An interview of United States Air Force Lieutenant General Ira Eaker conducted by Dr. Maurer in the United States. Dr Maurer and General Eaker seated at a desk. Dr Maurer talks about the work and the contribution of General Eaker in the U.S. Air Force. He says that General Eaker was the Commander of the 8th Air Force. In 1944, he became the Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force. Then from 1945 until his retirement in 1947, he was the deputy commander of the Army Air Forces and chief of the Air Staff. General Eaker talks about his experiences. He talks about the first airplane flight he saw. He further speaks that he was sent to a training camp in 1917. A man came in the camp looking for some fliers. He was already selected for an examination of regular army. He says that in November 1917, he was on a parade grounds. An airplane was in flight overhead. The aircraft landed and he looked at the engine of the aircraft.
(See also clip 65675078146 from different film transfer). Famous African American men and women citizens in the United States. Clip opens with of Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee University. Scene in a laboratory with African American scientist and inventor George Washington Carver, as an elderly man, working with another scientist in the laboratory. African American judge of New York city court. African American explorer Matthew Henson is seen looking at a globe (he was with Admiral Peary planting the American flag at the North Pole in 1909), and an unnamed African American surgeon at work in an operating room in New York. Next scene shows famous "father of the blues" musician and composer W.C. Handy (William Christoper Handy) smiling. Next is seen the financier and publisher of the Amsterdam News, Dr. C.B. Powell (Clilan Powell) greeting three uniformed African American women during a World War 2 war bond drive, and handing them a check (close up is shown) for 25,000 dollars, dated January 4, 1942, for the war bond drive. It is from the account of the Victory Mutual Life Insurance Company which Dr. Powell also owned. The check is signed by C.B Powell and Philip M.H. Savory (Dr. Savory was co-owner of the New York Amsterdam News). The next scene shows Elise Johnson McDougald, better known as Gertrude Elise Ayer, who was the first black full-time public school principal after the consolidation of New York City schools in 1898. She was also a noted woman writer during the Harlem Renaissance. She is seated in her office at her desk, likely in P.S. 119 in Harlem, since this is approximately year 1945 and she was at P.S 119 at that time. Her name plaque is visible on the front center of the desk. Principal Ayer smiles as a woman delivers a document to her. Next is seen the African American historian, author, and professor, Lawrence D. Reddick, serving in his role as the curator of the Schomburg Collection of African American Literature. In an art studio is seen the famous African American sculptor and painter Charles Alston, at work on a sculpture. Next scene shows the famous African American contralto singer, Marian Anderson, receiving a bouquet of flowers and smiling after a performance. This transitions to a view of African American orchestra conductor Dean Dixon leading an orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Several views of different sections of the orchestra performing under Dixon's direction. Clip closes with brief shots of campuses of several historically black colleges and universities in the United States like Howard University, Hampton, Tuskegee, Fisk, Prairie View. An American college football game underway at the stadium of one of the colleges.
Arab man walking with city of Jerusalem in background behind him. British army soldiers drive GMC OTTER Light Reconnaissance Cars next to the Tower of David (Jerusalem citadel). They are driving on Highway 60, also known as the Talpiot–Atarot Axis, also known as "Road 1." Sign that reads “NO ENTRY." Residents of Palestine, some wearing European clothing, others in traditional Arab attire, wait behind a barbed wire checkpoint. British Army soldiers of the South Lancashire Regiment check credentials and admit entry to a Jewish women. A South Lancashire Regiment soldier frisks an Arab man who has his hands raised. Soldiers talk to the driver of a 1945 Plymouth Special Deluxe sedan (one of only 770 made) that pulls up behind barbed wire. British soldier with machine gun behind sandbags and barbed wire. Machine gun pointing behind wall of sandbags. Silhouette of a soldier and barbed wires. Point of view from inside sand bag machine gun position looking out to city. Silhouettes of solidier and of a man putting his hands up.
End of World War Two in Europe. A C-47 takes off. Numerous United States Army Air Force aircraft fly in skies over Germany, including: P51s, P-38s, P-47s, and A-26s. A lamppost in the foreground. U.S. aircraft fly over bomb damaged buildings. Damage around an old bridge in Rogensburg.
Landsberg concentration camp in Germany during World War II. Guard towers in the camp area. A board in German reads ' Regards! Storage area ! Standing still and taking pictures are prohibited. Violations will be punished'. Barrack buildings and a barbed wire fence around the camp.
View from aircraft flying over the Elbe River, at Tangermunde, after Germany surremdered in World War 2. It flies over the bridge there, which has been severely damaged, with its span touching the water at one point. The aircraft continues flying over nearby rail yards.
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