Commodore George Dewey onboard his flagship United States cruiser USS Olympia (C-6) during a trip back to the United States. Dewey is with other U.S. Navy officers on deck. Commodore Dewey also puts on his hat. Dewey walks back and forth deck before a group of men board the ship. The group of men take off their hats and greet Dewey. Commodore Dewey and some crew sail on a boat and land in Gibraltar. Officials in Gibraltar welcome Commodore Dewey. Dewey shakes hands with the officials. More Gibraltar officials board the ship to meet Dewey on deck. Commodore Dewey receives the Washington and New York committees of the Committee of Arrangements onboard the Olympia. Commodore Dewey takes his leave of the Washington Committee onboard.
Soldiers guard a group of Korean refugees during the Korean War. The refugees sit on the ground. Hungarian rebels shoot behind a building between Károlyi and Cukor Street (Budapest, Károlyi utca 9, 1053 Hungary) in Inner City, Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. In a devastated street, a tank rolls in, with Soviet soldiers sitting on top. Burned and abandoned tanks along Andrassy Avenue. Newspaper article titled “Khrushchev Hails New African States”. United States President John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural speech from the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. “We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom--and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.” President Kennedy said.
Aerial view of Detroit, Michigan, late 1920s. Aerial view of the General Motors Building (Cadillac Place, 3044 W Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 48202) by Albert Kahn located in the New Center area of Detroit.
During the German invasion of Poland during World War II, German army forces cross new temporarily built bridges. The troops are composed primarily of soldiers on foot, with horse-drawn supply wagons and some mounted cavalry. German troops crossing on a low and simply-made bridge with no guardrails. Debris in the water near the bridge. Horse-drawn wagons entering a different bridge. View of crooked rails on hastily-made bridges. A soldier on a bicycle rides up a muddy road beside a horse-drawn supply wagon. Another wagon ahead contains another bicycle. A third bridge is crossed. On the opposite bank, a wagon pulled by two horses speeds off the bridge, kicking up dust. A soldier runs behind. Horses run to pull wagons up a hill, and then slow at the top. The troops walk along a road.
Lines of U.S. soldiers march on either side of two moving M4 Sherman tanks, followed by transport vehicles, three days after the D-Day invasion of France in World War 2. The men and vehicles move in opposite directions. Allied ships and barrage balloons in the background. Scene cuts to new location where U.S. military vehicles and soldiers move about, barrage balloons clearly visible in the sky. Two M8 Greyhound armored cars and a smaller vehicle drive past. A soldier moves heavy equipment using a large tractor fitted with a bulldozer blade, raising his hand while shouting. More scenes of U.S. Army vehicles driving past. Shot of damaged vehicle. Procession of vehicles ascend slope, moving inland.
Shot of aircraft flying ahead, high above fields, taken from mounted camera of 359th Fighter Group, on August 16, 1944, in Europe, during WW2. Scene changes to gun camera footage from a different plane, as it approaches an aircraft, August 16, 1944. The aircraft in pursuit peels off. New scene from August 18, 1944, taken from aircraft of 4th Fighter Group as it makes multiple low passes to attack ground targets. The aircraft strafes enemy German vehicles and other roadway targets.
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