Map highlights New York in United States and San Juan in Puerto Rico. Connection established between the two places. Baltimore and Miami also connected with San Juan. Map of Island of Puerto Rico. Boats at San Juan harbor. Buildings in background. A Pan American Airways Fokker F-10A trimotor passenger plane lands on airfield. Tourists deplane. A Sikorsky S-40 flying boat being tied up to a dock. Automobiles parked in streets of port city. Buildings in city. Traffic moves on street. Man looks down from balcony of building. Traffic in narrow streets. Cloudy sky as seen from seacoast.
President Herbert Hoover meets political and business leaders from Texas on White House lawn (in the days following the September 7, 1929 launch of the ship USS Houston at Newport News Virginia). President Hoover shakes hand and poses with delegates. Among those seen are R.B. Creager, Judge Higgins, the President, Houston Mayor Walter Monteith, Senator Garrett and Senator Connolly. Colonel R.C. Kuldell invites President Hoover to visit Houston Texas.
The Joint Operations Staff College at Norfolk, Virginia. Seminars conducted at the National War College and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Officers collected from ground, Naval and Air Force work collectively. Officers examine globe, read books and attend medical service classes. Officers enter into building. Officers play pool (billiards). Door Sign reads 'Student Committee Room'. Officers seated in a round table conference. Officers attend the War College in Washington DC. Civilian and Army officers meet each other at school. Officers attend classes at the Industrial College of Armed Forces. Officers examine a chart in room. Officers in a aircraft factory examine aircraft being assembled. Officers observe workers assembling a truck. Officers confer in a library with books on nearby shelves. Officers eat together in dining facilities and play handball. Military caps of different services on a hat rack. Massive columns of US Army soldiers and military vehicles, artillery, tanks, and tank destroyers parade on a street (possibly New York City) possibly at end of World War 2 or near that time. Military bomber aircraft in flight in formation overhead. The United States and British flags fluttering side by side in a breeze.
Elements of B Company, 2/47th Infantry (Mechanized) and C Company, 4/39th Infantry, clearing North Vietnamese Army regulars from "Widows' Village" (a hamlet of housing provided by the government of the Republic of Vietnam for widows and children of fallen ARVN soldiers). The action occurs January 31st, 1968 (on "Tet", the Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday). U.S. troops firing small arms as they proceed across tall grass into the hamlet. Several M 113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) are seen accompanying the troops. A soldier, who has been hit, lying prone between two other soldiers, tries to get up. Flames consuming huts. Riflemen moving cautiously. A slightly wounded soldier, lying on the ground, smiles as he points to his leg as another soldier helps him. APCs advance, firing 50 caliber machine guns. Riflemen staying close behind. Views of a number of huts, in the hamlet, that have not been destroyed. (Note: According to Colonel Sonny Craven, then leader of a combat photo team on the scene, these combat sequences was filmed by soldiers of the 221st Signal Company [Pictorial]). Craven and another photographer, were both wounded in the engagement.) (Vietnam War period).
Republican New York Congressman Hamilton Fish III rehearsing a public statement on the steps of the Capitol in Washington DC. In his statement, Congressman Fish, known as Hamilton Fish Jr. in the Congress, objects to President Roosevelt's pact in which Britain will lease navy bases to the United States in return for 50 destroyers. He repeats his statement several times for the camera and microphone, rewording the statement somewhat each time.
Clock on stand shows time. Map of Europe with flames of war sweeping over it. Two men seated in office. A family sits at dinner table in home. Two men in a news broadcast studio. President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses Congress during World War II. Clock pendulum swings. Views of American heavy industry: steel making and power lines crossing the country. General Electric factories, all over the United States and thousands of company employees. Close view of GE worker standing. View of machinist's hands, as he stops a lathe and uses micrometer to check dimension of piece being turned. Workers punching a time clock. View of night shift at work.in a defense plant.
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