News report about the visit of U.S. President Richard M Nixon to the People's Republic of China. News anchor Frank Reynolds together with Dr. James Thomson reports about the meeting with Zhou Enlai in Beijing. President Nixon and Pat Nixon with Zhou Enlai at a State dinner in their honor. Enlai addresses the house in Chinese and a woman moderator translates his speech. President Nixon listens to the speech and reads its copy. Dr Henry Kissinger and other delegates and Chinese dignitaries at the ceremony. Everybody in the house raise a toast. Zhou Enlai sits between President Nixon and Patricia Nixon talking to them.
News report about the visit of U.S. President Richard M Nixon to the People's Republic of China. The State Dinner by Zhou Enlai in honor of President Nixon, Pat Nixon and American delegates at the Great Hall in Beijing. A translator translates the speech of President Nixon at the Great Hall. News anchors and experts analyze the speeches of President Nixon and Premier Enlai at the State Dinner.
News report about the visit of U.S. President Richard M Nixon to the People's Republic of China. The State Dinner by Zhou Enlai in honor of President Nixon, Pat Nixon and American delegates at Great Hall in Beijing. President Nixon finishes with his speech and raises toast with Enlai and other Chinese dignitaries. News anchor Frank Reynolds and expert Dr. James Thomson report about the State Dinner. Premier Enlai and Pat Nixon talk sitting by each other at the dinner table.
Families move on to their new houses in the Forest Heights housing project of the Department of Housing and Urban Development , in Mississippi, United States. Houses in the background. Two men unload furniture from a truck. They take it inside a house. A woman puts clothes out to dry. An African American family moves to the house in the new suburban neighborhood. A lady holding a child. Various houses under the housing plan. A man and a girl stand near the window of a house. Two children clean window glass. Two children and a man outside a house. A man cutting grass. A family sits inside a house. Two children walking. A man working in the garden.
A U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) training film titled 'How to fly the B-17. Part I. Ground Operations.' about inspections and safety precautions by a pilot prior to take off. A USAAF officer trains a new pilot beginning his career as a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress pilot. A B-17 parked nearby. The recruit confirms possession of weather codes and radio charts. A Sergeant (engineer) gets down the hatch in the aircraft belly and joins the other two. External Inspection: The three airmen inspect various aircraft parts. Tire inspection for slippage marks, outboard brake line for oil leakage, tire tread for cuts or damage, brake line on the in board side. Inspection of the right oleo for the load, whip antenna. Similar inspection of the left hand gear, oleo, and tire. The officer performs checks for: turbo wheel on the engine, check for cracks at welded joints, wheel for clearance, missing bucks, mechanical linkage on the wastegate, skin covering access doors. Check: nicks, dents, cracks on the propeller number 2, anti ice boots, stones between the boot and blade. Inspection of the three blades, propeller governor, engine for proper cooling, engine and propeller number 1. Checks: DI support on one side under the wing, all access and inspection doors, aileron fabric, aileron trim tab for play, antennas present and accounted for. Inspection of the ball turret door, guns horizontal and pointed to the rear, trailing antenna anchored, marker beacon antenna on, breaks, stabilizer, elevator covering and trim tab play. Inspection of the rudder covering and trim, damaged skin parts, elevator down spring through the tail gunner's hatch. The officer instructs the new pilot to repeat the same inspections on the right wing and engines 3 and 4.
The United States Army Air Force (USAAF) 303rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) 'Hell's Angels' taking delivery of new B-17 bombers at Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, Michigan. (Between 11 September and 2 October the 303rd BG took delivery of 35 new B-17Fs, 33 built by Boeing and two by Douglas. The 303rd flew missions out of Molesworth Airfield in England, during the war.) Several aircraft parked on the ramp in a row. Airmen around the aircraft. Airmen on a tug nearby. Some names and artwork on the B-17s. Hunga-Dunga painted on a B-17. Officers and airmen move under the aircraft wing. 'Garbage' painted on an aircraft. Officers stand nearby. Three crewmen laugh and pose. Additional notes: From Brian O’Neill’s “303rd Bombardment Group” here is the fate of the name ships shown: Serial No. Name Original Pilot Aircraft Fate 41-24588 Hunga Dunga J.E. Haas MIA 18 Mar 43 41-24563 Garbage A.I. Adams force landing and collision 11 Nov 43 41-24562 Sky Wolf C.H. Morales MIA 11 Jan 44
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