United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Director Fiorello La Guardia watches grain being loaded on a train at Climax, Minnesota. Board reads "Railway Express Agency". Trucks full of grain. The Director with another man pastes a banner on the coach of the train. The banner reads "Mercy Wheat for the Starving"
Aerial views of wreckage after two trains collided at Naperville, Illinois. A man trying to save people trapped in the coach of a train. People helping injured persons. People gather around wreckage of the trains.
Pilot, Major Woodrow Swancutt and Bombardier, Major Harold H. Wood, are interviewed in front of their B-29 "Dave's Dream," after returning from their mission, dropping an atomic bomb on the Bikini Atoll, in Test Able, of the Operation Crossroads atomic tests. Both officers wear unit patch on left pocket of their flight suits, showing an atomic explosion and the words, "59th Wing."
Sailors on Lafayette 616 submarine. Crew assembling Mark 2 missile. Missile inserted into the liner. A man tightening bolts. Crewman preparing hoisting frame. Crewmen fits hoisting frame around the missile. Closing with a lid. Liner put on a trailer truck. Hoisting unit attached to the liner. A man is attaching plug. Man shows remote control instrument by pointing out. A man reversing phase by switching to another output. Man opens the switch box and turns the switch on. A man climbs the shaft. A man unlocks a lid. A truck is taking missile coming out of the assembly plant.
A man at a Launcher Control Panel. Optical alignment trolleys are made ready. Mechanical interlocks are opened. A man enters ejection chamber. A man roping off the exclusion area. Muscle hatches and hydraulic system secured. Loading fixtures mounted on submarine's launching tube. Ground wire lowered by supervisor.
A trailer backs. Crane's hook attached to hoisting unit. A duplicate of the remote control given to one of the loading crew. A man from loading crew checking. Wire attached to missile lifts it. A man operating crane. Missile swing to the dock. Animation of loading fixture and parts of missile. The submarine standby to receive loading fixture. Man signals to lower down the loading fixture. Crew transferring the liner to the submarine. Dock crew locking liner on the submarine. Animation of responsibilities of crew members.
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