Francais
Deutsch
Italiano
Refine Your Search
Goodenough Island New Guinea 1943 stock footage and images
- Showing 11425 to 11430 of 13637 results
more
Hide
Fulgencio Batista greeted by President Roosevelt in Washington DC. Also Mexico, Brazil, and Chile side with Allies in World War 2
President of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista greeted by President Franklin D Roosevelt and Vice President Wallace in Washington, as Cuba expresses support for Allies in World War 2. Next scene shows armored tanks of Mexico rolling through Constitution Plaza in Mexico City, with Metropolitan Cathedral in background, as Mexico also side with the Allies. Next, President Vargas of Brazil waves from a balcony to cheering crowds in Rio de Janeiro as Brazil declares war. Chileans demonstrate for the United Nations in Santiago, Chile. Chilean demonstrators with flags and banners march on streets. Some carry large pictures of the Allied leaders.
Lend Lease materials transported across the world by convoys of American and British ships in World War II
Opening scene shows Lend Lease military equipment covered with canvas, at a port in the United States, during World War 2. A B-26 bomber with wings removed outboard of its engines, is being maneuvered for shipment at a port in the United States. A Lockheed P-38 airplane is moved on a crane and then rolled along a pier toward the stern of the U.S. Light Cruiser, USS Phoenix (CL-46) which is docked there. Wings of a Curtiss SOC-1 Seagull scout plane can be seen on the Phoenix. Two more P-38 aircraft are rolled along the pier, past another Brooklyn class Light Cruiser at the end of the pier. (Her triple 6-inch gun turrets are noticeable.) Crated supplies are seen being lowered into ship cargo holds. An American M2 light tank being lowered from a crane. An American M3 Lee tank being secured in a ship. Numerous tanks in a ship’s cargo hold. Next, a convoy of ships carrying war materiel overseas is seen at sea. A U.S. Cruiser plunging through heavy seas. View from her bridge overlooking her triple gun turrets, as her bow is awash in waves. A formation of U.S. battleships, led by a Nevada class Battle Ship armed with twin over triple forward gun turrets. She is followed by what appears to be a modernized Pennsylvania class Battleship and other battleships. A British Battle Cruiser followed by another British warship. Various Allied battleships firing their heavy guns. Animated map tracing the “Lend-Lease” routes across the North Atlantic to Iceland, the British Isles, and Murmansk. Map also shows routes by sea and air to the West Indies, Brazil, and South Africa and West Africa, and then by air across Africa, to egypt and the Middle East. Other routes are shown to Suez, Iran, India, and China, as well as trans-Pacific routes to various places. American soldiers crowd the upper deck of a troop transport ship. A military chaplain conducts religious services aboard ship at sea. More views of ships in convoys. A U.S. Navy Kingfisher float plane in flight over the water. A barrage balloon aloft. A U.S. Navy Catalina PBY flying boat in the air above a fleet of supply ships in a vast convoy.
U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport Command activities during World War II.
U.S. Air Forces Air Traffic Controllers on duty at a control Tower in an airfield during World War 2.. Several multi-engine aircraft are parked on the ramp, outside, including two Douglas C-54 transport aircraft. One controller looks through binoculars. Next, airmen are seen loading cargo into an aircraft from a truck backed up to its side. Air Forces ground crewmen are silhouetted against a light sky as they watch aircraft take off while being ferried overseas. Parked behind them is a USAAF Consolidated B-24 bomber. A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber taking off. A Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft landing. A North American B-25 Mitchell bomber taking off. Next, numerous Douglas C-47 transport airplanes are seen taxiing on an airfield. View from directly in front of a C-47 aircraft as it takes off, and passes over the camera. View from ground of a low flying C-47, and then of several in loose formation flying overhead.
United States Postal service employees at work, and methods of handling mail.
Pages of Domestic Postage Rates and Postal Information document. A postal employee closes the black door of a mail truck. Employee at the post box in street. Truck passing on road. People arrive at Parcel Post. People queued up at Postal Savings and Money Orders counters. Men sorting mail sacks. All types of mails sorted by postal employees. Mails on conveyor belt. Bundles of letter and various parcels. Letters without an address.
Postmaster General James A. Farley at desk.
Various post offices across the nation. Postal employees at work. Shows a flying plane, men riding sleds, a boat by a ship, and a moving railroad train by which mail is transported. U.S. Capitol building. Postal trucks lined up at the Capitol. Shows Postmaster General James A. Farley at desk in his office. Farley signs a document.
Winston Churchill accompanied by his daughter Sara arrives by train for Quebec Conference during World War 2.
Train arrives at railroad station in Quebec, Canada. Prime Minister Churchill and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King greet crowd gathered at train. Winston Churchill, accompanied by his daughter Sara, leaves the train. Churchill smokes a cigar. Automobiles as they leave railroad station. Churchill and his daughter step out of car at site of accommodations for Conference. Interior views of the Presidential Suite reserved for President Franklin Roosevelt at the Conference.
CRITICALPAST.COM: About Us | Contact Us | FAQs - How to Order | License Agreement | My Account | My Lightboxes | Shopping Cart | Advanced Search | Featured Collections | Website Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy ©2026 CriticalPast LLC.
License Agreement |
Terms & Conditions |
Privacy Policy
©2026 CriticalPast LLC.