Shows American troops test-driving amphibious jeeps (Ford GPA) in a river in Detroit, Michigan during World War II. They pass under a small bridge. The troops reach the shore.
View of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. United States soldiers bring coffins containing bodies of unknown soldiers of World War II and Korean Conflict. Honor guards at the U.S. Capitol. The flag-draped coffins are brought to the Capitol Rotunda, the large, domed circular room located in the center of the U.S. Capitol. Homage paid to the dead soldiers inside rotunda. United States Navy men lay wreaths in front of the coffins. United States soldiers and Navy keep vigil and observe lying-in-state.
Shows U.S. Navy personnel testing their new amphibious vehicle, LVTUX2 (Landing Vehicle Track Utility Experimental Model 2) in Seattle, Washington. The LVT(U)X2 Goliath carrying navy personnel and a U.S. Army tank enters water. Its crosses the water body and successfully reaches the shore. The tank debarks from the LVT (U) X2 Goliath.
Scenes showing various historical events that took place in April 1935, during the Great Depression. In Stresa, Italy, on the banks of Lake Maggiore, leaders of Britain, France and Italy confer on German rearmament, in violation and defiance of the Versailles Treaty. (There they sign the "Stresa Front"). Images show the French and British delegations arriving by boat and walking near the port at Stresa, including British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, French Prime Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, and French Foreign Minister (President of the Council of Ministers) Pierre Laval. U.S. College students across the country join in anti-war, pacifist demonstrations a few years before World War 2. They are seen marching with banners and anti-war signs and cartoons. One banner reads, "It is the task of the 20th century to make this world a brotherhood." Also "War is Hell....Who want to go to hell?" and "War is Stupid". President Franklin Roosevelt returns from a two week cruise. He arrives in Jacksonville Florida. Local officials and crowds in Jacksonville greet him and cheer. Boy Scouts in a line greet the President. Views of Franklin Roosevelt in an open car and on ships and docks. Al Smith and Herbert Hoover share the speaker's stage in New York lending their support in fundraising for the Salvation Army during the Depression. Scenes from the Easter Parade in New York City. Crowds gather, filling double-decker open air buses. Al Smith seen with his wife. Postmaster General James Farley and Irish tenor singer John McCormack are seen on Fifth Avenue in New York. Amelia Earhart completes a 1700-mile flight from Burbank, California to Mexico City. Scenes of her in Mexico City in a car laden down with celebrating Mexican officials. Aviatrix Bernadine King sets a new record for upside down endurance flying. She is seen getting into her plane, and her plane is seen upside down in the air.
Miss Smaranda Braescu poses near an airplane. She enters the plane and is shown wearing an oxygen mask along with the pilot. The plane takes off from the airfield. Miss Braescu makes a jump from the plane at an altitude of 24,000 feet. She opens her parachute and successfully lands on the airfield. Two officials help her unfasten the parachute harness and shake her hand.
Shows a mother with her newly born triplets in Chicago,Illinois. The triplets sleep in bed. Mother carries them in a baby cart. Mother and father poses with their babies.
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