Night engagement off Empress Augusta Bay, during World War 2. Documents describing U.S. forces engaged in the battle. View of the Augusta Bay at dawn. Animation on screen shows the Guadalcanal naval battles and the attacks on Solomon Islands and Bougainville Island. A diagram depicts the movement of U.S. Navy Task Force 39 from Empress Augusta Bay to Shortland Island and diverting towards Treasury Island. Fleet of ships en route. United States B-24 Bomber in flight. Diagram shows the route of Japanese Forces and the United States Task Force 39. Fleet of Japanese ships on the way.
Tourists visit Enoshima Island, Kamakura County, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Western tourists at bridge over Enoshima Seashore between Enoshima Beach and Enoshima Island and look at boats. Boats are moored at the jetty of Enoshima Island. Tourists walk down the bridge. View of Enoshima East Beach and hills in the background. Traditional wooden inns (called ryokan) at both sides of the narrow entrance path to Enoshima Shinto Shrine (2 Chome-3-8 Enoshima, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-0036, Japan) at the hilltop of Enoshima Island. A man fanning his daughter inside a ryokan inn.
Animated atom logo of the Atomic Energy Commission. Narrator comments that in World War 2, the operations at Los Alamos were hidden behind postal box 663. View of the town of Los Alamos in New Mexico, United States. Men, women and children in the town going about ordinary business at post office, shopping, cutting grass in a front yard of a home, playing golf, hanging out laundry to dry on a clothesline. Workers entering secure areas of Los Alamos atomic and nuclear facilities, with views of fences and a sign with two ears on it that says, "Security starts between the ears." Officials inside the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) of the Atomic Energy Commission of United States. Narrator speaks of the "J Division" as the unit responsible for testing of nuclear weapons, which the narrator notes is "a routine practice by now." Scenes of scientists working with specialized equipment in laboratories at the LANL. Officials viewing a map of Eniwetok Atoll. Aerial view of the Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Officials of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission, in a joint meeting, collectively map Operation Greenhouse. Joint Task Force Three. View of Washington Monument in Washington DC, panning down to views of people and traffic near the Main Navy and Munitions Buildings. Group of uniformed officials of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Atomic Energy Commission meeting around a large conference table in Washington DC. Men from government agencies, colleges and universities throughout America work to instrument the operation; scenes of more scientists in laboratories; closeup views of beakers and test tubes. A man at Los Alamos leaving his house, accompanied by a boy (his son) and a dog who walk with the man toward a car as the man departs for extended work on Operation Greenhouse. Aerial shots of the Perry Islands (U.S. transport and scientists base) and the Eniwetok Atoll (US Army and Air Force base). U.S. Navy ship anchored at the lagoon. Scenes of barracks, laboratories and scientific structures on the islands. Scientists and engineers standing near the frame of a metal tower used for hoisting and positioning an atomic weapon for testing. Views inside the test tower, looking upward at the elevator system. Wide view from the distance of a test tower on an island.
The fourth presidential election debate held between Democratic nominee Senator John F. Kennedy and Republican nominee U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in New York, United States on 21st October 1960. ABC News correspondent Quincy Howe speaks during the debate and allows NBC correspondent John Chancellor to pose a question to Richard Nixon a . Correspondent Chancellor asks a question about Quemoy and Matsu issue. Vice President Nixon points out inconsistency of Senator Kennedy. He further explains it by saying that Senator Kennedy signed a resolution in 1955 which gave the president the power to use United States forces to defend Formosa (Taiwan) and offshore islands. But he also voted for an amendment which was lost, an amendment which would have drawn a line and left out those islands. Vice President Nixon supports President Eisenhower's position. Correspondent Howe asks Senator Kennedy to comment on the topic. He speaks about President Eisenhower sending a mission to persuade Chiang Kai-shek in the spring of 1955 to withdraw from Quemoy and Matsu because they were exposed. The President was unsuccessful. He refers to the fact that in 1958, as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was very familiar with the position that the United States took in negotiating with Communist China (PRC) on these two islands. He further that the U.S. was unable to persuade China's Chiang Kai-Shek to withdraw and thus it was decided by the U.S. to defend the islands.
Opening slate reads: "Cairo and Teheran." A view of the world turning, accompanied by voice of President Franklin Roosevelt broadcasting a Christmas messeage to the Armed Forces in 1943, during World War 2. Glimpses of families and people abroad listening to the President on radio. Views of Moscow and the Kremlin in the Soviet Union. British, American, and Soviet flags on a desktop at the Moscow conference in October, 1942. Camera shows Foreign Ministers Vyacheslav Molotov, Anthony Eden and Cordell Hull signing documents and then shaking hands. View of great pyramid of Cheops and the Sphinx. Closeup of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek at the Cairo Conference. Wider view of them with their respective military Commanders standing behind them. A view showing Madam Chian Kai-Shek seated near and conversing with Winston Churchill. Animated map of China. Illustration of a book entitled: "The Tanaka Memorial." Warships firing their guns. U.S. Marines in Landing Vehicles Tracked on amphibious assault of a Pacific island. Marines ashore in combat. More views of U.S. Navy ships bombarding Japanese-held islands and of U.S. forces in amphious assaults. Glimpses of fighting in jungles. A U.S. Navy Consolidated PB4Y-2S Privateer aircraft in flight. Bombs dropping from aircraft. Australian and New Zealand forces firing artillery in jungles. Dutch soldiers in a landing ship. British soldiers in a landing craft. Australian soldiers moving onto an island. At TC:03:38, a flight of three Flying Tiger P-40 airplanes are seen flying in fornation. Geralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek walks among Chinese soldiers. American Flying Tiger pilots walk toward their P-40 airplanes parked in line on a ramp. One taxiis out for takeoff. A B-17 bomber taking off from a foreign airfield. Closeup of General George Marshall with General Douglas MacArthur. Admiral Nimitz conversing with U.S. officers on a captured Japanese Island.
Aerial view of ship fleet in water during the battle of Iwo Jima in Japan. A ship and other ships and boats in water. A plane launched. Large clouds of smoke behind plane. Aerial views of boats. A fleet of boats in advances in sea. Aerial views of boats. Boats reach island. U.S. soldiers of 5th Marine Division in a LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked). Aerial view of boats and ships advancing. U.S. soldiers pushing a tank in shore area of island. Scene of a crane. A U.S. soldier runs and comes to another soldier. A U.S. soldier doing bandage on leg of a soldier and others helping him. Japanese men captured by U.S. soldiers. A Japanese soldier tries to climb a boat and the U.S. soldier takes him up. Scene of a U.S. soldier climbing LVT. U.S. soldiers advance towards island. Military vehicles advance. Scene of military vehicles through a tank's window. Scene of a bomb explosion. U.S. soldiers fire and hide at a slope. A ship in the sea. Firing by guns of the ship. Planes drop bomb. Aerial view of boats in sea. Scene of bomb explosion. A U.S. tank and soldiers advance on a hilly terrain. Scenes of firing. Wreckage of a crashed plane on ground seen. Firing by a tank as seen through the window of the tank. Soldiers coming out of a bunker. A U.S. soldier checks his rifle. A soldier gets up and runs. Firing by a tank. Scenes of bombing on the shore areas of the island. (World War II period).
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