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Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson welcomes the German Chancellor Konrad Hermann Josef Adenauer to Austin, Texas
The Chancellor of Germany Konrad Adenauer visits Austin, Texas. U.S. Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson presents a Texas Ten Gallon hat and welcomes Adenauer. View of the Texas Capitol building. Johnson and Adenauer ride in an open car and greet spectators, who crowd the sidewalks. Policeman, on motorcycle, moves enthusiastic spectators who spill into the street . Spectators hold banners to welcome Adenauer, some written in German. Johnson and Adenauer watch a welcoming parade, including bands,drum majorettes,and military units.
Glimpses at moments in life of King George VI of Great Britain, matching Trafalgar Day speech by his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II in her Trafalgar Day speech recounts events in life of King George VI during dedication of his statue in Carleton Gardens, London, England. Audio of the Queen speaking as footage from the life of King George VI is shown. View of the Statue of Brtish King George VI. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth standing in bombing rubble, and visiting suffering London residents during the Blitz by Nazi Germany in 1940 during World War II. As Prince Albert, he stands with companions watching boys engaged in sports activities at a camp for boys that he established after World War I. Prince Albert in bathing suit at the beach, and participating in a group sing with campers. As the first British sovereign to enter the United States of America, King George VI is seen as he rides in an open car with President Franklin D.Roosevelt. The King is seen with British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, visiting the war zones and decorating British Colonial troops, during World War II. The Queen says "Today is Trafalgar Day."
United States Army Air Corps film "The Truth About Ploesti."
Formations of B-24 Liberator bombers are seen in flight, headed for Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943, during World War 2. Next, vertical columns of bombs are seen falling from the planes. Animated map of Europe shows Romania and Ploesti. It show paths of oil from the Ploesti oil fields to Germany. (Narrator states Ploesti provides 30% of Axis oil.) Map show path of 9th Air Force bombers from Libya to the Ploesti oil fields. Scenes shift to captured German films from 1944, showing the fires and destruction resulting from the constant B-24 raids. Huge black clouds rise from the area. Firefighters rush to combat flames. They direct streams of water on the conflagrations. (Commenter states: "Delayed action bombs prevented firefighters from rushing in, until too late.") Nighttime views of large fires and heavy smoke from 6 of Ploesti's 7 refineries ripped wide open. Film advances to August, 1944, showing Ploesti with the fires out, following Rumania's capitulation. Next, with some fires still burning, King Michael I of Romania, tours the site with military officers. They walk amidst the debris. Smoke rising near a rail marshaling yard. Against a background of dense smoke rising, a Slate is displayed showing the cost to the United States of the Ploesti raids, as 300 bombers and 3000 American airmen were lost.
U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 bomber starts engines during World War II.. Loose formations of C-47 transport aircraft in flight.
U.S. Army Air Forces operations in Germany near the end of World War II. Fire guard stands watch as a USAAF B-26 aircraft of the 323rd Bombardment Group, starts engines at Denain-Prouvy Airdrome (A-83) in France, during World War 2. More than 50 bombs are painted on fuselage of the aircraft, representing completed bombing missions. The aircraft is equipped with 4-bladed propellers. Airman stands fire guard with extinguisher as Left engine is started. He then goes to the other side of the airplane to stand fire guard as the right engine is started. Change of scene: Allied C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft are seen flying overhead in extremely loose formations.
European Heads of State review their respective forces mobilizing for World War I. Glimpses of trench warfare.
German Kaiser Wilhelm II walks among German troops assembled for inspection in Berlin, Germany at outbreak of World War 1. The Kaiser and senior commanders review the troops on parade. The last contingent in the parade comprises civilian officials in top hats. French Prime Minister, Alexandre Ribot, is saluted by a military honor guard as he exits a building. He doffs his hat and turns in deference, as Raymond Poincaré, President of France exits behind him. They both enter a waiting car, followed by the French Minister of War, Jean Brun., who joins them. As they are being made comfortable in the car, French General Ferdinand Foch, exits the building (wearing a great coat) and is escorted by another General. In Russia, Emperor, Tsar nicholas ll, leads military commanders as they review a contingent of Russian guards in formation on the platform of a train station in Moscow. Camera pans across crowds filling the Palace Square, St. Petersburg, upon the declaration of war on 20, July, 1914. Base of the Alexander Column visible in center of crowd. Russian troops file into well established trenches. Huge explosions raise tons of earth amongst the trenches. Troops flee for safety. Many take cover in large shell craters. Several fall to machine gun fire, near barbed wire. A book is opened to a page entitled: "Military Program Proletarian Revolution" (in Russian). German troops are seen from above and behind sheltered in a trench with a desolate battlefield in front of them. Closeup of the troops. Next, Russian troops who died are seen in a water-filled trench. One is holding an M1891/Mosin–Nagant firle. Closeup of another soldier, covered in mud leaning against sandbags. Bodies of two soldiers at a pond of water in their trench. One is immersed, with face up, in the pond and the other is reaching down into it. What appear to be the bodies of soldiers entangled in barbed wire at edge of trench..
Nations in various stages of mobilization before and during World War I
Nations mobilizing for World War 1 (The Great War).from 1914 through 1917-18. Civilians in a Slavic country react to information fastened on a large circular post. Closeup of British Mark II tanks moving near the camera, followed by view of British Whippet tank in front of army trucks. Uniformed, armed, German troops assembling in a town square. German General Paul von Hindenburg leading members of his staff and a diplomat, on inspection of troops. A Russian officer on horseback with troops assembled in a city park. Unusual grouping of Military officers from Germany (wearing Picklehaube helmets); France; and Russia (including a Cossack), gathered in front of a Russian Orthodox Church (presumably somewhere in Russia) prior to World War 1. Anachronistic view of middle-aged Winston Churchill giving an address, before numerous microphones. U.S. Marines hurrying along a waterfront pier, past a variety of boats docked in a city marina. American soldiers looking at a U.S. Connecticut-class battleship docked at a pier, displaying a large American flag, during World War 1. Camera pans across the pier. Crew members seen on Japanese battleship, Settsu. Japanese troops disembarking from a transport ship covered with ice.
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