Resumption of liquor sales in Helsinfors (Helsinki) Finland after repeal of Prohibition. Posters of alcohol companies Johnnie Walker, Meukow, Crabbie's and Benedictine on the wall. People standing outside the liquor shops. White Horse Whisky shop is visible. People standing in lines to enter bars and liquor shops. A woman packaging bottles of liquor or wine in brown paper, with racks of bottles stacked behind her. Bar owner opening doors to line of waiting patrons. View of crowded bar while more people wait in line outside to get in. Exterior view with snow falling and people waiting in long lines to buy liquor or go to bars. Next scene shows liquor distillery operations with men loading grain into giant industrial kettle. Wide view of distillery plant operations with many busy workers, some tending kettles and vats, and others carrying barrels. View of a bottling assembly line as workers tap lids onto liquor bottles. Bar filled with patrons waiting to buy drinks. Close up view of bartender's hand pouring a line of drinks from a shaker. Men and women dancing and drinking at bar. Bartender shaking cocktail shaker.
November 25, 1943 13th Air Force, South Pacific,during World War 2. A flight of three P-38s in formation with cumulus clouds behind them. Two are being photographed from the third airplane. The lead P-38 demonstrates ability to improve performance for aerial combat, by jettisoning its long range 250 gallon drop tanks and accelerating ahead of the other aircraft.
Network of pipelines being built for the Nazi German rocket program in Peenemunde, Germany in World War II. Workers join the pipes. Some workers carry the pipes for use. Pipes laying on the ground. Workers weld, cut and paint the pipes. Long rows of pipelines stretch.
Rocket program construction site in Peenemunde Germany during World War 2. Views of sand hills, pipes, huge cranes, three cylindrical towers. Workers join the long pipes together. Men work near under construction building.
July 16, 1945, with President Truman and his party enroute to Berlin Germany, prior to the "Big Three" conference at Potsdam. President Harry S. Truman is seated in right rear of open car. Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes sits next to him in the center, and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, Personal Chief of Staff to the President, is in the left rear seat. U.S. Army Brigadier. An Army Major General stands beside the car speaking to the occupants. Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan (wearing sun glasses), long time friend and aide to the President, steps close to the car. Scene shifts to the President and his party, standing in a moving vehicle, as they review troops of the 2nd Armored Division, standing in front of their tanks, M10 Tank Destroyers, and other armored vehicles. The President and Secretary Byrnes remove their hats and hold them over their hearts,while military officers render hand salutes as they pass the colors. Views from vehicle passing the formation.View from ground of Presidential party at attention with flag of the 17th Battalion displayed. A Lieutenant from the 17th Armored Engineer Battalion reads a citation and Brigadier General John Howell Collier, Commander, 2nd Armored Division, unfurls unit citation ribbon, that President Truman then ties to the Guidon of Company E, 17th Armored Engineer Battalion. As President Truman reportedly described the event in his diary: "We reviewed the Second Armored Division and tied a citation on the guidon of Company E, 17th Armored Engineer Battalion. General Collier, who seemed to know his stuff, put us in a reconnaissance car built with side seats and no top, just like a hoodlum wagon minus the top on a fire truck, with seats and no hose, and we drove slowly down a mile and a half of good soldiers and some millions of dollars' worth of equipment -- which had amply paid its way to Berlin." (World War II period).
German newsreel in World War 2 shows Spanish sailors in boats possibly in North Africa. A sailor talks over telephone. Sailors fire from gun mounted on the boat. Long muzzle of a gun seen. Spanish Soldiers jump from the boats and pull the boat to the beach. Soldiers march on rocky hills. Marching troop of soldiers led by the Spanish officer. Spanish officer salutes the troops.
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