene shows the famous African American contralto singer, Marian Anderson, receiving a bouquet of flowers and smiling after a performance. This transitions to a view of African American orchestra conductor Dean Dixon leading an orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Several views of different sections of the orchestra performing under Dixon's direction. Clip closes with brief shots of campuses of several historically black colleges and universities in the United States like Howard University, Hampton, Tuskegee, Fisk, Prairie View. An American college football game underway at the stadium of one of the colleges.
Amphibious operation by U.S. Army 16th Infantry Regiment troops on Eniwetok Atoll in Marshall islands during World War 2. U.S. soldiers hunkered down on steep rocky shore of Eniwetok during the assault. An M4A2 Sherman tank of the U.S. Marines 2d Separate Tank Company, with triangle 1 marking is parked nearby. A Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT)( hits the beach. An LCV (Landing Craft, Vehicle) approaches the beach and ramp being lowered. An M-7 Priest self-propelled gun exits the LCV. An M4 Sherman tank with diamond 3 marking moves inland. Uprooted palm trees in the foreground. Soldiers relax on the beach. U.S. officers hold a chart as they discuss and plan. Glimpse of an aircraft in flight overhead.
Nike-Hercules missile site in Taiwan during Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. American Red Cross Field Director Howard D. Hoops walks up to a trailer and talks to an officer. He walks to the tracking radar and talks to personnel on duty at the radar. He shakes hands with a man. Nike-Hercules missiles as a jeep arrives. A U.S. Army officer shakes hands with an officer seated in the jeep. Jeep pulls away. Field Director Hoops comes out of a building. He talks to other officers. A sign reads 'C Batry 71st Art IFC' Field Director Hoops comes out of a building and gets in the jeep and drive away.
First Nike-Hercules missile service in Taiwan. Exteriors of Nike missile assembly building in Northern Taiwan. CWO (Chief Warrant Officer) James F. Wheeler of 61st Artillery, 2nd Missile Battalion, D Battery, checks the Nike missile for proper assembly. Nike assembly officer 1st Lieutenant Lee Kuei Cheng of 1st Missile Battalion, B Battery, and Sergeant Gordon A. Cotner, Division B of MAAG advisory team, are seen. Two Chinese mechanics remove rear plate of Nike. Nike missile shipping container. Sergeant Cotner and CWO Wheeler discusses reassembled portion of missile. Chinese officer takes inventory as parts are being uncrated and hands them to Chinese mechanics. Sergeant Cotner watches as Chinese officer inspects Nike container.
Roman ruins in Pompeii, near Naples, Italy. Views of ancient stone streets lined with walls and buildings. Columned Front and courtyard of a grand villa. Elaborately carved stone border on a house. Carved stone commemorating some event. Painted walls on interior of a house (looking almost as bright as they were when painted) with portraits of a man and woman on them. A stone gateway at a town square. Statue of a faun that was part of a fountain in courtyard of a grand villa. Statue of a boy holding a goose. Views of smoldering lava on Mt. Vesuvius. (Note: When the volcano Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. the then seaside village of Pompeii was covered with hot ash, killing almost all of its inhabitents, man and beast alike, and lay undisovered for almost 2000 years. There is still much to be excavated by archeologists.)
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