Scenes from life and career of Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th President of United States. U.S. Air Force plane lands and the President disembarks the plane in India, in 1959. He is greeted by the Indian President Dr Rajendra Prasad and other dignitaries. Emblem of 'Panama'. Sign of 'welcome Ike Crusader'. Large crowd welcomes Eisenhower. Motorcade goes through the city's street. Milestones in General Eisenhower's life and the international esteem with which he is held. Lt Col Eisenhower concerned about U.S. isolationism in 1940 as World War 2 is underway. Explosions in Europe due to bombing by German aircraft. Eisenhower and other officers in the General Staff study a map. Eisenhower plans the strategy as the commander of Operation Torch (he is shown talking to General George C. Marshall and Winston Churchill). President Eisenhower visits 4 continents and meets several leaders. Large crowds welcome him. General Eisenhower prepares for D-Day Invasion of France during World War 2. June 5, 1944: The Allied forces including troops, artillery, equipment, ammunition, aircraft and ships prepared. June 6, 1944: The Allies invade Normandy. Troops wade through the water during D-Day Normandy beach landings, while under enemy fire. German soldiers surrender. May 7, 1945: Nazi General Alfred Jodl signs the unconditional surrender of his government. General Eisenhower returns to the U.S. He receives a hero's welcome in New York during a parade. He visits his hometown in Kansas. Pictures of his family, childhood and college days. Eisenhower on his visits to various countries as President.
United States Relocation Program by War Relocation Authority (WRA) during World War II. Japanese child gives roller skate to mother who packs it. Japanese couple shows paper to guard and leaves relocation center, getting aboard a Trailways bus. Other Japanese relocated greeted at railway station. Map of United States shows relocation (internment) areas. War Relocation Office main door. A Japanese man gives documents to an officer; he reads the papers and makes a call. Japanese-American couple with a young daughter go from house to house attempting to rent apartment. Japanese people in a hostel. A woman plays piano while other women sit and talk. People look at map showing housing availability. Japanese-American couple rents apartment. They are seen happily in their apartment hanging clothes in the closet. Japanese-American woman at grocery store. White woman helps her choose items that are not rationed. She holds a can of peaches. White woman shows Japanese-American woman the point value price card. Japanese-American women and her daughter visit park with white woman and her son. Children play with a toy sailboat at the waters edge. Relocation center kitchen. Japanese-American family sits at the dinner table. Children run in a relocation center. Women sit in a park and talk. Man feeds geese with his children beside water. People walk past fountain. Japanese-American women sit on beach in Chicago. Pedestrians walking on sidewalk outside and under the Lowe's Stillman theater marquee in Chicago. The movie 'Above Suspicion' displayed on marquee. Woman window shopping. Japanese couple sits on porch of house.
As film begins, a Yellow shirt aboard the Aircraft Carrier, USS Coral Sea (CVA -43) clears a U.S. Navy F-4 Phantom fighter aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 15 for takeoff. Steam from the carrier's catapult is seen initially but dissipates as the jet takes off. Several more F-4s are launched and seen from different angles. Closeup of canopy closing as pilot LT. J.G. D.H. Rogers dons his oxygen mask prior to takeoff. An F-4 buzzes past as Rogers' aircraft sits on the port catapult. His aircraft joins up with two others and they fly in a formation toward a shore. Several views of the flight of three in different formations. They peel off and dive in sequence. View of one from behind and underneath showing collection of ordnance under its wings. The F-4s drop clusters of bombs that are seen exploding on the ground. Glimpse of Lt. J.G. Rogers in his cockpit. Aerial view of landing craft speeding though water below. Warships in an invasion fleet seen on the water. Glimpse of troops descending net from a transport ship and boarding a landing craft (Higgins Boat). Back on the Coral Sea, U.S. Marines are seen boarding UH-34D helicopters. Glimpse of landing craft heading toward shore in formation. An F-4 firing rockets. Explosion as rocket strikes a hut on sandy shore. More views of landing craft underway, and an F-4 firing rockets that explode in water along a shore. More Marines leaving the Coral Sea flight deck aboard UH-34D helicopters. More views of landing craft underway. An F-4 dropping bombs that explode on a shore. Marines rushing out of Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTP-5s). Explosions on sand. View from inside LVTP-5 as Marines leave it for the beach. More explosions on sand. Views of LVTPs heading toward shore. Formations of Marine UH-34D helicopters landing and Marines starting to leave them. Aerial view of LVTPs reaching shore and Marines leaving them and assembling on shore. Flight of three F-4s in formation over the USS Coral Sea and then landing on her flight deck. (Note: Although scenes of bombing and amphibious assaults are shown, there is no evidence of enemy actions anywhere in this film, so such scenes likely involve training exercises or some other non-combat activities.)
Large U.S. navy convoy with Battleships at sea, Amphibious DUKWs leave LSM Landing ship in deep water and motor to shore. Some are loaded with 105mm howitzers. Other LSM (Landing Ship Medium) maneuvers to beach and DUKWs exit through the surf to drive away on hard ground..
U.S.Marine artillery units leave beach in DUKWs and proceed to prearranged positions on land. They unload 155mm howitzers using an A frame on one of the DUKWs. Marines unload all the howitzers in the battery and set up communications and instruments.
View of large buildings in Detroit, Michigan. Cars parked around a public park. Pedestrian traffic on the streets. Several buildings along a river beach. View of residential area and houses. Children on the steps of a large building. Boys play baseball. Exterior view of Detroit Public Library. Double Decker bus and automobile traffic on the street. Water truck washes street. Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant workers in plant yard. Truck and streetcar traffic-workers. People in Eastern Market. Boy buying chickens from a open air market stall. Men, some women, and some children approaching the ticket sales booths of Navin Field (home of the Detroit Tigers baseball team, and later renamed Briggs Stadium, and subsequently Tiger Stadium). Close up view of men at ticket booths buying tickets to game.
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