A review of research and development in guided missiles by the United States Air Force from 1919 to 1948. GB-6, a heat seeker missile, is assembled in a work laboratory. Men attach the homing device to the heat seeker unit then attach the same to the nose section of the GB-6 airframe. They test the heat seeker missile by holding a match flame in front of the same. Activating section of the heat seeker missile. A B-17 flying fortress in flight launches the GB-6 missile. The missile descends.
U.S. Army Major General Andrew Moses, Commander, Hawaii Division and Schofield Barracks, converses with another officer in front of a relief map of part of Hawaii. The desk of Major General Hugh A. Drum, Commanding General, U.S. Army Pacific, at his headquarters in Hawaii. General Drum sits at his desk and performs administrative tasks.
U.S. Army sentries walking their respective posts near what appears to be a 16 inch gun pointed seaward. They and the gun are silhouetted against the sky. Views of a heavy gun zooming in on the front of the barrel where inscriptions read: "_ inch No.4 Ord. Dept. U.S.A. Mod of 1907 V" and "Waterford Arsenal 1910." U.S. Army artillerymen set up a heavy gun in hills of Hawaii. An armorer transports a shell to a heavy gun on a wheeled carrier. A gun crew loads and rams the shell into the gun. View from end of barrel as shell is loaded from the breech.
A high altitude view of the city of Honolulu from the Punch Bowl. An aerial view of buildings, sea and trees. Mountains in the background. View of Diamond Head and Waikiki beach. The statue of King Kamehameha in the city. Buildings along the sides of a street. Cars parked in front of a building. Men on the street.
General Timoshenko arrives to review troops in Moscow, Russia during World War II. Buildings along the sides of a street. Troops stand in war against fascism. The soldiers stand in formation. An aerial view of the area in which the troops are gathered. General Timoshenko arrives riding a horse with other officers. The troops march in front of the officials. The General addresses the troops. Armed civilians and Red Army women pass in review.
Soviet Russian troops in Volokolamsk, Russia during World War II. Destroyed buildings and houses in the area. Tanks and soldiers advance. Soldiers on military vehicles pass through the streets. General Govorov's troops prepare for an attack in Mozhaisk. Street fighting in Mozhaisk against German forces. Truck transports roll into the city. Civilians watch the soldiers passing through the area. They wave at the soldiers. Newspapers are distributed. Russian posters are pasted on the walls. Scenes of atrocities committed by Nazi German forces: Frozen corpses including those of women and children. A woman cries after seeing the frozen dead body of her loved one. Bodies of Russian soldiers and civilians hanging from a mass line of gallows. Soviet soldiers advance towards the front. View of a historic war memorial. Soldiers fire artillery. Troops march through Moscow. A map of Russia showing places.
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