USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States. Entrance to Arizona Memorial with letters above entrance 'USS Arizona memorial'. U.S. Navy Admiral Perry and staff enter the memorial from a boat landing. Guests arrive in a boat at boat landing to the Memorial. Admiral Riggs and party enter the memorial followed by the guests. Admiral W. S. Benson and Admiral Metzger arrive at boat landing and enter the memorial with guests.
Large crowd gathered at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. People waving farewell to the men aboard the USS Arizona (BB-39) battleship as it is launched into the East River. Steam boats and tug boats move beside the Battleship as it leaves the naval yard. Crowd on the grandstand includes the sponsor, Miss Esther Ross, and the Governor of Arizona, George Hunt. Also Eva Behn, Salee King, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, Marie Farroll who was Maid of Honor, and Mrs. Ross, the mother of the sponsor. Views of the USS-Arizona underway in the East River, surrounded by many small tug boats and steam ships.
View of open-pit mine at Jerome in Arizona, USA. Timber of old underground mining can be seen in the sides of the pit. Loose rock barred down from steep pit walls. Sulphide ore mined by small shovels mounted on caterpillars. Light trucks haul the ore to chutes.
View of the main haulage tracks for ore cars inside a copper mine drift at Ray in Arizona, USA. The drifts branch off beneath the ore. A mine worker stands beside an ore car. Another miner climbs a ladder.
On 12 December, 1944, at an airport in Naples, Italy, British General Sir Henry Nathan Wilson inspects an honor guard of American Military Policemen in formation. (Narrator states he is en route to replace the late Field Marshal Sir John Dill, in Washington, DC, USA) A contingent of British troops is also present as part of the honor guard, on the wet airport tarmac. (Narrator states that Wilson will head the British Joint Staff Mission and be personal military representative for Prime Minister Winston Churchill.) He approaches a line of U.S. military officers who salute him. Closeup of General Wilson With U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker, next to U.S. Vice Admiral Kent Hewitt. Also with them (back to camera) is British Admiral Sir John Henry Dacres Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief for the Mediterranean Fleet. Next, General Wilson and his party are seen boarding a British Avro York four-engine Heavy Transport aircraft. View from the ground, of the aircraft cockpit and the engines running as it taxis out for takeoff. Change of scene shows troops gathered in open air battlefield environment. General Mark Clark, now Commander-in-Chief of the Allied 15th Army Group, decorates some members of the 5th Army, as General Lucian King Truscott Jr. (new 5th Army Commander) stands by his side. General Clark says farewell to members of the 5th Army and shakes hands with many of them. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
Exteriors of copper mining plants at the Inspiration Mine and Miami in Arizona. A plant in the background. Smoke stacks emit smoke. View of a mine pit cause by caving beneath it in Miami.
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