Major events of the year 1951. War takes place in Korea. Artillery fired and Koreans captured. News paper headline symbolizes removal of General MacArthur as the Chief of the United Nations forces in Korea. General Matthew Ridgway takes over as the Chief of the United Nations forces. Dead prisoners of war lined up. General Eisenhower with Korean representatives in Korea as they sign an agreement for a buffer zone. (Korean War)
Manufacturing of ordnance in United States. Men work building war materiel in Watervliet arsenal, New York. Men work on machine gun manufacture and assembly. Assembling aircraft machine guns by war production workers early during World War 2.
Manufacturing of ordnance war materiel in United States. War production workers checking guns by placing test cartridges in machine guns. Stacking two types of completed machine guns at the factory early during World War 2.
Manufacturing of ordnance war materiel in United States early in World War 2. Man carries a machine gun and fixes it on a stand with its barrel protruding to the other side of the wall. Cartridge belts. Men pick up belts and feed them into guns. War production workers test fire the guns and used up cartridges pile up in a container by the side of the gun. Smoke rises as guns are fired for testing at conclusion of machine gun production process.
Visit by President Roosevelt to inspect manufacturing of ordnance war materiel in United States early in World War 2. A large crowd gathered outside an ordnance factory as President Roosevelt's car arrives. Variety of ordnance displayed at the factory. Franklin D Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt and Henry Kaiser in a car pass the ordnance on display. 155 mm gun, railway gun, naval broadside gun, and other guns and artillery displayed at war production factory.
Victory in Europe Day during World War II. View of street corner as people walk to and fro at intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th Street Northwest in Washington DC, United States. People walk at the street corner with an American flag at half mast in the background. American citizens in typical dress of 1945. View of the street signs at the instersection '15th St" and "Penn Av" Newspaper headlines declare end of World War II in Europe. The Washington Afro American newspaper headling, "War Ends in Europe". Front page of the the Jewish Journal and Daily News with Hebrew text.
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