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Assembling an aircraft to be ferried to Russia.
Aerials of Anglo-Iranian oil refineries and planes parked at an airfield. Truck pulls trailer loaded with disassembled aircraft. Overhead crane stack supplies in storage depot. African American (US) soldiers remove side from crated airplane parts. P-40 and A-20 assembled at an airfield. Russian officers ferrying planes to Russia, arrive in C-47. Various Russian pilots, officers and U.S. officers. (World War II period).
USA Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visits a canning factory, Iranian factory workers make wooden spindles
United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) shakes hands with locals during his official visit to the Middle East. Man packs dried fruits in package. Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson visit a food factory. The Vice President's Executive Assistant, Liz Carpenter, is also seen. Turkish worker sorts out canned products behind crates of produce. Worker operates canning machine before placing cans on conveyor belt. Workers process produce in canning factory in Turkey. Workers in canning warehouse. “The need of the present is to press on that momentum, and it give it new evidence to carry forward economic development” says Lyndon B. Johnson from his speech. An Iranian engineer and an American consultant work together in planning a spindle factory. Worker works on machine to make spindles. Newly made spindle gets tossed in box full of spindles. Iranian worker pulls out spindle from machine. Wooden spindles fall into pile. Machine loom weaving fabric at a textile mill.
Signs in English and Arabic found in Tehran (WW2)
Iranian teenagers on the street of Tehran watch a United States soldier holding a title slate for the camera during World War II. View of the Cabaret Astoria bar façade. “Hollywood Laundry” sign in English and Arabic.
President Harry S Truman awards Congressional Medals of Honor at the White House to Carl Sitter and Reginald Myers
President Harry S Truman awards Congressional Medals of Honor at the White House in Washington DC. A gathering at the White House. Officials and awardees with their families. The recipients are Marine Captain Carl Sitter (standing left of the President when all three men are together) and Reginald Myers (standing right of the President). The President awards the Medal of Honor to each of the two officers. The officers shake hands and pose with the President. Officers with their families after receiving the Medals. Sitter holding his son and pictured with his wife. Myers' wife, Margaret, and daughter, Susan, and son, Scott. Myers holding his son, Scott. Major Myers was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor while serving as Executive Officer, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, in the vicinity of HAGARU-RI, KOREA, November 29, 1950, while commanding a group of 80 men who were stragglers and missing from other units during the Korean War. Major Myers' makeshift unit successfully denied the Chinese Communists the possession of EAST HILL, which dominated the key crossroads in the withdrawal -- attack in another direction -- by U.S. Marines and Army units from the Chosin Reservoir. Captain Sitter's unit relieved Major Myers' unit in the same battle. Sitter received e medal for his actions as a commanding officer during a two-day battle at Hagaru-Ki, Korea in November 1950. The fighting lasted 36 hours, and Sitter endured grenade burns to his face, arms and chest. He refused to evacuate as the fight continued. More than half of his company was killed, wounded or captured, but a successful defense of the area was mounted by U.S. soldiers.
Departure of U.S. Army General Omar Nelson Bradley from the National Airport, Washington DC.
Departure of U.S. Army General Omar Nelson Bradley from the National Airport, Washington DC. The Geneal with other officers at the airport. Cameramen take pictures. General Bradley talks to the journalists as they take notes. A U.S. transport plane in the background. A journalist takes an audio recorded interview of the General. He talks to other officers. The General and another official board the plane.
Sale of Patrol frigate to Colombia, at the Pentagon in Washington DC.
Sale of a Patrol frigate to the nation of Colombia, taking place at the Pentagon in Washington DC. SECNAV (Secretary of the Navy) Dan A. Kimball and another U.S. government official has a discussion with a Colombian official. Secretary Kimball and the Colombian official at a table. They go through the sale papers. Both officials sign the papers as the third official watches. They shake hands and complete the sale.